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which was formally opened on the evening of September 22, 

 1921, under the Presidency of Henry Fairfield Osborn, nine 

 years after the First Congress met in London. Preparations 

 for the Congress occupied two years' time. President Osborn 

 also visited Europe with the especial purpose of securing the at- 

 tendance of the leading foreign eugenists. Great Britain was 

 represented by Major Leonard Darwin, who delivered two 

 addresses of such importance that they were quoted all over the 

 United States. France was represented by Dr. Lucien March, 

 Chief of the National Bureau of Statistics, and Dr. Lucien Cuenot, 

 one of her most brilliant biologists; Scandinavia by Dr. Jon 

 Alfred Mj0en, Director of the Winderen Laboratorium of 

 Christiania and delegate of the Norwegian Government, and 

 Belgium was also ably represented by Dr. A. Govserts. Cuba 

 and the Spanish American countries sent able delegates. The 

 United States and Canada were represented with great ability by 

 such leaders as Dr. Charles B. Davenport, Director of the De- 

 partment of Genetics of the Carnegie Institution of Washington; 

 Dr. C. C. Little, also of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, 

 who served as Secretary-General of the Congress; Dr. H. H. 

 Laughlin, Chairman of the remarkable Exhibit of Genetics and 

 Racial Heredity, and Dr. Raymond Pearl of the Johns Hopkins 

 Medical School. All the leading universities and state institu- 

 tions were also well represented. A ladies' Committee, headed 

 by Mrs. E. H. Harriman and by Mrs. Henry Fairfield Osborn, 

 was helpful in securing funds and in the series of receptions. 

 Papers and addresses, numbering more than a hundred, presented 

 to the Congress by the foreign and American delegates, were 

 received with profound attention, and will be collected in a 

 volume to be entitled "Eugenics in the Family, Race and State." 

 The section of the exhibit bearing on immigration was taken to 

 Washington by the Committee on Immigration of Congress, 

 members of which made several visits to the Museum to study 

 the exhibit. 



The press was at first inclmed to treat the work of the Con- 

 gress lightly, confusing it with irrelevant matters, but as the 

 sound and patriotic series of addresses -and papers on Heredity, 

 the Family, the Race and the State, succeeded one another, the 

 influence of the Congress grew and found its way into the news 

 and editorial columns of the entire press of the United States. 



