CONTENTS 



Introduction : Historical Background of the Third International Congress of Eugenics. 

 Dr. Harry H. Laughlin, Eugenics Record Office, Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y 1 



PART I. SCIENTIFIC PAPERS 

 Section I. Addresses and Messages 



1. Presidential Address: The Development of Eugenics. Dr. Charles B. Daven- 



port, President, Third International Congress of Eugenics, Carnegie Institu- 

 tion of Washington, Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y 17 



2. Message to the International Congress of Eugenics. Major Leonard Darwin, 



Sussex, England 23 



3. Response to President's Address. Professor Corrado Gini, Rome, Italy 25 



4. Birth Selection versus Birth Control. Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn, Honor- 



ary Vice President, Third International Congress, Museum of Natural 

 History, New York 29 



Section II. Anthropometric Methods; Tests 



1. On the Need of Checking in Anthropometry. Dr. Charles B. Davenport, Car- 



negie Institution of Washington, Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y 45 



2. Plan for Obtaining an International Technique in Physical Anthropology. 



Professor R. Ruggles Gates, University of London, England 47 



3. Standardizing Measurements of the Living. Dr. Richard H. Post, Smith 



CoUege 48 



4. The Unification of the Anthropological Type of Italians and its Eugenical Effects. 



(English Abstract.) Dr. Marcello Boldrini, Professor of Statistics, Catholic 

 University, Milan, Italy 50 



5. Bloodgroups in Relation to Race in the Dutch East Indies. Dr. H. J. T. Bijlmer, 



Ambon, Dutch East Indies 51 



6. Stability of the Seashore Measures of Musical Talent as shown by Re tests. Dr. 



Hazel Stanton, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, N. Y 54 



7. The Handwriting of Introverts and Extra verts. Dr. June E. Downey, Uni- 



versity of Wyoming 67 



Section III. Race Amalgamation 



8. Control of Immigration. Dr. D. F. Ramos, Havana, Cuba 79 



9. The Eurasian Community as a Eugenic Problem. Henry E. Roseboom and 



Cedric Dover, Bangalore, India 87 



10. Volkstumsverbreitung und ihre Ursachen. (Racial Distribution and its Causes.) 



Dr. Wilhelm Pessler, Hannover, Germany 95 



11. Harmonic Types among Western European Crania. Ruth S. Wallis, Hamline 



University, St. Paul, Minnesota 99 



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