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Count Yanagisawa, a member of our Committee had had them undertake at 

 my request. 



Meanwhile Prof. Hunt has published in the series of monographs of the 

 Eugenics Research Association an extended memoir entitled "Some Bio- 

 logical Aspects of War" and Dr. L'Eltore's "Contributi alio studio degli 

 effetti selettivi sulle persone dal punto di vista dell'eugenica," dealing with 

 the selective influence exerted by war among the students of the Universities 

 and other institutions of higher learning of Rome, Genoa, and Pisa, has 

 appeared in the review "Genesis," official organ of the Italian Federation of 

 Eugenics. At the Italian Ministry of War a special bureau has been charged 

 with the compilation of statistical results concerning the characteristics of 

 service-men who died in the war many of which characteristics may be of 

 interest from a eugenic standpoint. At the present time, the work has been 

 completed as regards the regions of Abbruzzi, Basilicata, Campania, Emilia, 

 Latium, Liguria, and, partly, Lombardy. 



President Davenport's efforts to secure a more substantial financial back- 

 ing for the work of the Committee having been unsuccessful, the committee 

 can only count upon the $1000 offered by Prof. Irving Fisher, of which $50 

 has already been expended for the preparation of a bibliography. The whole 

 amount, of course, is quite insufficient to cover even a portion of the expenses 

 entailed by the necessary researches. Consequently, it has been set aside 

 to pay for the cost of printing, and the committee members have been asked 

 to do their work gratuitously. Under these conditions, some of our col- 

 leagues have declared themselves unable to conduct their researches, while 

 others, apparently owing to the same reason, have been obliged to discon- 

 tinue theirs. Furthermore, it is known that in several countries the researches 

 undertaken by the ministries of war have been discontinued, while in other 

 countries they have been suspended, or at least postponed on account of the 

 present economic crisis. The ever decreasing number of replies which I 

 have received from members of the Committee shows clearly that it is not 

 profitable to prolong further the period of preparation, and that the Com- 

 mittee ought to conclude its work on the basis of the data gathered and 

 already at its disposal. Inspired with this aim, it is my intention to ask the 

 members of the Committee to be so good as to submit at a given time (for 

 example, July, 1935), all the material they have gathered and can further 

 gather on the subject, in order that we may proceed to submit a final report. 

 To this report, a bibliography should be appended, which should bring up 

 to date and complete the one already prepared. 



Meanwhile, I have the honor of giving a resume of the results contained in 

 the memoirs submitted either directly to the Committee (by Dr. Szel), to 



