The Eugenics Record Office 



Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, N. Y. 



ESTABLISHED in connection with the 

 Eugenics Section gf the American Breed- 

 ers Association in 1910, this office aims to 

 fill the need of a clearing-house for data concern- 

 ing "blood lines" and family traits in America. It 

 is accumulating and studying records of physical 

 and mental characteristics of human families to 

 the end that the people may be better advised 

 as to fit and unfit marriages. It issues blank 

 schedules (sent on application) for the use of 

 those who wish to preserve a record of their 

 family histories. 



The Eugenics Section and its Record Office 

 are a development from the former committee on 

 Eugenics, comprising well-known students of 

 heredity and humanists; among others Alexan- 

 der Graham Bell, Washington, D. C; Luther 

 Burbank, Santa Rosa, Cal.; W. E. Castle, Har- 

 vard University; C. R. Henderson, University of 

 Chicago; Adolf Meyer, Johns Hopkins University; 

 J. Arthur Thomson, University of Aberdeen; 

 H. J. ^A/'ebber, Cornell University; Frederick A. 

 Woods, Harvard Medical School. The work 

 of the Record Office is aided by the advice of 

 a number of technical committees. 



The chairman of the Section is David Starr 

 Jordan; its secretary is C. B. Davenport. The 

 superintendent of the Eugenics Record Office is 

 H. H. Laughlin, Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y., to 

 whom correspondence may be addressed. 



