PLAN PGR THE ESTABLISHMENT OP THE PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL 
DEPARTMENT UNDER THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 
To establish under the Smithsonian Institution in the 
City of Washington, a Fund to be known as the Physical Anthro- 
pological Fund with requisite laboratory facilities, the 
general purpose of which shall be a comprehensive biological 
study of the many and diversified racial elements of the Ameri- 
can nation, and the application of the results to promoting 
the welfare of the nation. 
Among the particular lines of work which should be 
pursued are the following: 
1. A determination of the character and potentiality 
of the physical, intellectual and social elements which the 
nation should control, direct, and assimilate. 
,2. A determination of the results of the intermingling 
of the white, black, and other races, on physical development, 
longevity, fecundity, vigor, and liability to disease, as well 
as on the intellectual and social attributes, and an elucidation 
of the operation of heredity and the effects of changing social 
and climatic conditions, so that a firm base of knowledge may 
be provided for those who are to frame and administer laws re- 
lating to these objects, and those who are to direct the policy 
of the thousands of institutions that deal directly or indirectly 
with the physical and intellectual and social welfare of the 
nation. 
