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name was formally presented to the President. 

 In his letter of resignation, Dr. Cottrell said: 



I hereby tender you my resignation as director 

 of the Bureau of Mines, to take effeot January 1, 

 1921. 



In so doing, may I recall to your mind that, in 

 accepting this position upon the resignation of 

 Director Manning last June, I explained to the 

 secretary of the interior that I had previously made 

 all my plans to resign from the position I then 

 occupied as assistant director and to give my un- 

 divided attention to the position of chairman of 

 the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Technol- 

 ogy of the National Eesearch Council, which I had 

 accepted as successor to Professor W. D. Bancroft, 

 who was retiring July first. 



I accepted appointment as director of the Bureau 

 of Mines on the understanding with Secretary 

 Payne that I would continue therein until an avail- 

 able successor should be found who was thoroughly 

 acceptable to him and to the mining industry. 



The time having now arrived when Secretary 

 Payne is ready to recommend a successor, I am 

 placing my resignation in his hands for transmittal 

 to you. 



It is with the pleasantest recollections that I 

 look back over my decade of service in various 

 capacities within the bureau, and as the greater 

 part of this time has fallen within your own ad- 

 ministration, it gives me particular pleasure to tell 

 you of the uniform courtesy and high standard of 

 public service which I have always encountered in 

 my contact with both associates and superiors 

 throughout the whole department. 



It would be with very deep feelings of personal 

 regret that I should take the present step were it 

 not that the position in the Eesearch Council will 

 still permit me to cooperate very closely with those 

 particular aspects of the bureau's work for which 

 I feel myself best fitted. 



At the same time Secretary Payne handed 

 to the President the appointment of H. Foster 

 Bain, of California, as successor to Dr. Cot- 

 trell. 



Mr. Bain was educated and trained as a geol- 

 ogist and mining engineer. He was one of 

 Herbert Hoover's assistants in London on the 

 Belgian relief work during the war. Before 

 that he was editor of the Mining and Scientific 

 Press of San Francisco, Calif., and later the 

 editor of the Mining Magazine of London, 



England. He made some important mining 

 investigations in south and central Africa and 

 later undertook similar investigations in 

 China. At one time he was a mine operator 

 in Colorado and once was connected with the 

 United States Geological Survey. Subse- 

 quently, he was the first director of the Geo- 

 logical Survey of Illinois. For a time during 

 the war Mr. Bain was assistant director of 

 the United States Bureau of Mines, following 

 up production and manufacture of metal 

 products, explosives, and other chemical sub- 

 stances for war purposes. At the close of the 

 war Mr. Bain returned to private life. Mr. 

 Bain was born at Seymour, Indiana. Gradu- 

 ating from Moore's Hill College, Indiana, in 

 1890, he spent two years at Johns Hopkins 

 University and later received his doctor's de- 

 gree from the University of Chicago. 



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INTERNATIONAL EUGENICS CONGRESS 



In 1912 there was held in London, under 

 the auspices of the Eugenics Education So- 

 ciety, an International Eugenics Congress. 

 A second congress was planned to be held in 

 liTew York City in 1915 but, on accoimt of 

 the war, plans for the congress were aban- 

 doned. In the autumn of 1919, at a meet- 

 ing of the International Committee of Eu- 

 genics held in London, it was agreed to hold 

 the second International Congress in New 

 York City in 1921. A general committee to 

 arrange for this congress was selected by the 

 National Eesearch Council in the spring of 

 1920, and it is now announced that the pre- 

 liminary announcement of the Second Inter- 

 national Congress of Eugenics will be held in 

 New York City, September 22-28, 1921. 



Of this Congress Dr. Alexander Graham 

 Bell is honorary president; Dr. Henry Fair- 

 field Osbom, president; Mr. Madison Grant, 

 treasurer; Mrs. C. Neville Rolfe (Mrs. Sybil 

 G«tto) honorary secretary; and Dr. C. C. 

 Little, secretary-general. The vice-presidents 

 include Dr. Cesare Arton, Cagliari Italy; Dr. 

 Kristine Bonnevie, Institute for Heredity In- 

 vestigation, University of Christiania, Nor- 

 way; Major Leonard Darwin, London; Dr. 

 V. Delfino Buenos Aires; Dr. E. M. East, 



