8 HARRY H. LAUGHLIN 



and an applied science; and to seek to emphasize the fact that eugenics is 

 concerned primarily with racial and family-stock quality in the turn-over 

 of population from generation to generation. Dr. Harry H. Laughlin of 

 the Carnegie Institution of Washington was selected chairman of the 

 exhibits committee. 



THIRD CONGRESS, NEW YORK CITY, 1932 



The Third International Congress of Eugenics was held in New York 

 City August 21st to 23d, 1932. 



VISIT TO COLD SPRING HARBOR 



On Sunday, August 21st, most of the delegates having arrived in New 

 York City, the group made an automobile excursion thirty miles eastward 

 on Long Island to Cold Spring Harbor, where they were the guests of the 

 Department of Genetics of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. This 

 Department comprises the Station for Experimental Evolution and the 

 Eugenics Record Office. By means of prepared demonstrations, the visitors 

 were shown the research work of the several investigators. The neighbor- 

 ing friends of the Institution entertained the guests for luncheon, and they 

 were served tea on the grounds of the Eugenics Record Office. About 200 

 visitors enjoyed the demonstrations and participated in the tea. The 

 party returned to New York City by automobile about dusk. 



TENTH FEDERATION MEETING, NEW YORK CITY, 1932 



Held in the Members' Room of the American Museum of Natural History, 

 New York, Monday, August 23, 1932 



First Session 1:30 P.M. 



Present: Dr. C. B. Davenport, president, in the chair; Dr. Frets, Dr. 

 Bijlmar, Mrs. Hodson. The minutes of the last meeting were taken as 

 read, approved, and signed. 



Elections: The president proposed the election of the two English 

 organizations standing for membership with a view to admitting represent- 

 atives present in New York to the further business meeting. The Depart- 

 ment of Animal Genetics in the University of Edinburgh had, the secretary 

 announced, through its Director, Professor F. E. A. Crew, written to ask 

 for membership, Professor Crew himself standing as representative member. 

 The election of this organization and of Professor Crew was put from the 

 chair and voted without dissent. 



The secretary reported that Professor R. Ruggles Gates, now a member of 



