HISTORIC BACKGROUND OF THIRD CONGRESS 5 



Congress. This Committee, under the leadership of Professor Irving Fisher 

 of Yale University, finally developed into the American Eugenics Society. 

 The Executive Committee of the Congress appointed a Publication 

 Committee, of which Dr. Charles B. Davenport was chairman and Dr. 

 Harry H. Laughlin secretary. The following publications about the 

 Congress were issued: Scientific papers presented to the Congress. Volume 

 I, "Eugenics, Genetics and the Family"; Volume II, "Eugenics in Race and 

 State"; abstracts of scientific papers, and a Book of Exhibits. 



THIRD INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE MEETING, NEW YORK CITY, 1921 



The officers of the International Eugenics Commission, nominated and 

 elected by the Second International Congress of Eugenics, to hold office 

 until their successors should be installed by the Third Congress, were: 

 Chairman, Major Leonard Darwin, London, England; Vice Chairman, 

 Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn, New York City; Secretary, Dr. Albert 

 Govaerts, Bruxelles, Belgium. These officers and other members of the 

 national committee present, assembled as the Third International Com- 

 mittee, at the American Museum of Natural History, New York City, 

 September 28th. 



FIRST FEDERATION MEETING, BRUXELLES, 1922 



On the 7th and 9th of October, 1922, the International Commission of 

 Eugenics met at the rooms, Maison des Medicins, Bruxelles, of the Societe 

 Beige d'Eugenique. At this meeting it was voted unanimously to invite 

 German delegates to the Commission. Decision was made provisionally 

 to hold the next meeting of the Commission at Lund, Sweden, and the next 

 congress in 1924 at Prague, contingent upon the possibility of making appro- 

 priate arrangements for the meetings. 



SECOND FEDERATION MEETING, LUND, 1923 



The Mendelian Society of Lund, Sweden, invited the Commission to hold 

 its 1923 meeting at Lund in September. This meeting was held in the 

 rooms of the Medical Faculty of the University of Lund on the 1st and 3d 

 of September, 1923. Representatives from the United States, Denmark, 

 Norway, Sweden, Holland, and Great Britain were present. Considera- 

 tion was given to a proposal by Professor Gini that the Commission interest 

 itself in a Biblioteque International d'Eugenique, in which the chief re- 

 searches concerning genetics and eugenics might be pub fished; the proposal 

 of Dr. Van Herwerden that an international terminology for references to 

 publications and for the abbreviations in pedigree charts met with general 



