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discovery, invention, organization, direction, statesmanship, inspiration, 

 education, writing, example and interpretation. 



Its criteria of worth lie in its importance, extent, advance, durability, 

 power and truth. It may be found in the following fields: 



(1) Pure Science — Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy, Geology 



(2) Biological Science — Medicine, Anthropology, Biology, Psychology 



(3) Government — Diplomacy, Law 



(4) Literature, Education — Press, Religion, Ethics, Sociology, Philosophy 



(5) Business, Invention, Transportation, Communication 



(6) Organization 



(7) Exploration 



(8) Other Categories 



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The results of their labors were received and recorded, and there has been 

 determined the consensus of opinion as to the ten men in America greatest 

 in service in 1931. 



This list will not be announced until it appears that some good service 

 will be rendered thereby. The reticence which so commonly accompanies 

 true greatness should be respected, and especially when these men, who 

 in the main are still intensely occupied with their huge labors, view with 

 extreme reluctance anything which even momentarily deflects them from 

 their course of action. 



To them it has seemed at first a very strange request, but when the magni- 

 tude of the issues involved is made clear , — and the fact that no one in the 

 world except themselves can furnish the data which may be of such enor- 

 mous service to mankind, — willingness to cooperate has become the natural 

 and indeed a properly expected result. 



All these factors have been taken into consideration in developing the 

 pattern of the Aristogenic Record. 



In examining the Byrd Antarctic Expedition from the medical and other 

 scientific standpoints before they started for the South, the same basic 

 idea was followed as an exploratory research, and prominent people have 

 been examined from time to time during the last decade. 



The first preliminary form of survey is given below. Since its original 

 outline it has been under constant revision and development, and indeed 

 this must always be the case. Therefore this survey form and its several 

 methods are not at present set forth as typical or final. 



THE ARISTOGENIC SURVEY 



1. Record of Ancestry (family tree) with noteworthy data. 



2. Eugenic record (Carnegie Institute form) including brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles 



and children. 



3. Data on noteworthy relatives. 



