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approval. The constitution and rules of the Commission were amended 

 and codified. 



THIRD FEDERATION MEETING, MILAN, 1924 



At Milan, Italy, September 20th to 22d, 1924, in the Sala Pasta della 

 Societa del Giardino, the International Eugenics Commission held its next 

 meeting. Minutes of the Lund meeting were read and passed and state- 

 ments of the accounts of the Secretary-Treasurer were circulated and 

 approved. 



FOURTH FEDERATION MEETING, LONDON, 1925 



At the 1925 meeting, held in the rooms of the Royal Society, London, the 

 Commission (previously changed from Committee to Commission) voted 

 to change its name to the "International Federation of Eugenic Organiza- 

 tions." A resolution was also adopted to make the meetings of the Federa- 

 tion scientific eugenical conferences in addition to sessions for transacting 

 business. This permitted the host country to develop the conference into 

 the dignity of an international congress and exhibit. Valuable scientific 

 reports were presented at this meeting, in addition to its purely business 

 aspects. 



FIFTH FEDERATION MEETING, PARIS, 1926 



At the meeting of the Federation held in Paris, June 2nd and 3rd, 1926, 

 the proposal of the International League of the Red Cross that the Federa- 

 tion cooperate with them and make its headquarters at the League head- 

 quarters, 2 Avenue Valasquez, was adopted with some modifications. 

 Committee reports were presented, and many interesting papers were 

 read. 



SIXTH FEDERATION MEETING, AMSTERDAM, 1927 



The Federation duly assembled at the Colonial Institute at Amsterdam, 

 September 20th to 23rd, 1927. Major Leonard Darwin, having served as 

 President of the Federation since its inception as a National Committee, re- 

 tired, and Dr. Charles B. Davenport was duly elected President. The 

 Federation then unanimously elected Major Darwin as Honorary President. 



The meeting provided for a Research Committee on Race Mixture and 

 for collaboration with the proposed Geneva Conference on World Population 

 Problems. It provided also for a Committee on the Eugenic and Dysgenic 

 Effects of War. A number of scientific papers were presented and the 

 Conference of the Federation was held jointly with the section of Heredity 

 of Man and Eugenics of the Anthropological Congress, which assembled in 

 the Colonial Institute at Amsterdam on September 22nd . 



