I HARRY H. LAUGHLIN 



eugenicists from many different countries met to discuss the progress made 

 in their several nations, in both pure and applied science, and for indicating 

 the most profitable lines of future eugenical research and practical endeavor. 



A number of interesting and able papers were presented. English, 

 French, German and Italian were on an equal footing, and abstracts of 

 papers were printed in these several languages. 



The First International Eugenics Congress, besides offering the oppor- 

 tunity to interchange ideas among individuals from widely separated 

 countries, created a wide-spread interest in eugenics in the public at large. 



Publications of the Congress were: Volume I, "Problems in Eugenics," 

 which contained the scientific papers presented to the Congress, and 

 Volume II, the proceedings of the Congress. 



Under the direction of the Exhibition Committee, studies in different 

 types of heredity were shown, and a Catalogue of the Exhibition was 

 published. 



INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF EUGENIC ORGANIZATIONS 



At this point the relationship between the International Federation of 

 Eugenic Organizations and the International Eugenic Congresses should 

 be explained. The Federation is the continuous body which holds busi- 

 ness and scientific meetings in different countries every one or two years, 

 and which provides for holding congresses and exhibits and attends to other 

 international business for the advancement of eugenics. Up to the present 

 time there have been three Congresses and ten meetings of the Federation. 



The foundation for permanent international organization was well laid 

 by the First Congress, which asked various groups of gentlemen in different 

 countries to form themselves into consultative committees, and each of 

 these committees was asked to nominate four members to an Executive 

 Committee, which sat in London at the opening of the Congress. Through 

 the passing of resolutions by the Congress, this Executive Committee 

 became the International Committee. Into the hands of this Committee 

 was placed the responsibility for organizing the next Congress and making 

 arrangements as to general policy. Henceforth the public could learn that 

 those branches of science which deal with family-stocks and breed improve- 

 ment in the several races and had been organized and integrated into a 

 definite science. 



FIRST INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE MEETING, PARIS, 1913 



The Permanent International Eugenics Committee, thus provided by 

 the First Congress, met in Paris in 1913, and there made plans to meet in 



