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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. LIV. No. 1403 



Irving Ksher, Chairman, of Yale University, 



Charles B. Davenport, Viee-Chairman, of the Car- 

 negie Institution of Washington, Cold Spring 

 Harbor, N. Y., 



Harry Olson, Judge of the Municipal Courts of 

 Chicago, Illinois, 



Madison Grant, Chairman of the New York Zoo- 

 logical Society, 



C. C. Little, Secretary, of New York, Secretary of 

 the Second Eugenics Congress. 



We shall thus have different sections of the coun- 

 try well represented; we shall profit by the legisla- 

 tive experience of Mr. Grant and Judge Olson and 

 the expert scientific knowledge of Drs. Davenport 

 and Little. As soon as the Eugenics Exhibit closes 

 at the American Museum, the offices may be trans- 

 ferred to the American Eugenics Eecord Office at 

 Cold Spring Harbor. 



The present executive committee will disband as 

 soon as the costs of the Congress are adjusted and 

 the publication of the volume of papers and pro- 

 ceedings is arranged for. 



I have appointed the following Committee on 

 Publication of the Proceedings of the Second Inter- 

 national Congress: 



Charles B. Davenport, Chairman, 



Clark Wissler, American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory, 



H. H. Laughlin, American Eugenics Record Office, 

 Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y., 



Henry Fairfield Osborn, ex-officio. 



It is estimated that the publication will cost be- 

 tween $5,000 and $10,000, and I am writing to each 

 of the great Foundations, namely, Carnegie, Rocke- 

 feller, and Commonwealth, asking for assistance, as 

 the executive committee stiU has to raise a consider- 

 able sum to cover the expenses of the Congress. 



According to the above terms it is proposed 

 to actively disseminate the very valuable in- 

 formation contained in the seventy scienti- 

 fic papers and addresses presented to the con- 

 gress by leading experts, also to provide for 

 the continuation of the eugenics propaganda 

 throughout the country. The writer retires 

 from further active participation in this 

 work in order to resume other duties. All 

 inquiries should be addressed either to the 

 Chairman, Vice-Chairman, or Secretary of 

 the ad interim, committee. 



Henry Fairfield Osborn, 

 President, Second International 



Congress of Eugenics 

 New York, 

 October, 1921 



SAMUEL STOCKTON VOORHEES 



On the evening of September 23, at Portland, 

 Maine, died Samuel Stockton Voorhees, Engi- 

 neer Chemist of the Bureau of Standards, in 

 the fifty-fifth year of his age. To a host of 

 friends his passing brings personal sorrow be- 

 cause of loss of one endeared to them by his 

 genial and manly qualities and deep regret that 

 the chemical profession should be prematurely 

 deprived of the services of a man so well in- 

 formed and broadminded, whose conduct was 

 always guided by high ideals. 



Voorhees was born at Springfield, Ohio, 

 January 15, 1867, his parents, of old American 

 stock, being John Hunn and Elizabeth Aston' 

 (Warder) Voorhees. He studied at Lehigh 

 University, in the class of 1888 without gradu- 

 ating and then took a special course in chem- 

 istry at Columbian (now George Washington) 

 University, in Washington, D. C He married 

 in 1895 Laura Toucey Kase, of Danville, Pa., 

 who with three daughters survive. 



His first professional services were with the 

 Cambria Iron Company, at Johnstown, Pa., 

 and the Pennsylvania Railroad, at Altoona, Pa. 

 In the employ of the latter he had the good 

 fortune to be associated with the lamented Dr. 

 Charles B. Dudley, a past president of the 

 American Chemical Society, whom he always 

 held in grateful remembrance. He there also 

 formed lasting acquaintance with men who 

 have risen to prominence in the railroad world. 

 It was with two of them and other friends that 

 he undertook the vacation trip to the north 

 woods of Maine, where an illness from which 

 he had long suiiered developed to such an ex- 

 tent that he had to be removed under great 

 difficulties to a hospital in Portland, where 

 within a week he underwent two operations, 

 from the second of which he was unable to 

 rally. 



Voorhees's railroad experience was continued 

 during 1896 to 1899 with the Southern Railway 

 Company at Washington, D. C, and Alexan- 

 dria, Va., and from 1899 to 1901 with the New 

 York Central and Hudson River Railroad, at 

 Albany, N". Y. 



The fifteen years of practical knowledge 

 acquired in industrial fields fitted him admi- 



