SCIENCE 



Friday, October 7, 1921 



The Second International Congress of Eu- 

 genics: Address of Welcome: Dr. Henet 

 Paiepield Osbokn 311 



The Aims and Methods of Eugenical Societies: 

 Major Leonard Darwin 313 



Frederick Morton Chamberlain: G. Dallas 

 Hanna 323 



Scientific Events: 



Movement of the Population in the German 

 Empire; Accidents due to Eye Defects; The 

 Tale Forest School; The American Puhlio 

 Sealtli Association 324 



Scientific Notes and News 326 



University and Educational Neios 329 



Discussion and Correspondence: 



The Grand Aurora of September, 1931 : 

 Professor Charles F. Brooks. The Coc- 

 cidai of Ceylon: Dr. G. P. Perkis. A Method 

 of Protecting Microscopic Sections from Me- 

 chanical Injury: Professor J. A. Long... 329 



Qtiotations : 



The British Association 331 



Scientific BooTcs: — 



Keen's Surgery: Dr. Stuart McGuire 332 



Special Articles: 



A New Graphic Analytic Method: Dr. R. 

 VON HUHN 334 



The American Philosophical Society 335 



MSS. intended for publication and books, etc., intended for 

 review should be sent to The Editor of Science, Garrison-on- 

 Hudson, N. Y. 



THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CON- 

 GRESS OF EUGENICS 

 ADDRESS OF WELCOME 



I DOUBT if there has ever been a moment ire 

 the vsrorld's history when an international con- 

 ference on race character and betterment has 

 been more important than the present. Eu- 

 rope, in patriotic self-sacrifice on both sides- 

 of the World War, has lost much of the- 

 heritage of centuries of civilization which 

 never can be regained. In certain parts of 

 Europe the worst elements of society have 

 gained the ascendancy and threaten the de- 

 struction of the best. At this moment we 

 welcome the sound and highly trained judg- 

 ment of Major Leonard Darwin, leader of the 

 eugenics movement in Great Britain; of Dr. 

 Lueien March, the leading statistical author- 

 ity of France, also leader in the eugenics 

 movement and senior representative of the 

 eugenics movement there; of Dr. Lueien 

 Cuenot, foremost student of the science of 

 heredity in France; of Dr. G. V. de Lapouge 

 of France, the leading authority on racial an- 

 thropology and earnest exponent of practical 

 eugenic measures by the government. Dr. 

 Jon Alfred Mj0en of Norway is the leader in 

 the vigorous movement of race hygiene in 

 Scandinavia. Contributions are welcomed 

 from other representatives of Great Britain, 

 of France, of Italy, of the new Republic of 

 Czecho-Slovakia, of our sister Republic of 

 Cuba, and of South and Central America. 

 The leading students of heredity, of statis- 

 tics, of anthropology, and of eugenics in the 

 United States are here to welcome their con- 

 freres from abroad. 



To each of the countries of the world, 

 racial betterment presents a different aspect. 

 To the five countries most closely engaged 

 in the recent fratricidal conflict, the financial 

 and economic losses of which we hear so much 

 are as nothing compared with the spiritual. 



