EUGENICS RECORD OFFICE

EuGENicAL News

Volume I

1916

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VOL. I. JANUARY, 1916. NO.l.

FOREV/ORD. that have been, held; eugenical laws

The Eugenics Record Office has now passed by different states; other at-
trained over one hundred eugenical empts at social control of the selec-

field-workers, of whom at least ion of mates, including the growth of

active social .tate institutions, factsas to differen-
a third are still in
ial fecundity, facts as to the control
and eugenical work. Also the in-
)f the death rate of different social
vestigation of family histories is
being made by an increasing lasses and of natioflfl^f imi^iigration
number of other agencies. As these and emigration.; We should be glad to
record briefly all advances in the
studies are frequently made in the
same state they sometimes cover the ''nowledge Of human
heredity, and
same territory and even the same shall endeavor give notice* of
to
eugenical ptilDlications, including gen-
families. Thus unnecessary expense
is incurred by doing work a second
ealogical worksandtown histories. . In
time that has already been done. fact, this paper seeW to sprve eugen-

Also, eugenical field-workers in one

ical interests as aeugenics
gerfiferal

territory often wish to find out about

newspaper. Whether it succeeds or
not in this ideal will depend upon the
families or branches of a family who
are in another territory. Indeed, in support that it is able to deserve.
many ways the need of a medium of
intercommunication between eugen- GREETING.
Ists has long been felt and this need With number of what we
this first
the present periodical is intended to become a welcome visitor to
trust'will
supply. our many friends and a means of keep-
We begin in an unpretentious way ing us all in closer touch with each
as a small newspaper. Our success others' interests, the Eugenics Record
will depend largely upon the interest Office would extend the most cordial
that eugenists take in sending us items greetings of the season. To those
of news. Especially is it important whom we have had the privilege of
that we should know of all agencies training in some degree for this im-
that are making careful studies of portant work, as well as also to
family histories. those various institutions and their
It is proposed to include the follow- managers who have found occasion to
ing fields within our scope: news of make use of our field-workers we
the Eugenics Record Office, including would offer the greetings of a close
resident and field staff; news of "ellowship. To those voluntary col-
eugenical field-workers over the coun- laborators whose hearty co-operation
try, where they are and the sort of has contributed so largely to the ac-
work they are doing; record of the lo- cumulation of the invaluable records
calities in which family history work of this Office we would pledge anew
has been more or less systematically our careful preservation of the results
done; other eugenical news both do- of their labors. To one and all we ex-
mestic and foreign, including notices tend a most hearty MERRY CHRIST-
of future meting:s and reports of those MAS and A HAPPY NEW
YJSAJEL
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EUQENiCAL NEWS Y., where he is associated with Prof.

Published bi-monthly by the J. McK. Cattell. He expects to con-
EUGENICS RECORD OFFICE tinue his researches on the inheritance
Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, N. Y. of hare-lip and cleft palate.
Subscription twenty-five cents for six Miss Edith S. Atwood, who has been
numbers postage free in the United
employed for the past eight months in
States and island possessions; also in
Canada. Mexico, Cuba, and Canal Zone. assisting Mr. H. H. Laughlin in compil-
In all other countries add five cents for^ ing the "Directory of State Institu-
postage. tions for the Socially Inadequate," is
now connected with the Indiana Girls'
JANUARY 1, 1916. School at Indianapolis, Ind.

NEW APPOINTMENTS.
THE EUGENICS RECORD OFFICE.
Newappointments to positions as
On October first Mr. H. H. Laughlin, Eugenical Field-workers in connec-
superiptendent of the offioe, began a tion with the Record Office for a year
nine months* leave of absence, in or- or less, beginning October first, have
der to do graduate work at Princeton been made as follows:
University. Dr. Howard J. Banker is Dr. Harry W. Crane is on leave of
acting superintendent in his absence. absence from Ohio State University
Dr. Arthur H. Estabrook has started for six months of work, under the
upon an investigation of the "Ishmael- Arkansas Commission for the Feeble-
ites," continuing the history that the minded. His address is Little Rock,
Rev. Oscar C. McCulloch of the Char- Ark., care of the Commission.
ity Organization Society, Indianapolis, Mr. Karl M. Cowdery is connected
Ind., traced to 1888. Unfortunately with the Whittier State School at
most of Mr. McCulloch's original data Whittier, California, where a Depart-
were destroyed, but the outline pedi- ment of Research has been established
grees of his families are available, and under the direction of Professor J.
the two agents who did the field work Harold Williams.
are living and one of them has been Miss Florence Armstrong is work-
able to give much assistance. Exten- ing with the Gowanda State Hospital
sive studies on this family have al- for the Insane at Collins, N. Y.
ready been undertaken by this Office Miss Edith M. Douglass is engaged
in 1911 through Mary Ogden Dranga, under the direction of the Connecticut
now Mrs. Charles F. F. Campbell, of Society for Social Hygiene in work at
Columbus, Ohio. the Connecticut School for Imbeciles
Numerous persons interested In the at Lakeville, Conn.
Investigation of the "Jukes" of to-day Mr. Joseph F. Gould is engaged in a
will be glad to learn that Dr. Esta- study of the inheritance of traits in
brook has completed the manuscript hybrids between whites and other
of his report on this subject and that races. He is at present working on
it is now ready for the printer. the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation
Mr. William F. Blades, who has been and is eighteen miles from his post of-
connected with this Office in the capac- fice, which is Elbowoods, N. Dak. Be-
ity of Editorial Secretary for several tween primitive living and wintry
years, has accepted an editorial posi- weather he is reporting a strenuous
tion with the Science Press and has experience, but is having much suc-
taken up his residence at Garrison, N. cess in his work.
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FIELD-WORKERS' RETURNS. Miss Elizabeth P. Moore is Social
During the months of October and Work Secretary at the Children's
November the following records have Home and Day Nursery, 20 Longley
been added to our files by the several Building, Woonsocket, R. I.
field-workers named: Miss Virginia R. Brown is teaching
Miss Clara P. Pond has turned in 17 biology in the Toledo High School,
pages of material collected chiefly in Toledo, Ohio.
Wabash and Jasper counties, Indiana. Miss Edna C. Bryner is Special
Mrs. Anna M. Finlayson has re- Agent of the Division of Education of
ported 263 pages collected i^ western the Russel Sage Foundation and is at
and northwestern Pennsylvania, chief- present working on the Industrial
ly in Mercer, Clarion, Armstrong, Jef- Education Survey staff of the Cleve-
ferson, Clearfield, and Elk counties. land Foundation. Her address is 612
Miss Elizabeth Greene reported 126 St. Claire Ave. E., Cleveland, Ohio.

pages collected in Baltimore, Md., and Miss Marion Collins is Investigator

vicinity. for the State Board of Charities of
Miss Helen Martin has reported 59 New York, having its office in The
pages of single spaced notes, equiv- Capitol, Albany, N. Y. Her home ad-
alent to somewhat over 100 pages of dress is Hagaman, N. Y.
the usual double spaced form, col- Mrs. Mary Dranga Campbell is en-
lected mostly in Brooklyn, N. Y. gaged with her husband, Prof. Charles
Miss Florence Armstrong has re- F. F. Campbell, in the publishing of
ported 13 pages of material gathered the "Outlook for the Blind," of which
in Cattaraugus and Allegany coun- he is Editor-in-Chief. She continues
ties,N. Y. her interest in eugenics. Her address
Mr. Jay B. D. Lattin, who has closed is 962 Franklin Ave., Columbus, Ohio.

his work with the Record Office, Amey B. Eaton is now Mrs. Frank
turned over to our care about 42 in- D. Watson. Her husband. Dr. Frank
complete studies of inmates of Sing D. Watson, is Professor of Social Work
Sing prison. at Haverford College, Pa. They have
Miss Edith Douglass has sent in 23 two sons. Mrs. Watson is continuing
pages of data, about half of which is graduate work in Psychology and So-
single ' spaced, collected chiefly in cial Research and is chairman of the
Hartford, Conn., and vicinity. Philadelphia Conference on Illegiti-
Miss Edith S. Atwood has forwarded macy.
45 pages of records, collected chiefly Dr. WOhelmina Key is at State In-
in Shelby and Rush counties, Indiana. stitution, Polk, Pa., where she is en-
Dr. Harry W. Crane has reported 46 gaged in th-e psychological analysis of
pages of material, collected in Greene inmates with a view of determining
and Clay counties, Arkansas. the training they should individually
receive.
EUGENICS' FIELD WORKERS. Ruth Lawton connected with the
is
We give below the present addresses Boston Aid Society, 43
Children's
and occupations of former field- Charity Building, Boston, Mass.
workers of the Eugenics Record Office
so far as known. Doubtless there are GENERAL NEWS.
a number of errors. Will readers The famous biologist. Professor
please a^ist us to correct the list and Theodor Boveri, died at Wurzburg
bring it down to date. October 15, in his fifty-thixd year. Dr.
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Boveri contributed greatly to our Charles B. Davenport. It is an inter-

knowledge of the germ-plasm, as the SGting discussion as to whence we get
principal vehicle of heredity. our "tantrums." It contains 36 pages.
Emily W, Woods, one of the mem- Including 11 figures, and the price has
bers of the Eugenics Class for 1915, been fixed at 15 cents.
died about the middle of October. No Bulletin No. 14 of the Eugenics
particulars of her death have been re- Record Office was issued in November.
ceived, except that she was operated It deals with "Hereditary Fragility of
on for appendicitis at a hospital and B ne," a condition of brittle bones
lived only about a week afterward. known as Osteopsathyrosis. It is by
Miss Elizabeth P. Moore writes that Dr. H. S. Conard of Grinnell College,
Mr. Prentiss Murphy gave a paper on Iowa, and Charles B. Davenport. It
Children's Society Work in Bristol, R. is shown that the factor that makes

1., in which he made the statement for the condition is inherited as a dom-
that sociological reports are of very inant trait.
little value without accompanying "How to Live" is the title of a book
eugenic charts. written by Prof. Irvirg Fisher and Dr.
The Illinois Civil Service Commis- Elmer L. Fisk, issued by the Life Ex-
sion held a series of examinations for tension Institute. There is a chapter
"Home Visitors," "salary in the office on "Eugenics" and kind v/ords are
of the Board of Administration $75 to Uspoken about the Eugenics Record
$100 a month; in the State Institu- Office.
tions $60 to $75 a month with full "Educational Hygiene from the Pre-
maintenance. Cpen to men and school Period to the University" is th^
women over 25." The examinations title of a book edited by Louis W.
were open only to residents of the Rap, Professor of Education, Penn-
state of Illinois. sylvania State College, and issued by
A research department has been es- Charles Scribner's Sons. The 33 chap-
tablished at the Chicago House of Cor- ters are by different persons. The
rection, devoted* to the study and chapter entitled "Health and Heredity'^
treatment of asocial types. The per- is by C. B. Davenport.
sonel is Whitman, Superin-
John From the State Board of Charities
L.
tendent; Charles E. Sceleth, Dir^tor and Corrections of Virginia codtes a
Medical Department, and Samuel C. "Report on Mental Defectives in Vir-
Kohs, Director Psychopathic Depart- ginia." This seems to us one of the
ment. They have just issued a small best of the State Reports. It is ac-
23-page pamphlet entitled: "The Prac- companied by numerous family his-
ticability of the Binet Scale and the tories and charts.
Question of the Borderline Case." The "Eugenics and Social Welfare Bulle-
department was inaugurated through tin, No. v.," just issued by the New
the inspiration and effort of the Phil- York State Board of Charities, is an
anthropy Department of the Woman's attempt to standardize, or find the '

Club, Chicago. normal age for, eleven mental tests;

form board, two construction tests,
EUGENIC PUBLICATIONS. making a drinking cup, Whipple mo-
Bulletin No. 12 of the Eugenics Re- tor coordination test, cancellation, rec-
cord Office appeared in October. It is ognition and memory, "Aussage," pic-

entitled "The Feebly Inhibited. I., Vio- torial completion, time-telling, and
lent Temper and Its Inheritance," by autonyms.
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VOL. I. FEBRUARY, 1916. NO. 2.

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STUDIES ON RACES IN AMERICA. group numbers 10,037,420, and com-
At the Nineteenth International bined is only about 1,200,000 greater
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Congress of Americanists held in than the German mother-tongue stock.
I
Washington, December 27 to 31, cer- Professor Franz Boas considered
tain papers were read relating to the negro and white crosses and crossing
population of the United States that of white races. In Latin America mar-
are of eugenical interest. riages between men and women of the
Mr. James Mooney, of the Bureau negro and white races are almost
of American Ethnology, has made a equally frequent. In Anglo-Saxon
detailed study of the " past and pres-
America marriages between white men
ent Indian population of the United
and negro women form the vast ma-
States and northern territories," un-
jority. Consequently, in the former
dertaken for the Bureau of American
case a permeation of the two races
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Ethnology, Mr. Mooney arrives lat the
results in a mixed type, with almost
conclusion that the " entire Indian
equal amount of blood contributed by
population north of Mexico at the
each side, in accordance with the num-
period of earliest white occupancy
ber of individuals in each race. In the
was approximately 1,140,000, of whom
latter case a constantly increasing
about 8^0,000 were within the present
limits of the United States. The total amount of white blood will be found,
number has been reduced by about because the fertility of the negro
two thirds through disease, famine, male is materially reduced while that
and war, consequent on the advent of of the white male is considerably in-
the white man." creased. For this reason the white
Dr. Daniel Folkmar studied the blood will more and more preponder-
United States Census with reference ate in the mixed population. The
to the immigrant stocks of the United problems in regions of pure white
States. He finds that "in 1910 were population are still different. The
presented for the first time in the mixture of European types that oc-
census figures directly relating to the curs in America is a repetition on a
ethnic composition of the white popu- larger scale of earlier phenomena in
lation of the United States, in so far the development in European popula-
( as that is indicated by the native lan- tions. The stability of European so-
guages of the foreign born and their cial units is largelya phenomenon be-
children in the United States. A great longing to the stable agricultural con-
numerical preponderance is still held ditions which prevailed in modern
by the mother tongues of northwest- times until the beginning of the nine-
ern Europe. The German is larger teenth century, but with the industrial
than the English or any other single development this stability has been
foreign stock in the United States, as broken. From the experience of Eu-
thus defined. It contributes more than rope, there is no reason to assume
one fourth of the entire last two gen- any detrimental influence owing to the
erations of immigration. The Eng- contact of different types in our
lish-Irish-Scotch-Welsh mother-tongue country.
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THE FEEBLY INHIBITED. the one hand and by cheerfulness on

There has recently been issued from the other. The study then proceeds to
the Carnegie Institution of Washing- the analysis of 89 familj^ histories in-
ton Publication No. 236, under the volving 149 matings from which sup-

general title "The Feebly Inhibited." port appears to be found for the fol-
This however, pertains to a se-
title,
lowing h^^pothesis "There is in the
:

ries of studies by Dr. Charles B. Dav-

germ-plasm a factor, E, which induces
enport, not all of which are published an excited condition its absence, e, ;

by the Carnegie Institution. The first results in an absence of excitability

of these studies, on " Violent Temper (calmness). There are also a factor,

and its Inheritance," which makes for normal cheerful-

was published in (J,
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the " Journal of Nervous and Mental ness, and its absence, c, which permits
!

Disease" for September, 1915, and depression. Moreover, these factors

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has been issued as Bulletin 12 of the behave as though<

in ditferent chromo-

Eugenics Record Office ; second

the somes, so that they are inherited in-

and third studies make up the present dependently of each other and may
Carnegie Institution publication and occur in any combination." Pedigree
;

two others, we are informed, are in charts of the 89 families including

preparation. over 2,300 individuals with descriptive
legends make up the appendix.
The first of the present studies is
" Nomadism," or the Wandering Im-
pulse, with Special Reference to He-
redity." It is based on the records of NEW YORK STATE COMMISSION
one hundred families, abstracts of
ON THE MENTALLY DEFICIENT.
whose histories are included in an A report of the Commission to In-
appendix. The conclusion is drawn vestigate Provision for the Mentally
from the study that " nomadism is Deficient has been printed as a Senate
probably a sex-linked recessive mono- Document of the State of New York.
hybrid trait." The book comprises 628 pages. The
The second study included in the report consists of the report proper,
volume is on *' Inheritance of Tem- appendices, and index. The report is
perament." The author first points divided into four sections :A, The dis-
out two contrasted temperamental cussion of the duty of the state to-
states, the hyperkinetic or elated and ward the mentally deficient, 102 pages.
the hypokinetic or depressed, but these ZJ,Testimony collected at hearings, 137
are not mutually exclusive nor is one pages, subdivided as follows a, The
:

simply the absence of the other. On need for extension of facilities &, For ;

the contrary although opposed they an institution in western New York

may exist together. Each may be V, For an institution in southeastern

considered as distinguished by two New York d, For special care of de-

;

grades or degrees of development, for fective delinquents e, Sterilization ;

which Dr. Davenport finds the terms /, For a psychopathic clinic for the
of the older psychology convenient examination of mental status g, For ;

and thus obtains the series choleric, better training and supervision of
;

nervous, phlegmatic, and melancholic. high-grade defectives in public schools

These grades may exist alone or in and in the community. C, General
various combinations, while their ab- conclusions and recommendations, 39
sence is represented by calmness on pages, and, D, Visits to institutions, 62
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pages. The appendices include a re- dren. The prospective plans for the
port of the enumeration of the mental development of the work call for an
defectives in New York state, 88 pages ; enlargement of the present foundation
a report by Dr. Gertrude E. Hall on two or three additional fel-
to include
the mental examination of defectives, lowships with an annual value of
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which includes a very important West- $1,000 each two office or laboratory
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chester County survey, 30 pages a assistants one or two field workers to

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report by Dr. Mullan of the mental collect data on the heredity of excep-
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examination of persons in Westches- tional children and a research pro- ;

ter County, 20 pages Directory of fessorship. INIore remotely there is

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stat and other institutions in the contemplated the establishment of a

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United States for the care of the men- hospital school or home for the first-
tally deficient. 86 pages Bibliography hand study of exceptional children,
;

of eugenics and allied subjects, 109 and for the practical training of spe-
pages. There are a large number of cial teachers of such.
plates of buildings and interiors of There has been worked out what is
institutions for mental defectives. known as the " Stanford Revision of
Considering the short time that the the Binet Scale," record blanks for
Commission had for its work it has which may be obtained at $5 per
done well. Its report is the best of hundred.
the state reports on this subject with
which we are acquainted.
INTERNATIONAL GENEALOGICAL
FEDERATION.
THE BUCKEL FOUNDATION. The Proceedings of the Interna-
In connection with Stanford Univer- tional Congress of Genealogy held at
sity there has recently been estab- San Francisco, July 20-31, 1915, has
lished " a research fellowship for the been published in a pamphlet of 106
psychological and pedagogical study pages. Its distribution is in the hands
of backward and mentally defective of Mr. Hugh Heald, 1215 Van Ness
children. The endowment is known Avenue, San Francisco. A committee
as '
The
C. Annette Buckel Founda- was appointed to organize an Interna-
tion.' " The first fellow under the tional Genealogical Federation and it
foundation was J. Harold Williams, was voted that " one of the objects of
who devoted himself chiefly to the the International Genealogical Fed-
study of the intelligence of delinquent eration shall be the collection and
boys, largely at the Whittier (Cali- preservation of genealogical data for
fornia) State School. eugenic purposes and that the com-
A second bulletin has been issued by mittee of organization of said Inter-
Mr. Lewis H. Terman outlining the national Genealogical Federation is
aims and purposes of the foundation, hereby instructed to provide for the
from which it appears that five lines collection and preservation of said
of research are proposed: (1) back- genealogical data for eugenic pur-
ward and feeble-minded children; (2) poses. Mr. Paul Popenoe, editor of
delinquent or potentially delinquent the " Journal of Heredity," read a pa-
children; (3) nervous, morbid, or psy- per before the Congress on " The Rela-
chopathic children; (4) children of tionship between Genealogy and Eu-
superior ability; and (5) normal chil- genics."
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EUGENICAL NEWS. deaths, and brief note of defects of

Published monthly by The New Era Print- each, also a short life history of the
ing Company, 41 North Queen St., propositus, including notes on his
I^ncaster, Pa., for the
heredity and environment.
EUGENICS EECORD OFFICE, Dr. Gertrude E. Hall, inspector for
Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, N. Y. the State Board, who has kindly sup-
plied us with an account of the work-
Subscription twenty-flve cents for six numbers, ings of the office, informs us that the
postage free in the United States and island posses-
sions; also in Canada, Mexico, Cuba, and Canal compilation of these records has
Zone. In all other countries add five cents tor
postage. reached a point such that about one
Application made lor entry as Second Class Matter,
Lancaster, Pa.
fourth of the information reaching
them as " new " with regard to de-
FEBRUAEY, 1916. fectives is not entirely new, but has
to be entered on case cards already
written. " In other words, the doings
CHANGE IN THE "NEWS."
With this number the " Eugenioal of the defective population of the state
News " becomes an eight-page paper. begin to have continuity for us and
are not detached events. For fami-
It is also planned to issue the " News "
lies the continuity of events is estab-
monthly instead of bi-monthly. Sub-
lished on small pedigree charts which
scribers will note that their subscrip-
tions are for six numbers. No change
show in which institutions each mem-
ber has been and what his defects
in the price will be made because of
are."
the change in number of pages.
The office contains now some 75
family histories gained by field work
RECORDS OF STATE WARDS. with pedigree charts, also some 300
1. New York State. small pedigree charts built up from
office records without field-work. All
The central board maintaining rec-
of the charts are indexed.
ords in respect to the dependent classes
of New York state is the State Board
of Charities with offices at the Capitol
at Albany. Probably the records of THE FAMILY RECORD BOOK.
greatest interest to eugenical workers Dr. J. Madison Taylor, of 1504 Pine
are to be found in the Bureau of Anal- Street, Philadelphia, has revised the
ysis and Investigation, a subdivision manuscript of his " Family Record
of the Department of State and Alien Book." This now provides for a rec-
Poor. Besides various records giving ord of the individual from conception
more or less detailed information con- onward through life. It also provides
cerning inmates of state institutions, for a full record of a family consist-
there is here maintained a special de- ing of the parents and children. Dr.
scriptive index file covering some Taylor is in doubt whether there will
19,500 cases of defectives. The data be a sufficient demand to warrant the
in respect to each case are recorded publication of this Record. We hope
on a series of cards, 5x8 inches, and that young parents especially and
furnish besides the name of the indi- those whose children are still not fully
vidual, his consort, children, siJos, par- grown up will write Dr. Taylor urg-
ents, parents' sibs. and the four grand- ing him to publish the book and offer-
parents, with dates of births and ing to take a copy when issued.
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EUGENICS FIELD WORKERS. construct a complete scientific, bio-

Ethel C. Macomber eugenics

is a logical pedigree. Her home is at 410
field worker for the Massachusetts West 148th Street, New York
City.

School for Feeble-minded at Waverly, Ruth M. Underhill, until recently

Mass. eugenics field worker of the Nassau
Wilhelmina Marshall, now Mrs. Ar- (N. Y.) County Association, tells of
thur C, Zuck, is living at Skillman, some of her work on Long Island, N.
N. J., where she is connected with the Y., in the "Survey" for December 11,
State Village for Epileptics. 1915.

Dr. Elizabeth B. Muncey at the Eu- Mary M. Sturges is engaged in spe-

genics Record Office is assisting in cialwork at Cornell Medical College,
completing family histories on sub- New York City. She is also preparing
a report for the " Association for Im-
jects of current interest such as mi-
graine and twins. proving the Condition of the Poor."
Sybil Hyatt has received the degree Her address at present is 426 East
of A.M. in Psychology from Columbia 26th St., New York.
University and is temporarily engaged
in genealogical work. Her address is
Kinston, North Carolina.
FIELD-WORKERS' REPORTS.
Isabelle V. Kendig, now Mrs. Howard
B. Gill, is general secretary for the Since the first of December the fol-

League for Preventive Work, with lowing material has been reported to
rooms in the Publicity Building, 44 the Eugenics Record Office by the
Broomfield Street, Boston, Mass. named field workers.

Susan K. Gillean is instructor in the Edith S. Atwood has sent in 49

Newcomb High School, New Orleans, sheets and 3 charts, including 508 per-
La., and lectures on eugenics to the from Shelby, Vanderburg, and
sons,

biology class in Newcomb College, Tu- Warrick counties, Ind.

lane University. Her address is 1625 Mrs. Anna W. Finlayson has re-
Second St., New Orleans. turned 209 sheets and 9 charts, includ-
Sadie C. Devitt is connected with ing 777 persons, chiefly from Craw-
the Minnesota School for Feeble- ford, Butler, Clarion, Mercer, Arm-
minded, Faribault, Minn. She was and Potter counties. Pa.
strong,
east for a holiday trip and made the Miss Florence Armstrong has re-
Record Office a pleasant visit. turned 54 sheets and 4 charts, includ-
Marie T. Curial is field worker for ing 357 persons, from Cattaraugus and
the Minnesota School for Feeble- Allegany counties, N. Y.
minded and is assistant to Miss Devitt. Mr. Karl Cowdery has reported 70
Her address is Anoka, Minn. sheets and 37 charts, including 1,416
Marjorie Fulstow, who has been a persons, from Los Angeles, California.
field worker for the Rome State Cus- Miss Clara P. Pond has sent in 12
todial Asylum, Rome, N. Y., for the sheets and 1 chart, including 39 per-
past year is now in charge of the Eu- sons, from Elkhart County, Ind.
genics Registry at the Sanitarium, Miss Edith M. Douglass has reported
Battle Creek, Michigan. 12 sheets and 3 charts, including 146
Mrs. George A. Hathaway is work- persons, from New Haven, Conn.
ing upon a genealogy of the Brainerd Miss Mabel C. Huschka has
re-
ancestry, one of the first attempts to turned 25 sheets and 11 charts, includ-
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ing- 251 persons, from New York City

Massachusetts Barnstable, Berkshire, :

and Brooklyn. Dukes, Essex, Franklin, Hampden,

^[iss Elizabeth Greene has reported Hampshire, Middlesex, Nantucket,
140 sheets and 7 charts, including 1,127 Norfolk, Plymouth, Worcester.
names, from Baltimore, ^Id. Michigan Lapeer. :

Miss Helen E. Martin has sent in 28 Minnesota Kandiyohi. :

sheets and 1 chart, including 84 per- Nebraska Richardson. :

sons, from Brooklyn and New York. Nevada Lyon. :

The State Board of Control of Wis- New Hampshire Belknap, Carroll, :

consin has also furnished us with 204 Cheshire, Grafton, Merrimack, Rock,
sheets of records of 36 families, chiefly Sullivan.
from Chipi^eway, Brown, Milwaukee, New Jersey Bergen, Burlington, Cam- :

Wood, ^Marinette. Dane, Winnebago, den, Cape Maj% Cumberland, Essex,

Fond du Lac, and Oconto counties. Gloucester, Hunterdon, Mercer, Mid-
There have also been filed in the dlesex, Monmouth, Morris, Ocean,
Office since the first of January- 37 Passaic, Salem, Somerset, Sussex,
records of famih- traits from private L^nion, Warren.
families. New York Chenango, Columbia, :

Dutchess, Franklin, Greene, Herki-

mer, Jefferson, Lewis, Madison, Mont-
DISTRIBUTION OF RECORDS. gomery, Nassau, Oneida, Orange.
The following list of states and Oswego, Otsego, Putnam, Rockland,
counties, taken from the Locality- Saratoga. Schoharie, Suffolk, Sulli-
Surname index of the Eugenics Kec- van, Ulster, Warren, Washington.
ord Office, gives a general idea of the North Carolina Craven, Jones, Lenoir, :

geographical distribution of the data Onslow.

now on file at the office. The counties Ohio Seneca. :

included are those in which there is Pennsylvania Bradford, Bucks, But- :

at one different surname for

least ler, Chester, Clarion, Clearfield,

every thousand of population for ex- ;

Crawford, Cumberland, Elk, Erie,

ample, Napa County, California, has Forest, Franklin, Jefferson, Lancas-

nineteen thousand inhabitants and ter, Mercer, Mifflin, Northampton,
there are at least nineteen different Potter, Sullivan, Venango, Warren.
surnames in the index from this Rhode Island Washington. :

county. No count of the individuals Vermont Addison, Chittenden, La-

:

listed under a single surname has moille, Orange, Rutland, Windham,

been made, but this often is a large Windsor.

number, sometimes amounting to sev- Virginia : Culpepper, Frederick.
eral hundred. West Virginia : Randolph, Upshur.
California Napa. :

Connecticut Fairfield, Hartford, Litch-

:

field, Middlesex, New Haven, New NEWS AND NOTES.

London, Tolland, Windham. The fourth annual meeting of the
Indiana Cass,
: Jasper, Kosciusko, Board of Scientific Directors of the
Miami. Eugenics Record Office was held at the
Maine Hancock, Lincoln, Washington.
: New Willard Hotel, Washington, D. C,
Maryland Baltimore City, Calvert,
: on December 10, 1915. The Founder
Harford, Howard, St. Mary's. met with the Board.
 EUGENICAL NEWS 11

The National Committee on Prisons The Southwest School of Hygiene

has organized a committee on eugenics of Kansas City, Missouri, under the
to consider the constitutional basis of \
Mooney,
directorship of Dr. Belle S.

criminalistic behavior. The inquiries is organizing a Eugenic Survey of the

into family history are to be made by city with the co-operation of the
a field worker trained by the Eugenics Board of Education. The plan is to
Record Office. secure the family history of all the
A committee on nomenclature of the school children and not simply the
American Genetic Association has history of the backward children.
carefully considered the matter and This is an important step in the right
decided that " geneticist " is the best direction. No class of society can be
term to apply to a person concerned rightly studied apart from its fel-
with genetics. By analogy " eugeni- lows. Our studies of human heredity
cist " w^ould seem to be the best term have been thus far too one sided.
to use for a student of eugenics. At the meeting of the American As-
The Department of Eesearch of the sociation of Anatomists held in New
Whittier State School of California Haven, December 28-30, 1915, Dr.
contemplates the publication of a pe- Charles E. Stockard read a paper in
riodical devoted to the scientific study which the following conclusion is
of juvenile delinquency and related drawn The experiments have dem-
:
"

problems under the name of " The onstrated on two different stocks of
Journal of Delinquency." The Jour- normal guinea pigs that the parental
nal is to be a bimonthly, beginning germ cells may be so modified by
January, 1916. chemical treatments that they are ren-
Dr. Charles W. Eliot, president emer- dered incapable of giving rise to a
itus of Harvard University, gave an perfectly normal offspring. This in-
address before the American Associa- capacity is probably due to modifica-
tion for the Advancement of Science tions of the chromatin, or carriers of

on December 27, which was entitled the hereditary qualities, within the
" The Fruits, Prospects, and Lessons germ cells since the great-grandchil-
dren, the F3 generation, from the
of Eecent Biological Science." In this
address the role of heredity as the treated animals are usually more de-
most important factor in our social cidedly affected and injured than the

progress is clearly set forth. immediate offspring (Fj) of the alco-

At the thirty-first annual meeting of holized animals."

the Indiana Academy of Science held
at Indianapolis on Friday, December
3, 1915, there was a symposium on
PERSONALS.
heredity. A resume of work on he- Dr. A. J. Eosanoff and wife, of
redity was given by Dr. Ferdinand King's Park, N. Y., have a son, William
Payne, of the State University " Men-
; January 11, 1916.
Eoss, born
delism, the Key to the Architecture Born to William F. Blades and wife,
of the Germ-Plasm " was presented by of Garrison, N. Y., December 21, 1915,
Dr. Eoscoe E. Hyde, Professor of a son, William Blades.
Zoology, Indiana State Normal School To Mr. Clifford F. Martin and Mrs.
and " Heredity in Man " was dis- :Martin, formerly Euth S. Moxcey, was
cussed by Dr. Charles B. Davenport, born on Tuesday, January 4, 1916, a
of the Eugenics Eecord Office. daughter, Elizabeth Dana.
12 EUGENICAL NEWS

Miss Florence Eeed Davis, at one also fall unless we can preserve it by
time archivist at the Eug-enics Record the utilization of that scientific
Office, was married to Mr. Herbert knowledge in which alone We are su-
Getell Smith, December 28, 1915, at perior to the ancients."
Malvern, Pennsylvania. Their new The "
American Naturalist " for De-
home is to be at Tucumcari, New cember, 1915. contains an article by
Mexico. Harry H. Laughlin, superintendent of
The announcement is made of the the Eugenics Record Office, on " The
eng-agement of Miss Florence H. Dan-
Fi Blend Accompanied by Genie Pu-
ielson to Mr. Joseph Stancliffe Davis,
rity." The paper is descriptive of three
instructor in economics at Harvard
mechanical charts devised by the au-
Univei-sity. Miss Danielson has been
thor to illustrate Mendelian heredity
teaching biology at Brown University'.
in each of three well known cases of
Mr. Davis is a brother of Miss Florence
blending inheritance. The first is the
R. Davis, whose marriage is an-
strongly duplex of which the Anda-
nounced above.
lusian fowl is the type. The second is
We regret to announce the death of that of multiple factors typified by
Dr. R. H. Lock, of the School of Agri-
the inheritance of black skin-pigment
culture, Cambridge, England, a well-
in man. The third is the particulate
known geneticist, who worked espe-
or mosaic shown by the inheritance of
cially on heredity in peas and maize.
coat-color in short-horn cattle.
In the " Proceedings of the National
EUGENICS IN THE JOURNALS. Academy of Sciences " for December,
A. Gasparrini describes in " Poli- Dr. Gushing, of the Harvard Medical
clinico," Rome, December 14, 1915, an School, Boston, announces some re-
hereditary tendency, sometimes ex- sults that he has found in studying
tending through many generations, to the heredity of " stiff fingers," a type
severe systemic disturbance after eat- of congenital malformation of the
ing beans or even smelling the blos- hands or feet known as " symphalan-
soms of bean plants. gism." He has studied the history of a
Dr. "William N. Bullard writes on family which migrated from Scotland
mental disturbances in the feeble- to Virginia in 1700, and has found that
minded in the " Journal of Nervous " stiff lingers " are hereditary with the
and Mental Disease " for December, regularity ^vhich is expected in a
1915. The brief outbreaks of loss of dominant trait.
control are clearly of the same kind Milo Hastings has an article in
as those described in Bulletin No. 12 " Physical Culture " for January on
of the Eugenics Record Office. " Eugenic Laws in Everyday Lan-
In the November number of the guage." The title sufficiently indicates
" Ohio Public Health Journal " is an the character of the paper. He dis-
article by George B. L. Arner, for- cusses in unconventional language
merly a student at the Eugenics Rec- both Galtonian and Mendelian views
ord Office and now statistician of the of Eugenics and points out the dis-
Ohio State Board of Health, entitled tinction between them. While such
" The Menace of Inherited Defects." articles may be often criticized for
The article ends with the paragraph lack of scientific accuracy, they serve
" Civilizations have decayed and fallen to call the attention of many people
in the past, and our civilization will to important facts.
 EuGENicAL News
VOL. I. MARCH, 1916. NO. 3.

HEREDITY OF SPENCER F. BAIRD. ican species than any other. A mod-

est patrimony (aided by his elder
Spencer Fullerton Baird was born
brother's earnings) permitted, his own
Feb. 3, 1823, at Reading, Pennsyl-
poor health and the family's pride in
vania. Having extensively collected
his collections justified, the free hand
local birds he was, at 22, appointed
he was given, until his extraordinary
professor of natural history in Dickin-
achievements led to his Smithsonian
son College, his alma mater. In 1850
appointment.
he became assistant secretary of the
His organizing and administrative
Smithsonian Institution and, on the
death of Professor Henry, its secre-
success was largely due to an imagi-
nation that enabled him to see broad
tary. The great governmental explo-
relations, a love of system in hand-
rations of the West in the fifties were
organized by him, and to him are due
ling dataand materials, and a great
the National Museum, and the U. S.
memory for details. As a child he in-
vented marvellous fiction; later, he
Fish Commission, of which latter he
was made head. He did extensive pictured to himself great biblio-

literary and editorial work and was

graphic undertakings, a vast museum
secretary of
to which government agencies should
leading scientific soci-
be tributary, and, still later, even the
eties. He died in 1887. This output
increase of the fishes of the sea. His
of Baird may be ascribed to his inter-
est in natural history, organizing and
own mother and her mother had this
sort of imagination when they let the
administrative ability, inventiveness,
lad work out his " useless " plans, his
literary and personal charm
talent,
and kindliness. The origin and devel- mother's father showed it in his
opment of these trait-complexes let us musical performances, and his father's
now consider. maternal uncle was " eccentric."
The
Among his earliest
recollections are
was
love of order
highly developed in
the pleasant walks in the country his mother, who was a model house-
with his father whose tastes were keeper and it showed in himself in
rural though his profession was legal.
the daily records that he began to
Spencer's elder brother, William, was
make at 15.

an able ornithologist together thev Baird was inventive even as a boy.

;

roamed the country and undertook He experimented with electricity and

blue-printing. At the museum he in-
to collect a complete series of birds
of the county maternal cousins, too,
vented unit-trays and unit-cases. His
;

brother Thomas devoted his life to

were keen sportsmen forest and
;

mechanical pursuits and his father's

stream lured all alike, for the natural-
father was a land surveyor. Baird's
ist tendency was in the blood. In
literary output as author and editor
Spencer the love of hunting developed
was prodigious he inherited his
;

into collecting and, with his sense of

father's bookishness. Baird was
order, into preserving and systematic
friendly, and had a sunny tempera-
arrangement. He persevered, encour-
ment like his mother's.
aged by Audubon, until, at 24, his col-
"W. H. Dall. Spencer Fullerton Baird.
lection contained more North Amer- PhiladelDhia, Lippincott, 1905, 462 pp.
Price, $3.50.
14 EUGENICAL NEWS
THE SUPER-NORMAL CHILD. even if enforced, leave the excludable
The fact that all children are not alien a burden on the
commonwealth,
born with the same capacity for edu- or a menace which, in the case among
cation is gradually shaping the ac- the defective classes, cannot be esti-
tion of advanced educationalists. The mated in terms of money." " An in-
Report of the Commissioner of Edu- vestigation conducted by this Bureau
cation for 1915, in discussing atypical of 190 cases developed the following
children, says " The public is becom- facts: (1) that correct names are not
ing interested in the super-normal given on the bond; (2) that the
child. Accordingly at present it is bonded alien is sent out of the state
eager for information regarding this and city; (3) that correct addresses
type of child and the school is rap-
;
are not given; (4) that the persons
idlybecoming aware that it has neg- to whom the aliens are assigned im-
lected the problem. Rapid advance- mediately move away leaving no ad-
ment classes are held for these chil- dress and cannot be located; (5) that
dren in certain cities, in others extra names are changed and the bonded
work given them in regular classes. alien placed in institutions; (6) that
is

But as yet few cities have had the the terms of bonds are violated and ;

courage to attempt to develop a pro- (7) that in one case the bonded alien
gram exactly fitted to their needs, was a cripple, unable to work."
nor have the psychological clinics Frightful details are given of fifteen
said much regarding tests to discover cases of feeble-minded, insane, and
the super-normal. imbecile aliens admitted under bond
" Wherever psychological laborato- to this state which were especially
ries have been established in connec- investigated by the Bureau.
tion with the public schools they have
found it impossible to keep pace with
the surprisingly large demand for the BEING WELL BORN.
examination of sub-normal cases. . . .

After the more obvious task of deal-

From the hand of Dr. ^Michael F.
Guyer, professor of zoology. Univer-
ing with the sub-normal has been ac-
sity of Wisconsin, comes an intro-
complished the still more valuable
duction to eugenics under the title
service to the state of devising a pro-
gram for the super-normal will, "Being Well Born." This is an at-
tractive small volume of 374 pages
doubtless, receive increased atten-
tion."
and covers in ten chapters the topics
of heredity, pre-natal influences, re-
sponsibility for conduct, the socially
BONDED ALIENS. inadequate, and race betterment
The Fourth Annual Report of the N. through heredity. The book is very
Y. Bureau of Industries and Immigra- well balanced and very readable, ac-
tion for the year ending September curate, and on the whole satisfactory.
30th, 1914, is received. In this re- There is, of course, ground for dif-
port is shown conclusively that the ference of opinion in some of the
method of admitting defective per- matters to which Professor Guyer
sons into the United States under commits himself. For instance it
bond is a heinous crime against eu- might be held that the statement on
genics, " Such bonds are seldom en- page 227 " all normal men are re-
forced, are usually worthless, and sponsible for their conduct " holds
 EUGENICAL NEWS 15

only when you define normal men as The Vermont act also punishes severely
those who are responsible for their any persons suffering from such dis-
conduct. Also, while admitting the eases who marry. An Ohio act ( 1273
importance of cultivating- habits of Code) while making willful betrayal
self control one must not forget that by a physician of a professional se-
there are those born without germs cret such unprofessional conduct as
of self control, so that, for them, the to justify a refusal of his licence, ex-
effort to cultivate such habits is prob- pressly provides that any physician
ably futile. These, however, are mat- who informs a party to a contem-
ters upon which careful investigation plated marriage of the fact that the
has still to be done. The book is a other party is suffering from such a
very welcome addition to the growing disease is not to be deemed guilty of
list of biological treatises on eugenics. betrayal of a professional secret and
shall not be liable to damage.

INHERITANCE OF EPILEPSY.
In the Eighteenth Annual Eeport
THE AFTERMATH OF WAR.
"
of the Managers of the New Jersey A writer in the " Japan Magazine
State Village for Epileptics Dr. David discusses the effects of war upon the
F. Weeks states that " each year second generation as disclosed by the
shows more and more the importance experience of Japan from the war
of systematic study of the inheritance with China of twenty years ago. The
of epilepsy by means of trained field remarkable decrease in the number
workers." Dr. Weeks has recently of youths fit for conscription this
published a paper in the " Journal of year, as compared with all other
the Medical Society of New Jersey years since the Chinese war, is con-
under the title "Epilepsy, with special sidered to be due to the tremendous
reference to heredity." The paper is effect of war upon both birth rate
and physical efiiciency. " As to phys-
introduced by the paragraph " There
is no disputing the fact that the ical condition, it is found that this
practice of collecting family histories year only 13 per cent, of the recruits
by field workers has been the means come up to the highest standard of
of gathering considerable data and physical excellence required by the
has added much to our knowledge of army whereas in ordinary years the

the influence of heredity on epilepsy." percentage is about 42."

This paper is especially valuable be- It is already apparent that the
cause of its analysis of the relation devastation of Europe is not to be
of alcoholic sprees to epilepsyand of confined to the generation that is
the relation of migraine to the same wasted on her battle fields. War sta-
disorder. tistics of birth rates in Germany are
now available. The records of the
Imperial Health Bureaus of twenty-
HYGIENIC LEGISLATION. six German more than 200,-
cities of
"
According to the " World Almanac show a great diminu-
000 inhabitants
the following state legislation was tion in the number of newborn after
passed in the year 1915 directed to- the first nine months of war. Berlin
ward the control of venereal diseases. has had nearly 250 fewer births some
Physicians are required to report such weeks since the war began than in
diseases in Connecticut and Vermont. normal times.
16 EUGENICAL NEWS

EUGENICAL NEWS. an indicator of the greatest value as

l*ublishe(l monthly by The New Era Pi-int- to the location and distribution of
ing Company, 41 North Queen St., cacogenic families throughout the
Lancaster, l*a., for the
state.
EUGENICS EECORD OFFICE, In comparison with the New York
Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, N. Y. records reported in our last issue it
will be seen that the Indiana system
Subscription twenty-flve cents lor six numbers,
postage Iree in llie United States and Island posses- is more extensive, covering a larger
sions; also in Canada, Mexico, Cuba, and Canal class of individuals, but does not fur-
Zone. In all other countries add Ave cents lor
postage. nish on the cards alone as full a de-
Application made /or entry as Second Class Matter,
Lancaster, Pa. scription of the individual and his
family connections.
MAKCH, 1916.

RECORDS OF STATE WARDS. THE LEAGUE FOR PREVENTIVE

2. Indiana.
WORK.
The Indiana State Board of Char- The League for Preventive Work of
ities with headquarters in Indian- Boston, Mass., is a federation of pri-
apolis has a card index of the in- vate charities, with public and private
mates of nearly all state and many affiliations throughout Massachusetts,
other institutions receiving public organized to deal with some of the
wards. The cards furnish brief data fundamental problems underlying all
as to mental and other characteristics social work, from the standpoint of
not only of the inmates but also of prevention. We are informed by the
the parents, sibs, and children. general secretary, Mrs. Isabelle Kendig
The system has been in use now Gill, '12, that at present they are study-

about twenty-five years and covers at ing the problem of feeble-mindedness,

present seventeen state institutions, and are working out a plan for a
92 county poor asylums, and 33 or- state-wide and continuing registration
phans' homes. There are 115,439 dif- of cases, community protection for the
ferent names of public wards included extra-institutional type, and adequate
in the index. All the cards are in custodial care for the large group for
duplicate, one set being arranged by whom conmiunity life is impracticable.
institutions and the other alphabet- They are also doing some publicity
ically and phonetically with a view and legislative work as occasion de-
to bringing all of onename together. mands and carrying on research into
Descriptive records of individual in- the social aspects of feeble-minded-
mates are also received from many ness, using for this purpose the large
other institutions such as county jails store of material on file in the various
and licensed maternity hospitals but agencies which has never been sub-
these are not at present included in jected to a searching analysis. The
the general card index. League was organized in March, 1915,
The cards, which are the usual 3x5 and the past year has been given
inch index cards, have the data ar- largely to a careful study of the pres-
ranged in a remarkably concise form ent situation, to the formulation of
and contain a surprisingly large a few definite but flexible policies,
amount of information for the space and to the application of those poli-
occupied. As the index grows through cies to other agencies dealing with
the accumulations of years it forms this problem.
 EUGENICAL NEWS 17

EUGENICS FIELD WORKERS. still engaged in medical work, spe-

in diseases of women, she
cializing
Helen T. Eeeves, '10, is in the De-
partment of Charities and Corrections, gives considerable time to lecturing
on Social Hygiene with its special
Trenton, N. J.
Thayer is field worker for phases of Eugenics and Sex
Hygiene.
Ethel
the Letehworth State Village for Epi-
Mary Storer, now Mrs. Kostir, re-
cently field worker for the Bureau of
leptics, Thiells, N. Y.
Eesearch, Ohio Board of Ad-
Adele McKinnie, Eugenics Class Juvenile
ministration, Columbus, Ohio, has
1911, is now assisting in the work of
the Cleveland Foundation, Cleveland,
prepared for the Bureau a pamphlet
based on her work there which is now
Ohio.
Helen E. Martin, Eugenics Class in press. She is now working
on a
thesis in Genetics for her M.A. degree
1913, is field worker for the Kings
Park State Hospital, Kings Park, at Ohio State University.
N. Y.
Katharine Gay, Eugenics Class

Jay D. B. Lattin is studying medi- 1913, is making a study of singing

cine in Cornell Medical College, New
with the view of pursuing the art
professionally. Eugenically she is
York City.
Elizabeth Greene, Eugenics Class
engaged part of her time at Waverly
House, New York, assisting the house
1913, is a field worker for the Phipps
physician in taking case histories and
Clinic, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Bal-
timore, Md.
investigating family records. Her
Anna M. Wendt, Eugenics Class address is 157 West 105tn St., New
1912,now Mrs. Alan D. Finlayson, is York City.

engaged as field worker with the

Warren State Hospital, Warren, Pa.
Anna E. Steffan is studying medi- THE STRENUOUS LIFE.
cine and doing part time work in the The path of the field worker at
Boston Psychopathic Hospital. Her this season is not lined with roses
address is 74 Fenwood Eoad, Boston, as appears from the experience of
Mass. Mr. Karl M. Cowdery who is employed
Walter Anderson, Eugenics Class
S.
at the Whittier State School, Whit-
1911, is now
a professor in the Depart- tier, California. He writes under
ment of Animal Husbandry, College date of January 24th: "Last week I
of Agriculture, State University, Lex-
was forced to stay here at the School
ington, Kentucky. He gives courses and in Whittier owing to the flood
in Genetics and Eugenics. conditions. All roads and carlines
Sara K. Kirk, Eugenics Class 1914, were closed on account of wash-outs
is engaged with the New Jersey State
from Sunday till Wednesday evening.
Institution for Feeble Minded at On Thursday I begged my way into
Vineland, N. J. She is largely em- Los Angeles on a newspaper car that
ployed in making mental tests of the went in by a very circuitous way, the
inmates but is now carrying on some only one open at the time. By even-
special work in the study of inherit- ing the cars were running again with
ance of traits. a transfer at one point to walk across
Dr. Cora B. Lattin, Eugenics Class a weak bridge. That is just inci-
1914, is living at 16 N. Main St., Al- dental. The people are the really
bion, Orleans Co., N. Y. Although interesting part of the work."
18 EUGEXICAL ^'EWS
Air. Joiiepli F. Guuld's letters froui legislature of the State of New York
Xorth Dakota read like those of a has eliminated any appropriation for
missiouary. He writes January 2Stli the maintenance of the Bureau of In-
**
This is the severest winter in 25 dustries and Immigration for the year
years and we are now in the midst 1916-17.
of a snowstorm which has continued The Eev. Charles L. Walworth, pas-
nearly two days. The stage drive tor of the Morrow Memorial Metho-
(to his next station) is 65 miles, and dist Church of Maplewood, N. J., ad-
the stage will not take a passenger vocates eugenic marriages as a means
and his baggage in one day through of insuring children their right to be
the drifts of snow which delay the well-born. Eugenics, he declares,
trip every time from two to four '
voices the cry for better parents.
hours. . .
. The stage driver has just Some day it may be regarded as a
come in and says that he may have crime against society to publish such
to get the mail on horseback if the an advertisement as the following
drifts continue bad, so that tomor- which has been running in " The
row may be the last stage trip for Survey." '*

Wanted married couples
some time.*' without children, between the ages of
30 and 45, to take charge of cottages "
at a school for boys.
NEWS AND NOTES. During 1915 a commission to in-
vestigate the condition of the feeble-
The Forty-third National Confer-
minded was created in Utah and a
ence of Charities and Corrections is
comprehensive measure for their re-
to be held in Indianapolis, May 10
lief was enacted in Illinois. A Ne-
to 17.
braska law requires sterilization of
About one sixth of the Jews in the
the feebleminded before their parole
world are in the United States and
or discharge from state institutions.
of these nearly one half are in
Dr. A. Walter Steams of Boston is
Greater Xew lork.
to undertake a mental examination
According to Mr. James Mooney,
of the inmates of correctional insti-
ethnologist of the Bureau of Ameri-
tutions in Arkansas under the au-
can Ethnology, the tallest people of
spices of the National Committee for
the United States are to be found in
^^ental Hygiene. The work will as-
Scotland County, North Carolina,
sist the Arkansas Commission on
An Association for the Study of Provision for the Feeble-minded in
Negro Life and History has been
its report to the state.
formed. The Director of Eesearch is
The Committee on Provision for
Carter Godwin Woodson, Ph.D., of
the Feeble-minded has just issued two
2223 Twelfth St., N. W., Washington,
bulletins. Number 1 is entitled " The
D. C. BLnet-Simon Measuring Scale for In-
The Bureau of Juvenile Eesearch, telligence and is by Elizabeth S. Kite-
Columbus, Ohio, of which Dr. E. J. Bulletin No. 2 is entitled " Stimulat-
Emerick is director and Dr. Thomas ing Public Interest in the Feeble-
H. Haines is clinical director, is about minded How it was Done in New
:

to undertake the registry of the Jersey." The address is 501 Empire

feeble-minded of Ohio. Building. Philadelphia.
We learn that the tentative state The " Announcement of the Biolog-
budget recently introduced into the ical Laboratory" at Cold Spring Har-
 EUGENICAL NEWS 19

bor, Long Island, for next summer family history of prisoners arrested
has just been issued. The training in New York City, cooperating with
course for Field Workers in Eugenics the Psychopathic Laboratory of the
is offered again by Dr. C. B. Daven- city police department. Mrs. Harri-
port and Mr. H. H. Laughlin. In ad- man agreed to meet the expense of
dition the general biological courses the field ^vorker. Mr. William F.
are given as hitherto Field Zoology
: Blades has been appointed tempo-
by Prof. H. E. Walter and Dr. S. I. rarily as such field worker.
Kornhauser Comparative Anatomy by
;

Prof. H. S. Pratt and Mr. H. M. Hine

Bird Study by Mrs. Alice Hall Walter PERSONALS.
and Dr. C. E. Ehinger Cryptogamic ;
Mr. Paul Popenoe, editoir of the
Botany by Prof. Harlan H. York and "
Journal of Heredity," lectured on
;

Plant Geography and Ecology by " Progress in the Study of Human

Prof. John W. Harshberger and Mr. Heredity " before the Anthropolog-
Fred N. Miller. ical Society of Washington on Feb-
A survey of the state of Indiana is ruary 15.
being planned under the direction of Mr. A. D. Darbishire, lecturer on
the Committee on the Provision for genetics in the University of Edin-
the Feebleminded. A meeting of the burgh, known by his experiments
Committee was held February 4 in bearing on the laws of heredity, and
consultation with Dr. Salmon of the his book on " Breeding and the Men-
National Committee for Mental Hy- delian Discovery," died on December
giene ; Mr. Joseph P. Byers, Dr. C. 26, 1915
W. Stiles and Dr. Clark of the United Mr. Arthur E. Hamilton during the
States Public Health Service Miss ;
week of February 14 and following
Lundberg of the Federal Children's gave nine lectures on eugenics at
Bureau and Dr. A. H. Estabrook rep-
; Syracuse, Auburn, Eome, and Ltica,
resenting the Eugenics Record Office. N. Y., and at Williamstown, Mass.
The Public Health Service has re- He found good audiences at all
cently made a survey of the country places, having about 600 in attend-
school children of Porter County. ance at Syracuse.
The Committee expect to meet again Dr. Henry S. Conard, one of the
soon and formulate definite plans for authors of " Bulletin 14, Hereditary
their work. Fragility of Bone," recently issued

A meeting of the Committee of from the Eugenics Eecord Office, has

Eugenics of the National Committee been appointed visiting lecturer on
Botany at Harvard University for the
on Prisons was held at the home of
second half of the academic year.
Mrs. E. H. Harriman on January 27.
Dr. Conard is professor of Botany at
The Committee consists of Dr. Wal-
Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa.
ter E. Fernald, Mrs. E. H. Harriman,
Drs. August Hoch, Woods Hutchin-
son, A. J. Eosanoff, Professor Eobert ACCESSIONS TO ARCHIVES.
M. Yerkes, Police Commissioner Ar- The following material has been
thur Woods, and Dr. C. B. Davenport. received and added to our archives
It was voted that the work of the during the month oi February:
Committee should consist of the study From private sources there have
of the early developmental and the been received 56 family records.
20 EUGENIC A L NEWS

Mr. Cowdery, field worker, 8 charts Mr. A. E. Hamilton calls attention

and 54 pages of data describing- 304 in the February- *' Journal of Hered-
persons from Los Angeles, Cal. ity " to the eugenical importance of
Miss Douglas, field worker, 8 charts an investigation into the subject of
and 45 pages of data describing 221 mate selection and a consideration of
persons from the vicinity of Hartford the topic ofhow the marriage rate
County, Conn. may
be increased and specifically how
Miss Atwood, field worker, 2 chartseugenically fit marriages may be pro-
and 42 pages of data describing 403 moted.
persons from Hamilton, Lawrence, Dr. P. H. Jolly has published in
and Warren counties. Ind. " Archiv f iir Psychiatric und Xerven-

Miss Armstrong, field worker, 7 krankheiten," Band 52, a detailed and

charts and 76 pages of data describ- painstaking study of hereditj* of vari-
ing 348 persons from Erie. Catta- ous psychoses in twenty-one families.
raugus, and Chautauqua counties, He finds no strong tendency for psy-
N. Y. chopathic families to die out in rela-
Mrs. Finlayson, field worker foi tively few generations.
the Warren Stat^ Hospital, Warren. Two pedigrees of cancerous fam-
Pa., has sent us 12 charts and 329 ilies are given by Peiser in " Medi-
pages of data describing 1459 per zinische Klinik," Vol. 11, Xo. 7. p. 193.
sons from the northwestern counties In each a cancer occurred in four
of the state. consecutive generations. Pel also
Miss Earle. abstractor, has gath- gives two family histories of cancer
ered from scientific literature and in " Berliner Klinische Wochen-
reported to the office 230 pages of schrift." Vol. 52, pp. 288-9.
data taken for the most part from The first number of the new jour-
American. English. French, and Ger- nal " Genetics " has appeared. This
man medical journals and reflecting is to be a bimonthly issuea in annual
medical work on heredity. volumes of about 600 pages, and sent
to subscribers at $6 per year. The
present number is enriched by a fine
reproduction of an unpublished por-
AMONG THE JOURNALS.
trait of Gregor Mendel from an oil
Professor Giuseppe Sergi has pub- painting which hangs in the parlor
lished an essay " L'Eugenika della of the old ^Monastery at Brlinn. Aus-
Biologia alia Sociologia " in "KevisKi tria. Besides the editorial "Fore-
di Antropologia." Volume 19. word " the issue contains the follow-
Hereditary absence of digital pha- ing articles " Non-disjunction
: as
langes is described by D. S. Clarke proof of the chromosome theory of
in " British Medical Journal " for heredity " by Calvin B. Bridges " The
;

1915. page 225. numerical results of diverse system^

Mr. Willis C. Lane describes a case of breeding" by H. S. Jennings;
of " Hereditary Nose Bleed " in the "Hereditary anchylosis of the prox-
"Journal of Heredity" for March. imal phalangeal joints (symphalang-
The same number also contains an ism." by Harvey Gushing. The last
articleby Professor Walter F. Wil- article is of interest to eugenicists
cox inwhich he discusses the ob- and is illustrated with photographs,
served decline of birth and death skiagraphs, and a folding pedigree
rates in civilized countries. chart.
 EuGENicAL News
VOL. I. APRIL, 1916. NO. 4.

HEREDITY OF LYMAN ABBOTT. and cousins are prolific authors. L.

Lyman Abbott, b. Boston, Dec. 18,
simple and lucid; his sen-
A.'s style is

1835, lived as a child in rural Maine tences are strikingly balanced as are
and as a yonth in New York city those of Jacob and John. A subtle
where, after graduation, he practiced humor runs through Lyman's writings.
law with his brothers. He was pas- Brother Vaughan's humor was exu-
tor at Terre Haute, 1860-65,
and secre- berant Jacob's was genially ironical.
;

tary of the Freedmen's Union Commis- Orderliness and system in all acts
sion (and pastor of a city church), are characteristic L. A. has kept to a
;

'65-69. Since 1869 his work has been daily program for 20 years. His
chiefly journalism ("Outlook") except brothers, too, followed their father's
that he succeeded Beecher at Plymouth rules for ordering life. A true philan-

Church, '87-'98. He has been in great thropy led L. A. to work for the edu-
demand for addresses on religious and cation of the negro, renobilitation of
social matters ; and has led in excise the Indian, and prosperity of the lab-
reform, establishment of postal sav- borer. An interest in affairs led him
ing banks, government regulation, to interpret current history as his

and the abolition of Indian reserva- father and uncle did that of the past.
tions. HeLiberal respecting the in-
is
L. A., with his New England blood,

spiration of the Bible non-Calvinis-

;
has always been strongly inhibited,
tic in creed upholder of " freedom of
;
unemotional, unsuggestible, reserved,
the will." inaccessible to " temptations." His re-
Always scholarly, at fourteen he pre- ligion, though based on faith, is intel-

ferred college to wealth early read ;

lectual. He is both a rationalist and
serious books, wrote a " Commentary a mystic. Like his father he is rad-
on the New Testament " ical in purpose, but conservative In
in 6 volumes
and a " Eeligious Dictionary." One performance. Additional warmth was
brother was a professor of law, an- supplied from the maternal side and
other a compiler of a Dictionary of from that side came chiefly, but not
legal terminology his father's frater-
;
exclusively, the musical aptitude of
nity organized schools. Always fond his fraternity. He relies on general
of exposition, athe played
ten principles if they stand the pragmatic
preacher. He abandoned
a successful test (Abbott trait) Insistence on a
.

law practice for preaching and writ- personal and exhaustive consideration
ing ;the latter alone have brought of vital matters and independence in
entire satisfaction. Both parental adopting conclusions have preserved a
germ-plasms have yielded numerous Catholicism in religion and a " mug-
authors and preachers. Great literary wumpery " in politics, such as led his
output is a family trait. L. A. has writ- mother's father's brother to desert
ten about 30 books and parts of 2,300 English royalist associates for repub-
numbers of his weeklies. His brothers licanism in France and America. His
compiled many volumes of law digest personality, his reactions, his achieve
and textbooks. Their father, Jacob, ments seem like the natural product
wrote over 200 volumes their uncle of the parental determiners.
;
X.
John, many historical books, and sons Lyman Abbott: Reminiscences.
Houg-hton, Mifflin Co. $3.50.
22 ECGENICAL NEWS

IS CONGENITAL CATARACT teen had completed his well-known

RECESSIVE? book entitled Land-Birds and Game-
*

That congenital cataract is inher- Birds of Xew England.' He was an

ited as a recessive trait instead of a accurate observer, and gave promise of
dominant, as generally held, is the a notable career in science, had such
conclusion draxvn by Dr. D. F. Jones been chosen. But he became inter-
and S. L. Mason in the American ested in the construction of railroads
**

Naturalist ~ for February. Their con- and was soon the youngest railroad
clusion is drawn from an analysis of president in the United States. To
the pedigree charts published in the Charles alone did the beauty and the
*
Treasury of Human Inheritance.*' problems of organic life appeal with
1910. It is, of course, possible but not irresistible compulsion not as a mere
probable that the same trait may be source of recreation, nor as an occu-
inherited differently in different fami- pation which brooked a rival, but as
lies. But the conclusion of Jones and the one great theme worthy of a life-
Mason cannot be accepted for the long study and devotion.*' Both his
reason that the pedigrees given in the father and mother were fond of na-
" Treasury " are for the most part ob- ture. His immediate ancestry was
viously mere fragments and such characterized by a predominance of
:

fragments would tend to mislead in legal training and legislative services.

the direction in which Jones and He was of the fifth generation from
Mason appear to have been misled. It Jonathan Edwards.
is necessary to base statistical studies
on the most thoroughly worked out
pedigrees only: and for this purpose TESTING THE INADEQUATE.
none others are comparable with those
" Clinical Studies in the Relation-
of Nettleship. We do not see how it
ship of Insanity to Crime " is the title
is to interpret Nettleship's
possible
of a brochure of about 100 pages by
pedigrees of presenile cataract on the
Dr. Paul E. Bowers, physician in
hypothesis that the tendency to cat-
charge at the Indiana Hospital for
aract is a recessive one.
'nsane Criminals. Michigan City. In-
diana. Dr. Bowers devotes one of
each of a number of chapters to a par-
HEREDITY OF CHARLES S. MINOT. ticular form of psychosis and then de-
An analysis of the hereditary fac- scribes a number of clinical cases
tors in Charles Sedgwick Minot. a dis- under each heading, devoting half a
tinguished Harvard embryolosrist ^vho page to two pages to each case. We
died a year ago. is made by Professor do not know of an American work
Frederick T. Lewis in the " Anatomi- where a study on this plan has been
cal Record" for January 20. 1916. carried out more satisfactorily.
Minot was one of three brothers. Under the heading " Feeble-Miiided-
" All of them liked the country, and ness" Dr. Bowers finds himself led
William, the eldest, was a keen sports- to criticize the way in which the
man and his father's companion on Simon-Binet test is frequently applied
many exp>editions, Henry, who was and the conclusions which are often
younger than Charles, did not care to drawn from the results of such tests.
shoot or collect birds but he studied He says (page 81) "There are many
:

them with great ability, and at seven- individuals liring quiet, simple lires
 EUGENICAL NEWS 23

who accumulate property, care for CRITICISM OF THE "FEEBLY

who never come in
their children, con- INHIBITED."
flict with the law and conventions of Professor Edward L. Thorndike of
society, who are peaceful and law- Teachers College, Columbia Univer-
never asking- sity, review^s in " Science,"
abiding', self-supporting-,
March 24,
assistance for the stateand yet they "The Feebly-Inhibited," a book
based
would be classified as morons ana on studies made at
the Eugenics Rec-
high-g-rade imbeciles by the Simon- ord Office.
The principal point raised
Binet system. On the other hand, a point that deserves the most seri-
there are individuals, many of them
educated, even college graduates, who

ous consideration is that the traits
considered were not quantitatively
can pass this system with perfect ease, measured, or objectively defined. Un-
and yet they are absolutely lacking fortunately it will be a long time be-
in judgment, childish and puerile in fore abundant quantitative data can
their behavior and relations to others, be secured in this field of human be-
and incapable of conducting them-
'
havior. We shall not be able to be-
selves with any degree of prudence,' in gin until Professor Thorndike or othei
business and social relations. They psychologists devise a suitable set ot
are, in fact, lacking in mother w^it '
quantitative measures of the emotions.
and are really educated fools.' "
'

Meanwhile demands for information as

to the method of inheritance of such
THE NEXT GENERATION. traits has made it seem desirable to se-
Dr. Frederick A. Ehodes of Pitts- cure what may be called a first ap-
burgh has written a book of 290 pages proximation that will be of real serv-
with the title " The Next Genera- ice in eugenic practice.
tion "* the same as Mrs. Jewett's of the
preceding year. Mrs. Jewett's book
was intended as a textbook, is simply
A NOTABLE COUNTY REPORT.
written, and proceeds in orderly
fashion to develop the subject for chil- The report of the Superintendent of
dren. Dr. Ehodes's purpose is dif- Poor of Westchester County for the
ferent. As chairman of the Pitts- year ending October 31, 1915, is in-
burgh Morals Efficiency Committee he deed remarkable for a report of such
has had his attention fixed much upon office. Have we anywhere else in tht;
sex-problems and in this book lays country such an organization for the
much stress upon them. There are county poor? V. Everit Macy is su-
many things in the book that are well perintent, Herbert A. Brown, assist-
put, but we think it unfortunate to ex- ant superintendent. Miss Ruth Taylor,
tend the content of the term eugenics '11, is director in charge of children's
so as to embrace all of euthenics also department. Miss Genevieve M. Carr,
in places, to use it as almost synony- '13, and Miss Mary M. Bell, '12, and
mous with sex-hygiene. Certainly sometime archivist at the Eugenics
Galton hardly had sex-hygiene in mind Record Office, are making family his-
in defining the term and it is for
;
tory and other studies in the field.
those who use the term to see that it The central office of the superintend-
is applied conservatively, to its proper
ent contains a very full card index to
and restricted field of the race. the families of the county from which
Published by R. G. Badger, of Bos- inmates of the institution come.
ton. Price, $1.50.
 24 EUGENICAL NEWS
EUGENICAL NEWS. index. The Statistical Records vary
Published monthly by The New Era Print- somewhat in their contents according
ing Company, 41 North Queen St., to the institution from which they are
Lancaster, I'a., for the
received. In general they furnish, be-
EUGENICS EECORD OFFICE, sides a more or less complete history
Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, N. Y. of the inmate, orief data in respect to
the parents and sibs and usually some
Subscription twenty-five cents for six numbers,
postage free In the United States and Island posses- data as to " ancestors " and " rela-
sions; also in Canada, Mexico, Cuba, and Canal
tives " when these possess certain
Zone. In all other countries add five cents lor
postage. specified traits even then apparently
;

Application made for entry as Second Class Matter,

Lancaster, Pa. the names are not always given. Any-
thing like a complete family history
APRIL, 1916. is probably rarely supplied.

EUGENICS CONFERENCE.
A conference of eugenics workers
A COUNTY SURVEY.
will be held on Friday, June 23, at
the Eugenics Record Office, Cold To the Committee on the Enumera-
Spring Harbor, and an adjourned tion of Mental Defectives there has

meeting will be held the next day, been granted by the Rockefeller
Saturday, June 24, at the rooms of Foundation the sum of $10,000. The
the Brooklyn Institute of Arts anci membership of the Committee which
Sciences, Lafayette Ave., corner Ash- was initiated by the Xassau County
land PI., Brooklyn. (X. Y.) Association consists of: C. B.
Field workers
and others interested are requested to Davenport, chairman Professor ;

note and reserve the date. Samuel P. Duggan, College of the City
of Xew York; Miss Elizabeth Farrell,
Inspector of Ungraded Classes, Xew
York City; Mr. Homer Folks, Secre-
STATE RECORDS. tary of the State Charities Aid Asso-
3. Minnesota. ciation August Hoch, M.D., Director
;

The central board having to do with of the State Psychiatric Institute A.

;

state wards of Minnesota is the State J. Rosanoff, M.D., Kings Park State

Board of Control, St. Paul. This Hospital; Mrs. C. C. Rumse}-; and

board receives from the various state Thomas W. Salmon, M.D., Medical Di-
institutions a Statistical Record " in rector of the Xational Committee on
*'

the form of a large sheet containing Mental Hygiene. It is proposed to

prescribed data. This sheet is fiilea collaborate with the school authori-
and indexed as to the names of in- ties of a Xew York county. The
mates by the use of " Bausman's Quick services of eight field workers will
Index." As the latter has been found be required.
ill-adapted to the needs of the office
^
a new system of indexing is being in-
stalled. However, the index is only PRIZES KOR EUGENIC STUDIES.
a guide to the " Record " in which the A committee on promotion of the
name of the ward appears. We do not ideal of racial wellbeing created by
understand that the index furnishes the Xational Council of Education
any data or that the names of rela- announces that a fund of $1000 for
tives of the ward are included in the each of four jears has been offered
 EUGENICAL NEWS 25

by an anonymous donor. A prize of Mr. Cowdery has returned 6 pages

$100 is open to graduate classes of of charts and 30 pages of description,
two-year normal courses in each of including 155 persons from the vicin-
four sections of the country. Simi- ity of Los Angeles, Cal.
larly a prize of $150 to members of Miss Douglas has sent in 9 pages
graduating classes of colleges and of charts and 42 pages of data, includ-
universities in the same sections who ing 163 persons, chiefly from Hartford
have had two years of work in edu- and Fairfield Counties, Conn.
cation or home economics. The prize Miss Thayer has sent in 10 pages
is awarded to the class that makes the of charts and 40 pages of data, in-

best cooperative study on the topic eluding 111 persons from New York
" The supreme object of education City.

should be to make the next genera-

tion better than living generations."
PERSONALS.
The first prizes will be awarded to
classes of 1917. Notice of intention Cards are out for the wedding of
to compete should be sent before May Arthur E. Hamilton and Miss Kath-
1, 1916, to Dr. H. C. Putnam, Ehode
arine Gulick on Saturday, April 15.
Island Ave., Providence, E. I., of whom Clara P. Pond, '14, is a field worker
further details can be obtained. for the Northern Hospital for the In-
sane, Longcliff, Logansport, Ind.
Florence Orr, '11, now Mrs. A. W.
ACCESSIONS TO ARCHIVES. Murray, is at 183 Lake Ave., Cam-
During the month of March, 20 Rec- bridge, Mass.
ords of Family Traits, 3 schedules for Virginia P. Eobinson, '12, is visit-
the Family Distribution of Personal ing teacher of the Public Education
Traits and the following list of field Association and is living at 420 West
reports have been received at this of- 20th St., Bedford Hills, N. Y.
fice. Jane H. Eoss, '11, is connected with
Prof. R. L. Johnson, of Girard Col- the Westchester County Almshouse,
lege, has deposited with the office 11 East View, N. Y.
pages of descriptive material. Fannie George, '13, is assistant prin-
Miss Kirk, of New Jersey State In- cipal of the high school, Chaumont,
stitution at Vineland, has sent in 56 N. Y.
pages of data gathered in southern Euth Wanger, '12, is living at 833
New Jersey. West Marshall St., Norristown, Pa.
Miss Green, of Phipps Psychiatric Jessie Taft, '12, is the social service
Clinic, has deposited with the Office 41 director of the Committee on Mental
pages of charts and 85 pages of data, Hygiene of the Charities Aid Associa-
including 986 persons from Baltimore tion of New York City.
and vicinity. Mina A. Sessions, '13, is making a
Miss Armstrong has sent in 11 pages survey for defectives of Athens Coun-
of charts and 55 pages of descrip- ty, Ohio, under the direction of Dr.
tion, including 313 persons from Chau- Haines, of the Bureau of Juvenile Ee-
tauqua County, N. Y. search at Columbus, Ohio. Her ad-
Miss Atwood has reported 32 pages dress is 965 Oak St., Columbus.
of charts and 56 pages of data in- Eoxana H. Vivian, '12, is assistant
cluding 730 persons from the counties professor of mathematics at Welles-
of southern Indiana. ley College, Wellesley, Mass.
26 EUGENICAL NEWS
Emily F. Kobbins, '12, is chief of the S. Department of Sociology (or
*

hygiene department of the Life Ex- Economics).

tension Institute, 25 West 45th St., Z. Department of Zoologj-.
New York City. She is living at 203 An exclamation point ( !) means eu-
East 27th St., JS'ew York. genics the title or
is main subject of
Nola Houdlette, '12, is registrar of the course.
Bates College, Lewistou, Maine. E in parenthesis implies that the
(Jeorge L. Aruer, '10, is statistician subject is probably treated onl^- very
for the Ohio State Board of Health. incidentally.
His address is 301 Seventeenth St., Following the letters in some cases
Columbus, Ohio. is the name of the instructor who
gives the course. An * before the
name
an abbreviation for " Miss."
is
COLLEGE COURSES IN GENETICS Adelphia Coll. B: G. (*Gaines)
AND EUGENICS. Agnes Scott Coll. B G, E (*Abbott) :

The following list comprises such Agric. Coll. Texas A G. :

courses specilicall}- in genetics, eu- Albion CoU. B: G (Barr)

|

genics or both in American universi- Alfred Univ. B G, E (Bennehof) : !

ties and colleges as we have been able Allegheny Coll. B G, E :

to learn of as being given in 1915-16. Antioch Coll. B: G, (E) (Nosker)

Nearly all schools in agriculture give Barnard Coll. Z: G, E. (Crampton)
'

courses iu breeding of these onlj' a Bates C<5ll. Z G.

; :

few have been included in our list. Bellevue Coll. S: (E)

The elements of genetics and eugenics Beloit Coll. Z: G (Galloway)
!

are included in the subject matter of Bryn Mawr B: G ^Tennant, '16-17)

j

hundreds of elementarj' geuerai Coll. Clark. B : G, E (Hurlin)

courses in biology ; and eugenics is Coe Coll. Bot: G. E (Stookey)
doubtless treated incidentall}* in many Colgate Univ. B: G (Chester)
I

elementary courses in sociology. Such Columbia Univ. Bot: G (Stout); S:

j

have not been included. The list gives (E) (Giddings) Z: G (Morgan) ;

first, name of institution, then the de- See Barnard Coll. and Teachers Coll.
partment and subject of the course Conn. Agric. Coll. Bot: G (Sinnott)
followed by the name of the instructor Cornell Univ. A: G, E (Gilbert, etc.)
when accessible. In some colleges a Dartmouth Coll. B: G, {E) (Gerould)
course is given in more than one de- Denison Univ. Z E (Orcutt) : !

Elmira Coll. B G, E (*Whittaker) :

partment.
Fairmount Coll. B G, E (Larrabee) :

ABBBEVIATIGNS. Harvard Usiv. B: G (East) ; Z : G, E

A. School of Agriculture. (Castle)
An. Department of Anthropolog3\ Haverford Coll. B: G (Pratt)
B. Biology. Indiana Univ. Bot: G^Mottier) Z: ;

Bot. Botany-. G (Payne)

C. Coll. College. Iowa State Univ. Hort G (Beach) An. : ;

E. Eugenics treated. Husb. G (Lloyd-Jones) Bot: G. ;

Ed. Department of Education. Johns-Hopkins Univ. Z: G (Jennings)

0. Genetics treated. Kansas State Agr. Col. A: G (Went-
Phil. Department of Philosophy. worth) Bot: G (Roberts) Z G, E ; ; :

P.Ed. Department of Physical Edu- (Xabours)

cation. Lake Forest B: G (Allee)
 EUGENICAL NEWS 27

Lawrence Coll. B
(Mullenix)
: G, E Univ. of Kansas. B: G (C. Shull) ; Z:
Leland Stanford Z G, E (Kellogg) : G, E (Allen, Robertson)
Lousiana State Univ. A G (Jordan) : Univ. of Kentucky. A: G (Anderson)
Maryville Coll. S: (E) (Calhoun) U. of Maine. B G : ; Phil : G, (E) (Craig)
Mass. Inst. Tech. B G, E (Turner) :
;
Univ. of Michigan. B: G (Bartlett) ;

Miami Univ. P. Ed: (E) Z: G, ; E I

Z: G, E (Glaser, A. F. Shull)
(Shideler)
j
Univ. of Minnesota. A : G ; S : E
Mississippi Industr. Inst. (Eckford) E (Jenks) ; Z: G, E.
Mo. Wesleyan B :G, E (Daugherty) Univ. of Missouri. A: G (Trowbridge) ;

Monmouth Coll. B: E! (Gunthorp) Bot: G

(Reed) ; Z: G (Lefevre)
No. Dakota Agric. Coll. A G (Waldron)
(E) (Howard)
:
Univ. of Nebraska. S :
;

Northwestern Univ. Z G, E (Korn-

Z: G (Powers)
:

hauser)
L^niv. of North Dakota. B : G (Young)
Oberlin Coll. Bot G, E (Grover) :

E (Lane) Univ. of Oklahoma. Z : G,

Ohio State Univ. B G Z G. : ; :

Univ. of Oregon. P. Ed E : !

Ohio Univ. A: G
Univ. of Penn. Bot; G (Davis)
Olivet Coll. B: G (Dexter)
Pittsburgh. B E (Johnson)
Oregon Agric. Coll. A: G; Z: G, E Univ. of
: ! ;

(Sykes) Ed: E (Basset)

Penn. State Coll. A G Z G. Univ. of So. Calif. B G (Ulrey)
: :
:
;

Phillips Univ. B: E (Stanton) Univ. of Tennessee. S E Z G (E) : ; :

Princeton B G, E (G. H. Shull, Laugh- Univ. of Texas. Z G (Patterson)

:
:

lin) Univ. of Virginia. Ed E (Heck) :

Purdue Univ. A: G (Smith) Univ. of Washington S: (E) (Beach)

Eadcliffe Coll. Bot G, E (East) Z : ; :
Z: G, (E) (Kincaid)
E! (Little) Univ. of Wisconsin. A: G (Cole) ; B:
R. L State Coll. A: G (Cooley) G (Overton, Allen)Z G, E (Guyer) ; :

Rutgers Coll. Z: G (Chidester) Univ. of Wyoming A G Z G : ; :

Smith ColL S: E (Chapin) Z: G ; Vassar Coll. Z G :

(Wilder, Lynch) Virginia Polytech. Inst. A: G (Price)

State Coll. of Washington A G (Mon- : Washing-ton Univ. Z: G (Abbott)
roe) ;Z: G (Melander) Wellesley Coll. Z G, : E (-'Robertson)
Swarthmore Coll. B G (Palmer) :
West Virginia Univ. A: G (Alder-
Syracuse Univ. Z G, E (Hargitt): man) Z: G, E (Reese)
;

Teachers Coll. Ed: (E) (Bisch) Yale Univ. B: G (Painter)

Transylvania Univ. B G (Hemenway) :

Tulane Univ. Anat: (E) (Bean)

Univ. of Calif. A: G (Babcock, Clau-
sen) ;An: G (Kroeber) Z G, E ; :
NEWS AND NOTES.
(Holmes, Gates) The annual meeting of the Board
Univ. of Chicago. S: (E) (Field) Z: ; of Directors of the Eugenics Record
G, E (Tower, Newman) Office was held at Cold Spring Harbor
Univ. of Cincinnati. Z : G (Wieman) April 8.
Univ. of Denver. S : E ! (Warfield) In the month ending March 15, Pro-
Univ. of Illinois. A: G (Detlefsen) ; B: fessor T. H. ^lorgan gave four lectures
G (Hottes) ; S: E (Todd).; Z: G, E at Princeton University under the gen-
(Zeleny) eral title " A Critique of the Theory
Univ. of Iowa. Bot : G (Wylie) of Evolution."
28 EUGENICAL NEWS
The "Annual Report of the Smith- fore reforestation cost the State $7
sonian Institution," 1915, tells of the per acre.
expedition of Dr. V. Schuck, anthro- Dr. Charles B. Davenport, resident
polog^ist of Prag-ue, Bohemia, to the director, visited Ann Arbor, Michigan,
Zulus of Natal to study the negro child March 21, and addressed the Michigan
in its native environment. If properlv Academy of Science on the Relation
*'

collected the data should be of great of Juvenile Promise to Adult Perform-

use in interpreting abnormal and " in- ance." He also spoke before Dr. Otto
fantile " types in this country. Glaser's class in Michigan University
The faculty of the Medical College on the importance of keeping family
of Virginia offered their " First Series records and explained the use of our
of Popular Lectures " during the " Record of Family Traits " schedules.

month of March. There were four lec- Professor Glaser is making use of
tures in the series, two of which were these schedules with his classes. Dr.
on " Pride in Ancestry and What we Davenport also visited the Eugenics
Owe to Future Generations," by Dr. Registry at Battle Creek, which is in
E. C. L. Miller, and "Rights of the charge of Miss Marjorie Fulstow, '14,
Unborn Child," by Dr. Greer Baugh- under the direction of Dr. Kellogg;
man. and on his return stopped at Collins,
A course of seven free lectures on X. Y., saw ^liss Florence Armstrong,
" Constructive Eugenics " is being '15, who is doing the field work for
given under the direction of Paul the Gowanda State Hospital and ad-
Popenoe, of the American Genetic As- dressed the staff.
sociation, March 14 to April 25, be-
fore the Washington (D. C.) Y. M. C. AMONG THE JOURNALS.
A. The several speakers are Paul desirability of advancing to the
The
Popenoe, Prof. Roswell H. Johnson, utmost the progress in school of those
Alexander Johnson, Arthur E. Hamil- especially well endowed is urged by
ton, and Alexander Graham Bell. Parke R. Kolbe in " School and So-
The city of Akron, Ohio, is begin- cle tj' " for March 11.
ning an educational campaign in the Mr. Joseph F. Gould of the Eugenics
"
interests of improved social conditions. Record Office reviews in the " Survey
Prof. A. B. Plowman gave the first ad- a book by Dr. R. W. Shufeldt on the
dress before the members of the negro and one by Dr. and Mrs. Healy
.

Young Men's Business Club on prob- on pathological lying, accusations,

lems of eugenics and heredity. and swindling.
Any method by which the per capita The " Journal of Heredity " for Feb-
cost of caring for the feeble-minded or ruary contains a group photograph of
by which the feeble-minded may re- eleven daughters of Brigham Young
pay the state for their care is of eu- by eight different mothers and calls
genical import. Dr. Charles Bernstein attention to certain clear points of
is placing boys from the Rome State resemblance-^among them and of each
Custodial Asylum in the Adirondacks to Brigham Young.
where they are engaged in reforesting The " Chicago INledical Recorder
some of the hundred thousand acres for February publishes a paper on
of burned or denuded land in the re- "Heredity as Applied to Eugenics"
gion of Indian Lake, N. Y. Dr. Bern- which was read by Dr. Oscar Price
stein says that he can complete the before the West Side Therapeutic
reforesting within ten years. Hereto- Club of that city.
 EuGENiCAL News
VOL. I. MAY, 1916. NO. 5.

HEREDITY OF GENERAL GRANT. when he once took hold." His father

was dogged in his self education and
Ulysses S. Grant, b. Southern Ohio,
later in his demand of favors for his
April 27, 1822, graduated from West
family from his son. Son Jesse in-
Point Military Academy in 1843,
sisted on sitting with Queen Victoria
fought with extraordinary merit in
at table, to which his parents only
Mexico, married, and did garrison duty had been invited. Of pioneer stock,
in California, Leaving the army in Grant " alwaj^s had a great desire to
'54 he tried farming for iwo years, travel." War was consonant with this

lived unsuccessfully in St. Louis and instinct, which led him later to make
then clerked in his father's store for his world trip. Associated was his
a year before the Civil War broke supreme love of horses from earliest
out. Appointed colonel of volunteers, childhood. Grant had the courage and
he Avas soon put in command of the daring of his military paternal an-
lower Ohio river and, with the aid of cestors, was one of the most daring
gunboats, captured Forts Henry and of the lieutenants in Mexico, and later
Donaldson and cleared western Ten- gained the tribute of his troops,
" Ulysses doesn't scare worth a damn."
nessee. Cooperating with the navy he
captured Vicksburg and opened the en- So, too, his son Fred before Vicks-
tire Mississippi river, July, '63. As burg. Grant showed strategic in-
sight, already in iSIexico, in the Mis-
major general he commanded the ar-
mies of Sherman, Thomas, Burnside, campaigns, before Cattanooga
sissippi

and Hooker which at Chattanooga en- and

Virginia.in Like most great
strategists he excelled in mathematics.
tered the wedge that later split the
Confederacy. Placed now in command His father was scholarly, his
mother
of all armies, March, '64, after stub- thoughtful. Like his father
and son,
born fighting, the " man on horse- Ulysses, Jr., Grant was good at busi-

back " forced Lee's surrender and the ness, was regimental quartermaster,
fall of the Confederacy. Favoring a did fairly well in his father's store,
general amnesty towards the South he in late life became a banker but was
was brought in conflict with Presi- betrayed.
dent Johnson, and became twice Temperamentally, Grant was a
elected President, traveled around the hypokinetic, like his mother. Silent

world, suffered a financial wreck and, and gentle, little capable of excite-

after writing his memoirs, died, 1885. ment, he rarely expressed emotion,
Grant had dogged persistence. Sent, even by swearing. Stimulants were
at twelve, to drive home a load of logs, craved to lift the brakes from the
but finding the lumbermen gone, he vital mechanism.
loaded the logs alone. He never To cope successfully with a pro-
turned back or stopped until he had longed and fiercely contested war de-
accomplished what he set out to do, manded certain reactions oi the com-
whether to place a howitzer in the mander and these the assemblage of
belfrey of a Mexican church," to cap- hereditary traits found in Grant
ture Vicksburg or Richmond, or to yielded in superlative degree.
gain for his foe the clemency he had Charles King". "The True Ulysses
promised. " The old man never quit S. Grant." Philadelphia, J. B. Lippin-
cott Co. Price, $2.00 net.
JO EUGENIC A L NEWS
THE CASE OF THE ORPHANAGE. vague and undefined concepts as de- '

The " Century Mag'aziiie " begin- fective children.' mental deficiency,' '

ning- with the August, 1915, number mental defect.' defectiveness,' sub-
* ' '

contains a series of four articles writ- normality' and 'feeble-mindedness,'

ten by the director of an orphan asy- 'moronity' and 'criminal imbecility'
lum. The articles (entitled "Dear when applied
to mentalities of ten
Enemy") are a collection of letters years and over and to base vital prac-
written to the most generous founder tical action on diagnoses based on
and a few personal friends. In these such vague concepts is not only inex-
letters the management of an orphan- cusable but it constitutes a positive
age is discussed in its many ramifica- bar to sane progress in the study of
tions. Constructive and destructive the problem of mental deviation."
trustees, richand poor neighbors, the
consulting physician, the servant prob- THE JUVENILE DELINQUENT.
lem and the problem of the orphans
themselves are thoughtfully, cleverly Dr. Thomas H. Haines, Clinical Di-

and wittily discussed. The writer dis- rector of the Bureau of Juvenile Re-
search, at Columbus, Ohio, has re-
closes an unusual understanding of
eugenical principles and great apti-
ported on the " Mental Examination
tude in applying this knowledge to of Juvenile Delinquents." He con-
cludes " The Point-Scale for measur-
the welfare of the John Grier Home. :

ing mental ability, as contrasted with

the Binet-Simon scale, affords a more
reasonable basis for separating those
MEASURE OF MENTALITY.
adolescent offenders who are offenders
In January number of the
the because of mental deficiency." " The
" Journal of the American Institiite most conservative count, those who are
of Criminal Law and Criminology feeble-minded by both the Year-Scale
Dr. J. E. W. Wallin writes of "Who and the Point-Scale, yields twen-
. . .

is Feeble-Minded ? " He has tested a ty-four per cent. Of nearly all others
number of economically and socially it can be said they are so poorly en-

successful adults in Iowa, five fresh- dowed by heredity that reform is out
man girls in a college, and one boy, of the question. What is most im-
a senior in a high school in Missouri. portant to the judge and to other
He rated the adult-s by the intelligence arms of the social service dealing with
quotient and that, so ranked they prov- the delinquent adolescent his ability

ed to be imbecile and showed absolute to learn and to perform, his adapta-

retardation was, of course, simply be- bility,the character of his loves and
cause the Binet test used can not be hates, and the tenacity of his pur-

applied properly to adults to measure

poses must Ik? learned by further

retardation. All of the subjects men- testing anC the study of his person-
-^'
ality."
tioned in the poorly schooled groups
graded feeble-minded on tne basis of
the assumed Binet 12-year upper limit AN INTERESTING COURT
of feeble-mindedness. Out of the stu- DECISION.
dent group not a single subject passed The "Public Health Reports" for
all the Binet tsts.
individual Dr. March 17. p. 733. gives an account of
Wallin says "The present-day tend- an interesting decision rendered by
ency to play fast and loose with such the New Jersey Court of Chancery in
 EUGENICAL NEWS 31

a case of concealment of insanity in work consists of a compilation of jjer-

his family by one party to a mar- sonal data of the early Scandinavian
riage. According' to this decision " A
immigrants collected chiefly from con-
marriage can not be annulled by a temporaneous records. The author
court of equity for fraudulent con- has confined himself rigidly to facts
cealment by one party of his or her and excerpts and has indulged but
physical condition unless the disease little in discussion of the significance
is of such a nature as to render con- of his findings. The field which he
tact seriously dangerous to the other has explored is largely virgin soil
party." In this case " The plaintiff and he has seemingly exhausted the
(the wife) asked the court to an- subject. The work will prove a most
nul the marriage on the ground that valuable source book for the sociolo-
the husband concealed from her the gist, the eugenicist, and the genealo-
fact that he was afflicted with a taint gist seeking for data of this early
of hereditary insanity. Some years period. To one familiar with the cus-
after the marriage the husband had toms of the Dutch regime and the
become insane. The court refused to character of these early records it is
annul the marriage because : ( 1 ) It simply amazing that Professor Evjen
was not clearly proved that the in- should have had the courage to under-
sanity was hereditary; and (2) the take the sorting out of the Scandina-
concealment of insanity in the family vian elements of this early migratory
was not such a fraud as would jus- movement. It is equally surprising
tify the court in annulling the mar- how successful he has been in iden^
riage." tifying the nativity of so many. In
The case is of further interest from the 44 years covered by his researches
the fact that the husband believed he identifies 57 Norwegian immigrants
that he had inherited a tendency and 5 others probable 97 Danes and ;

to insanity and that he would trans- 7 others probable and 34 Swedes, a

;

mit it to his child and in confirma- total of nearly 200 Scandinavians in

tion of his belief he became perma- an aggregate population in New Neth-
nently insane six years after his mar- erland of about 10,000 in 1664. New
riage. There was no evidence of in- Netherland was in every respect the
sanity in any lineal ancestor, but a most democratic colony on the con-
maternal uncle and a paternal cousin tinent. The Scandinavians inter-
had become insane, showing the pres- married freely among themselves and
ence of the taint in both sides of his with the Dutch and only in a slightly
house. less degree with the German and
French elements of the population.
SCANDINAVIAN IMMIGRANTS. As a consequence we find in nearly
An important contribution to the every important family of to-day that
study of the formation of the *' Amer- traces back to early New York "Dutch "
ican Eace " has recently come from ancestry one or more infusions of
the hand of Dr. John O. Evjen, pro- Scandinavian blood. In fact many
fessor of church history in Augsburg families may be shown to have a single
Seminary, Minneapolis, Minn., entitled Scandinavian ancestor in common.
" Scandinavian Immigrants in New The lamous Anneke Jans, who is
York 1630-1674."* The bulk of this shown to be Norwegian, is a common
*K. C. Holder Publishing- Co., 1916, ancestor in at least eleven of our best
Minneapolis, Minn. 438 pp. Price, " families.
$2.50.
known old " Dutch
32 EUGENICAL NEWS
EUGENICAL NEWS. Record Office before June 17 if you
expect to attend so that it may be
Published monthly by The New Era Print-
ing Company, 41 North Queen St., known how many imi.st be provided
Lancaster, Pa., for the for.

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Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, N. Y.
RECORDS OF STATE WARDS.
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Subscription twenty-five cents for six numbers,
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postage. partment of Charities and Corrections,
Application made for entry as Second Class Matter,
Lancaster. Pa.
Trenton, N. J. The reports sent in
from the various state institutions are
May, 1916. on large sheets which furnish, in ad-
dition to personal data concerning
THE EUGENICS CONFERENCE. each inmate, the names and a brief
Field workers aud others interested note of the cacogenic traits of the
in eugenics are urgently invited to parents. The Department keeps a
meet at Cold Spring Harbor on Fri- card index of inmates of all institu-
day, June 23, for an informal confer- tions alphabetically arranged accord-
ence and the discussion of matters of ing- to institutions. AVe do not under-
common interest. Let each one come stand that this index furnishes any
prepared to take an active part in the data as to family connections or
proceedings and opportunity will be traits. The index has been in use
given for every one to express his about ten years and has an active en-
views on the practical as well as the rollment of about 13,500 names.
theoretical side of the w^ork. Fur-
ther details as to program will appear IMPORTANCE OF FIELD WORKERS.
in the next number of the " News."
Dr. "W. T. Shanahan, superintendent
Parties arriving by the train leav-
of Craig Colony lor Epileptics, N.
ing New York or Brooklj^n at 9 :00 A.
Y., in the Twenty-second Report of
M. and reaching Cold Spring Harbor
that institution says, " The importance
at 10 :06 A, M. will be met and con-
of having available at all times a
veyed to Blackford Hall for the meet-
trained person who could go into the
ing. A picnic lunch will be served at various parts of the State
to ascer-
noon on the grounds of the Record
tain facts relative to the family and
Office and conveyances will be pro-
personal history of our patients would
vided for visitors returning to the
be t)f the utmost value from a scien-
city by the 4 :46 P. M. train arriving
tific standpoint." Miss Florence
in New York at 5:57 P. M. Transpor-
Smith, '13,^ the Bureau of Analysis,
tation to and from the railroad sta-
State Board of Charities, gave the
tion as well as the lunch will be fur-
Colony temporary service in eugen-
nished by the Eugenics Record Office.
ical field work. A typical heredity
Arrangements have been made for a
chart is published in the Report.
meeting of the Eugenics Research As-
sociation in conjunction with the Con-
ference. An adjourned meeting will be OUR VISITORS.
held Saturday, June 24, at the rooms Among recent visitors at the
the
of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Eugenics Record Office ma}' bo men-
Sciences. Please drop a card to the tioned :
 EUGENICAL NEWS 33

Dr. Kobert M. Yerkes, professor of Mr. Cowdery has sent in 2 pages of

Comparative Psychology of Harvard charts and 13 pages of description in-
University, cluding 61 persons from southern Cali-
Dr. Hideyo Noguchi, associate of fornia.
the Rockefeller Institute for Medical From Miss Atwood we have received
Research, and party among whom was 18 pages of charts and 60 pages of
Plon. K. Uchida, formerly governor data describing 592 persons from the
of Formosa. southern counties of Indiana.
Dr. Francis G. Benedict, director of Miss Douglas has reported 10 pages
the Nutrition Laboratory, Carnegie of charts and
28 pages of data includ-
Institution of Washington.
ing 157 persons from western Connec-
Gerald Lightfoot, secretary to the
ticut and eastern New York.
Advisory Committee to formulate pro-
Dr. Crane has turned in 59 pages of
posals to the Commonwealth of Aus-
charts and 213 pages of data includ-
tralia to establish a Commonwealth
ing 1113 persons from Arkansas.
Bureau of Science and Industry, who
Miss Huschka has deposited with
was on his way from Australia to
England in the company of the Aus- the office 2 pages of charts and lb
tralian Prime Minister.
pages of description including 41 j)tir-
Professor Maurice Caullery, of the sons from New York City.

University of Paris and now exchange Miss Martin has sent in 7 x^ages of
professor at Harvard University. charts and 52 pages of data describ-
Professor Ramon Salas-Edwards of ing 191 persons from the west end
the Catholic University, Santiago de of Long Island.
Chile, who was in this country at- Miss Thayer has reported 7 pages
tending the Pan-American Scientific oFcharts and 37 pages of data includ-
Congress in Washington and has been ing 208 persons from southeastern
visiting and examining different kinds New York.
of scientific work as carried on here. Miss Armstrong has sent in 10 pages
Dr. J. H. Kellogg, of Battle Creek, of charts and 28 pages of data in-
Michigan, founder of the Race Better-
cluding 157 persons from southwest-
ment Foundation.
ern New York.

ACCESSIONS TO THE ARCHIVES.

PERSONALS.
During the month of April the of-
Mabel Bishop, '12, is head of the
fice received 33 Records of Family
Department of Biology in Rockford
Traits and the following reports from
College, Rockford, 111.
the field.
Laura B. Garrett, '11, lecturer on
Mrs. Hathaway has deposited with
Social Hygiene, announces her re-
the a copy of an eugenical gene-
office
alogy of a f)rominent American family, moval to 529 West 138th St., New
consisting of 440 pages of typed manu- York City.
script and carefully tracing the dis- Marion Daniels, '10, is a teacher in
tribution of many traits. Boston and lives at 93 Concord Ave.,
Mr. Blades has sent in 9 pages of Somerville, Mass.
charts and 138 pages of description Margaret Beekman Abbott, '14, is

including 338 persons principally from teaching at Miss Bennett's school,

New York City. Millbrook, N. Y.
34 EUGENICAL NEWS
Katheriue M. Brown, '12, was mar- NEWS AND NOTES.
ried in 1913 to W. M. White and has
Los Angeles County, California, is
now two children, a boy and a girl. awake to the importance of scientific
She is living on Forest Koad, Fan- methods of dealing with the iuade-
wood, X. J. (juate class of the population. A com-
Lucy C. Eich. '12, is at the Post- mittee of the County Grand Jury vis-
Graduate Hospital in New York City ited the Whittier State
School and in-
assisting the Pellagra Commission in
spected the Research Department.
the preparation for publication of
The purpose of their visit was to sur-
their report on the work at Spartan-
vey the work of the institution in
burg. S. C.
order to make
a report to the state
Dr. A. J. Ivosanotf, of the Kings authorities. Their report was favor-
Park State Hospital, New York, spoke able for the work of the Research De-
on April 21 at Grafton State Hos- partment and suggested that it be en-
pital, Worcester, Mass., on " Heredity larged both in resident and field work.
in delation to Mental Diseases." The Rome State Custodial Asylum,
Euth J. Stocking, '12, now head of Rome, X. Y., announces the opening
the Department of Biology at Agnes of a Summer Training School for
Scott College, Decatur, Ga.,is to take Teachers, in preparation for teaching
charge of the Department of Biology special classes in the public schools
at Wells College, Aurora-on-Caj'uga, and also in institutions for the feeble-
>sew York, next year. She expects to minded, from July 3 to 29. The
give a course in Genetics there. School will be open to graduates of
Florence G. Smith, '12, is investi- normal schools and teachers' training
gator for the Bureau of Analysis and schools. Tuition is free but a charge
Investigation of the State Board of of $16 will be made for board and
Charities, Albany, X. Y. She is now lodging at the institution. The work
in residence at Craig Colon\- for Epi- will consist of lectures, observation
leptics at Sonyea, X. Y. and practice with the inmates at the
Anna M. Petersen, '14, is superin- institution. For further information
tendent of the Virginia Home and write Charles Bernstein, superintend-
Industrial School for Girls, Bon Air. ent.
Chesterfield County, Va. We are in
The Department of Research, Whit-
Annual Report " tier (Cal.) State School, has recently
receipt of her " First
which displays an intelligence, an en- issued Bulletin X'o. 1 entitled " De-
thusiasm, and a breadth of vision that fective, Delinquent, and Dependent
promises well for her success. B03S, Three Classes of State Wards,"
consisting of 16 pages. The pamphlet
isimportant because of its insistence
COLLEGE COURSES IN EUGENICS. upon the need of the study of the
hereditary factors that determine
Additions and Corbections.
these classes.
Agnes Scott Coll. B G, E (^Stocking)
:
In the" Report of the Commission
Clark Coll. B: G (Hurlin) of Education" for 1915 is given a list
Denison Univ. Z: G (Fish) of five organizations for training in
Harvard Univ. add Psy, E (Yerkes; social work, viz., Xew York School of
:

LaKue. July-Aug.) Philanthropy, organized 1904 Chicago ;

Ripon Coll. B: G (Gilman) School of Civics and Philanthropy

 EUGENICAL NEWS 35

(1907) ; Boston
School for Social Foundation. It appears that the " bet-
Workers (1904) St. Louis School of ter residence sections " show the low-
;

Social Economj^ (1905) and Pennsyl- est birth rate that the wards with
; ;

vania School for Social Service, Phila- greatest foreign and negro population
delphia (1910). Inasmuch as eugen- and most of the illiterates show the
ical field work is social work the highest infantile death rate.
Training Course of the Eugenics Rec- Dr. Walter T. Treadway, of the U.
ord Office might well be included. S. Public Health Service, reports in
Dr. Stanton Coit, of London, Eng- the "Springfield (Ills.) Survey" that
land, who has been giving a series of about 7 per cent, of the entire enroll-
lectures before the College Endowment ment of 3 public schools examined
Association of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, should be instructed in special classes.
takes the ground that race better- He states that the probation officer
ment is to be sought " through an of the juvenile court is not sufficiently
educational process which will lead informed to investigate family his-
men to chose mates who measure up tories of suspected children to bring
to the highest standards of physical out facts of heredity.
and mental perfection, rather than
through legislative measures."
That the mating of two varieties AMONG THE JOURNALS.
differing by only a few genes may re-
sult in segregation is well known.
A family absence of patellae is re-
ported by G. Rubin in " Journal of
That more distinct varieties or species
the American Medical Association
may be crossed without or with im-
Vol. 64, page 2062.
perfect segregation (as in Oenothera)
The " Jahrbucher fiir Psychiatric
has often been observed. E. E. Ciasen
und Neurologic," Vol. 34, contains an
and T. H. Goodspeed, writing in the
article by Economo on a study of
" Proceedings of the National Acad-
heredity in paranoia querulans based
emy of Sciences," April, conclude that on fourteen cases. As a result of his
in the remoter crosses there is mutual
studies he suggests that there may be
incompatibility of homologous genes, one which
two inheritable factors :

so that the interaction of the chromo- represents the disposition and one
;

somes becomes abnormal. which represents the outbreak of a

In the April number of the " Pro- psychosis.
ceedings of the National Academy of In a paper in the " Psychiatric Bul-
Sciences," W. E. Castle suggests that letin " for January Dr. Karl VonA.
the greater variability of the F^ and F, Schneider concludes that in alcoholic
hybrid generations in " blending hallucinoses the reaction is deter-
characters is not necessary evidence mined much more by constitutional
of multiple factors but is in part at factors than by alcohol. Such hal-
least due to a return to the grand- lucinoses are the reaction of a person
parental average combined with an Fi with a manic depressive makeup under
tendency due to the increased vigor of the influence of excessive alcohol.
hybrids over the unhybridized popu- The April and May numbers of the
lation. " Journal of Heredity " are of consid-
A public health survey of Spring-
erable interest to eugenicists. The
field, by Franz Schneider, Jr., first number contains an article by
Ills.,

has been published by the Russell Sage H. P. Stuckey giving an account with
36 EUGENICAL NEWS
illustrations of constricted eyelids ap- first cousins there are nine cases in
pearing- four generations of a
in females. In two of the fraternities
Georgia family a second article gives
; either parent is affected in the other
;

a summary of the Whitman-TIiddle the mother is affected. As in other

investigations with pigeons in respect published pedigrees of this disease its
to the control of sex; while a third is dominance, if there is any such, is fre-

a critical review of Dr. Davenport's quently imperfect.

recent publication on " The Feebly In- The " iiiugenics Review " for Janu-

hibited Nomadism and Inheritance of ary contains three essays, ihe first
Temperament." The May number is by Sir John Macdonell entitled
opens with a finely illustrated article " Law and Eugenics." It raises the
on twinning by Dr. C. H. Danforth, question whether perhaps the union
and there are also some striking por- of races phj^sically different may not
traits of an albino family furnished be biologically advantageous. The
by Dr. Charles B. Davenport. second essay is by Prof. J. A. Lindsay,
The new " Journal of Delinquency " " Eugenics and the Doctrine of the

published bi-monthly by the Whittier Super-Man." It concludes " the pro-

State School. Whittier, California, has duction of genius, if we limit that
just appeared. A
paper by Mr. George term to supreme achievement, is never
Ordahl gives a study of 53 male con- likely to come within the range of
victs. He concludes that 14 are feeble- biology." " The work of eugenics, in
minded. 24 committed their crimes the present immature condition of tiie
through a combination of circum- science, will probably for some time
stances which did not imply predis- be exercised mainly negatively, i. e.,
position to crime and 15 revealed men- in the endeavor to remove or mitigate
tal peculiarities which rendered it dif- certain elements \A^hich tend to cor-
ficult for them to adjust to the con-
rupt the human stock." lue third
ventions of orderly society. Mr. d.
paper is by Professor Hobert DeC.
Harold Williams describes 20 cases of
Ward, entitled " Some Aspects of Im-
delinquent boys of superior intelli-
migration to the United States in Re-
gence. The Journal includes depart-
lation to the Future American Race."
ments of book reviews, notes and news
This paper is a careful analysis of the
and recent publications.
probable effect of w^ar upon immigra-
Dr. D. A. Thom of Monson State
tion and the conclusion is reached
Hospital of Palmer, Massachusetts,
that, as in the case of past Euroj)ean
has published in the " Boston Medical
wars, this will be followed by a
and Surgical Journal" for September
greatly increased immigration into
23. 1915, a paper on the relation be-
the rnited/ States and especially of
tween the eugenic factors and the age
races from southeastern Europe.
of onset in hereditary epileps3^ Dr.
With great earnestness Ward urges
Thom concludes that when both par-
ents have epilepsy the onset of epi- the
importance of further restriction.
lepsy in the children is at an earlier No person interested in keeping the

date than in those where only one blood of the United States as high in
parent is aiTected. quality as possible will fail to wish
A family showing hereditary spinal that this essay might be read by every
ataxia is described by Dr. F. J. Far- member of the Congress of the United
nell in " Archives of Pediatrics," Jan- States as well as by the President in
uary, 1916. In three fraternities of whom the power of veto rests.
 EuGENiCAL News
VOL. I. JUNE, 1916. NO. 6.

HEREDITY OF G. H. PUTNAM. father, while an apprentice in book

stores, would read until long after
Georg"e Haven Putnam was born
April 2, 1844, at London, England,
midnight and compiled, at eighteen,
where his father, the American pub- an " Index to Universal History."
This trait came largely from the
lisher, was After three
sojourning-.
father's mother's (Palmer) side, for
trips across the Atlantic Avith his
father he finally studied here for and she taught school even after marriage
was admitted to Columbia Colleg-e, and had two cousins, sisters, that kept
1860. On account of defective eyes he a book store in Boston.
went abroad the same year, studied G. H. P. is a reformer, as was his

literature at Paris and forestry at father and his father's mother, whose
Gotting-en and returned to America, definite and progressive views led her

August, 1862. Enlisting, he was made to expound them in Biblical commen-

quartermaster, adjutant, acting major taries this woman's cousin, Elizabeth
;

and (temporarily) chaplain; saw Peabody, " found happiness in the

service in Louisiana and at Cedar fighting " for numerous reforms. He
Creek was caj)tured while trying to has highly developed social instincts.
;

bring a gun from the field and held in With comrades of his regiment, with
Libbey Prison. After the war he as- the literati of two continents, in social
sisted his father, of ^vhose publishing clubs and political committees, on
house at his death, in 1872, G. H. P. ship-board, with the Dons at Oxford
with his brother, assumed charge. and Cambridge, always he is frank,
From that time he has made almost genial and well liked. He rallied sup-
annual visits to England on behalf l^ort for interna tioual copyright and
of the firm. In his business and avo- the nomination of President Wilson.
catious he has met leading men of His father, too, had a genius for hos-
America, England and Jaj)an. He has l^itality and " getting men to work to-
taken a leading part in securing inter- gether." There is probably a family
national copyright (following in his nomadic tendency which has lent zest
father's footsteps), free trade (even to his annual business trips, and led
in books!), civil service reform, politi- his mother's brother to run away to
cal education, independence and pur- sea.
ity in politics and, at the present, fa- From both sides come a New Eng-
vorable sentiment in America for the land conscientiousness, inhibitions and
allies and a proper preparation for de- quiet tastes. Business judgment has
fense. been strengthened from the maternal
Of the traits contributing to Major side. " Preparedness " comes natur-
Putnam's reactions are love of learn- ally to the great grandson of a briga-
ing and books. He was first of his dier-general of the Pevolution, and of
class in classics and second in mathe- a minute man a man with some of
;

matics has written books on ancient

; the same blood as of Generals Israel
and mediaeval authors and, besides and Riifus Putnam.
publishing, conducts a general book
store. A brother is a publisher an- G. H. Putnam: Memories of My
; '

other, librarian of Congress. His Youth, $2.00; Memories of a Publisher,

$2.00. G. P. Putnam's Sons.
38 EUGENICAL NEWS

"THE FAMILY OF SAM SIXTY." On April 25 Superintendent Nelles

Mrs. Mary Storer Kostir, '13, has and Mr. Cowdery were called on to
written a family history under this give testimony' in a murder trial in
title published by the Ohio Board of Ventura County. Mr, Cowde\ry was
Administration, Publication No. 8, 29 asked for information as to the traits
pages. Every such family history dif- and characteristics found in the fam-
fers from every other owing to the ily histories of delinquent and feeble-
specific determiners that there are antl minded boj^s. He was also asked to
l^robably the special environment that speak at one of the meetings of the
stimulates their development. This State Conference of Social Agencies
famih' is characterized by about half on May 5 on " The Field Worker and
normal mental development combined Delinquency " explaining the value of
with almost complete lack of inhibi- eugenical field work in connection
tions in the sex sphere so that incest with state and other institutions that
and promiscuity are extraordinarily deal with delinquents or defectives.
common. Various other evidences of Dr. Williams also spoke at this con-
feeble inhibition show- themselves, ference on " Eugenics, or the Part that
such as stealing and various crimes Family History Plays in Mental Devi-
of impulse. Recurrent convulsions ation."
and nomadism are also present. Of
261 persons 3 have normal intelligence.
AN EUGENIC NOVEL.
Mrs. Kostir's work has been well done.
Fiction with a strictly eugenic motif
Will societv react?
is as yet uncommon. In " Bram of
the Five Corners "* Arnold Mulder has
EUGENICS IN CALIFORNIA. endeavored to work out a practical
It seems evident that the state of problem in eugenics from a personal
California is falling into line with re- standpoint. It is the story of a young
cent progress in dealing with the prob- man of high aspirations and noble
lem of the defective classes. We noted purposes caught unawares, while yet
last month that the Grand Jury of in the adolescent period, in the toils
Los Angeles County took favorable of the mating impulse. He becomes
cognizance of the work of the Re- unwittingly " engaged " to a girl of
search Department of the Whittier inferior capacity and defective ances-
State School. We have since learned try. Gradually as he develops to ma-
that on April 15 Superintendent Fred turity he becomes conscious of their
C. Nelles, Dr. J. Harold Williams, di- dislparity and realizes slowly the po-
rector of the Department of Research, tential disaster involved in their union.
and Mr. Karl M. Cowdery, '15, field Through tragic experiences the con-
worker, all connected with the Whit- viction is forced upon him that their
tier School, were called to a confer- marriage is impossible, yet actuated
ence with the State Board of Control by a high sense of duty he resolves
at Sacramento as the Board desired on a life of celibacy. The girl can
to learn the exact nature, purpose and not comprehend his motives the com-
;

plans of the work of the Department munity guided by its customs and be-
of Research. At the close of the con- liefs denounces his course and his own
ference the Board expressed through family condemns him. He soon finds
its chairman its approval of the work himself involved in a struggle of con-
and plans of the institution.
*A. C. McClurg and Co., Chicago.
 EUGENICAL NEWS 39

flicting" ideals. His life is filled with school. In this connection we call
tragedy which is rendered more in- special attention to an by Mr.
article
tense by the discovery of one who is A. E. Hamilton in " Good Health " for
in truth his soul's mate. May, the sixth of his papers on " The
The story brings out with great Gist of Eugenics," in which he has
force the inexorable character of cer- given a very suggestive account of a
tain inherited traits. While the author practical pioneer experiment in the
has most successfully involved his hero use of a real live baby in the training
in a tangle of perplexing problems of a group of thirty girls at a summer
and has properly brought him to a camp.
point of distraction amid the contend-
ing forces and principles to which he
is subject he does not seem to us to DEFINITION OF FEEBLE-MINDED.
have really solved the problem in a A decided advance in clear thinking
way that would be very instructive to in respect to the feeble-minded marks
others in anything like similar cir- the paper by K. Pintner and D. G. Pat-
cumstances. On the contrary having erson of the department of psychol-
brought about an apparently insolv- ogy, Ohio State University, entitled'
able situation he suddenly relieves his " A
psychological basis for the diag-
hero by a fortuitous circumstance nosis of feeblemindedness " in the
that seems to beg the question. The "Journal of Criminal Law and Crim-
story, strong as it is, leaves its moral inology " for May, 1916. Eecognizing
only half told. that the whole population varies in
intelligence by the Binet (or other)
test from above the normal to belo"s\
PRACTICE BABIES. the normal, following a probability
According to recent newspaper re- curve, the authors suggest that " the
ports the Board of Education of Pat- lowest 3 per cent, of the community
terson, N. J., has been offered the use at large, i. e., the lowest as determined
of a baby boy for their proposed spe- by definitely standardized mental
cial course in domestic science. The tests, are to be called feeble-minded.
offer is made by a woman in Camden, Objections may be urged against such
N. J., who had adopted the baby but a standard based upon the " commu-
owing to changed conditions is unable nity at large." For Nam Hollow the
to care for it. The Board is much in- lowest 3 per cent, will be very differ-
terested in the plan of training the ent than for Wall Street. Also, is
girls in the new course by actually society interested in the lowest 3 per
caring for a live baby. It is puzzling cent., as such, determined by the Binet
the teachers, however, to know what test? What society is interested in is

to do with the baby out of school the anti-social. It is more interested

hours. in the bright boy with pyromanic
This idea but a logical extension
is tendencies than in the quiet dullard
of the practice school which has long who belongs to the lower 3 per cent,
been an adjunct of our normal and but who makes a good farm hand. In
training schools for teachers. The cidentally, the new method solves the
time may come when it will be con- problem of estimating the proportion
sidered the ideal to have an orphan of feeble-minded in the population. It
annex associated with every high is three per cent, by definition.
40 EUGENICAL NEWS

EUGENICAL NEWS. STATE SURVEYS.

Publislied monthly by lender the auspices of the Commit-
THE EUGENICS RECORD OFFICE, tee on the Provision for the i'eeble-
41 North Queen St., Lancaster, Pa.
and Cold Spring- Harbor, Minded plans have been for sometime
Long- Island, N. Y under consideration for carrying out
Subscription fifty cents per year, postage free in
an extensive survey of several coun-
the United States and island possessions also ; in ties in the state of Indiana. Organi-
Canada, Mexico, (uha, and (anal Zone. In all
other countries add ton cents for postage. zation for this purpose has now been
Entered as second-chiss matter May 10, 191 fi, at
the Post Ottice at Lancjister, Pa., under the Act of
completed and the work is expected
March 3, 1879. to be started this month. Dr. A. H.

JUNE, 1916. Estabrook, '10, will have general

oversight of the work in Putnatn and
JUNE 23 AND 24, 1916. Huntington counties and Miss Edith
The plans for the joint meeting of S. Atwood. '14, is expected to serve

the Field-worker's Conference and the as his assistant. Miss Clara Pond, '14,
Eugenics Kesearch Association are has also been detailed by the Northern
about completed. We repeat in part Hospital for the Insane at Logansport
the notice of last month. The meet- to cooperate in the survey in Cass
ings will be held June
at Cold 23 County.
Spring Harbor and on June 24 at the According to an editorial in the
"
rooms of 'the Brooklyn Institute of April number of " Colorado ^fedicine
Arts and Sciences. On the 23d par- on " Feeble-Mindedness " " Colorado
ties arriving b}' the train leaving New has gotten interested and it is to be
York or Brooklj'n at 9 :00 A. M. and hoped that before long a school sur-
reaching Cold Spring Harbor at 10 :06 vey will be made in Denver to deter-
A. 'SI. will be met and conveyed to mine how many defectives we have
Blackford Hall for the meeting. A to deal with."
picnic lunch will be served at noon on It has been decided to make the
the grounds of the liecord Office and survey of a New York County, re-
conveyances will be provided for visi- ferred to in our last issue, in Nassau
tors returning to the city by the 4 :46 County. The survey will be under
P. !M. train arriving in Xew York at the direction of Dr. A. J. Rosanoff.
5 :57 P. ^r. Transportation to and About 8 field workers will be required.
from the railroad station as well as Dr. Harry W. Crane will have general
the lunch will l)e furnished by the supervision of field workers. The lat-
Eugenics Record Office. ter are now being appointed, each for
planned to make the meetings a jpp^iod of 3 or 4 months.
It is
quite informal and to allow for much
free di.scussion. There will l)e a num-
ber of short reports on eugenical THE FIRST DUTY TO THE STATE.
studies and activities instead of a few ^fr. Ethan A. Nevin, superintendent
formal papers. In order to group the of the State Custodial Asylum for
reports and arrange time for each it Feeble-!Minded Women, Newark,
is sugge.sted that you notify us as Wayne County, N. Y., writes as fol-
early as possible of the particular lows in the 31.st Annual Report of the
phase of Eugenics in which you are in- Board of Managers " Not only should :

terested and of which you will speak each woman coming to us be subjected
briefly. to a careful investigation, as at pres-
 EUGENICAL NEWS 41

ent, but the family history, the en- Cowdery's work has been done in
vironment and all of the factors that southern California but very few of
have contributed to producing' her his propositi have been born in the
mental condition should be carefully state. It is also worth noting that the
studied. Only by such careful inves- amount of wanderlust scattered
tigation and analysis of all the facts, through his reports is v6ry large.
may we hope to have reliable data and Miss Greene, of Phipp's Psychiatric
make rational progress in what is un- Clinic, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Bal-
questionably the most vitally impor- timore, has sent in 35 pages of charts,
tant problem confronting our state and 107 pages of data, describing 959
to-day. And I believe that with such person^.
reliable information, we will have less Mrs. Kostir, nee Storer, formerly of
difficulty in getting the state to make the Ohio Bureau of Juvenile Research,
proper provision for this work. Thus has deposited with the office a copy of
our first great duty to the state, to make the original data from which " The
systematic investigation of this whole Family of Sam Sixty " has been pub-
problem, we are unable to accomplish lished.
as we should because of our lack of Miss Pond, of the Logansport State
help. Our second duty is to provide Hospital, Logansport, Ind., has sent in
a comfortable home for those com- 8 pages of charts and 57 pages of data
mitted to our care, making them as characterizing 444 persons from the
contented as possible." It is a great north central counties of Indiana.
advance, thus to see a superintendent Miss Thayer has sent in 11 pages
place systematic investigation of the of charts and 48 jjages of data describ-
problems with which his institution ing 353 persons from New York City
has to deal as the first great duty to and vicinity.
the state. Miss Douglas has returned 9 pages
of charts and 38 pages of notes de-

ACCESSIONS TO THE ARCHIVES. scribing 127 persons in Hartford Coun-

ty, Conn.
During the month of ISIay there
Miss Atwood reports 9 pages of
have been received at the Office 34
charts and 34 pages of descriptions
Records of Family Traits, 1 schedule
covering 293 persons from central In-
of the Family Distribution of Per-
diana.
sonal Traits, several genealogies, many
letters containing data of consider-
able value, and the following reports PERSONALS.
from the field. L. Jean Whitney, '15, is teaching
Miss Armstrong has sent in 12 pages Biology in the Auburn, N. Y., High
of description and 2 pages of charts School. Her address is 8 John St.
plotting 65 individuals from James- Dr. D. W. La Rue, '13, is now vice-
town, N. Y., and vicinity. principal and professor of psychology
Mr. Blades has sent in 28 pages of and pedagogy in the State Normal
description, sing-le spaced, and 6 pages School at East Stroudsburg, Pa.
of charts plotting 136 individuals from Mr. Edward L. Caum, '15, is assist-
New York City. ant pathologist in the Experiment
Mr. Cowdery has sent in 7 pages of Station of the Hawaiian Sugar Plant-
charts and 54 pages of description in- er's Association, at Honolulu, T. H.
cluding 178 individuals. All of Mr. Ellen Faulkner, '13, is teaching and
42 EUGENICAL NEWS

doing- secretarial work at the Low grace and precision; they ren-
and Heywood School. Stamford. Conn. dered a tabloid version of Midsum-
Irving C. Perkins, '12, is director of mer Night's Dream with the enthu-
manual training in the Camden pub- siasm all lovers of the beautiful show
lic schools at Camden, Maine. and when the exercises were over,
Mabel A. Robey. '13. is a principal they gathered around the piano in the
teacher in the Washington public assembly hall just as you have seen
schools, of Washington, D. C. school girls do after dinner. You
D. Lucile Field Woodward, '11, now heard a laugh at every turn and you
Mrs. Brown, is a field worker for the saw not a single frown during the
New Jersey State Village for Epilep- whole time. Every cheek was rosy
tics at Skillman. X. J. and every eye was clear. If you
Florence Armstrong, '15. while on a passed from one building to the other,
short vacation recently visited the you did not see a bolt or bar. It
''
Record Office." It is understood that was to all appearances just a happy
she is to become attached permanently colony of young girls, handled with
as a field worker to the staff of the the tactful love and skillful judgment
Gowanda State Hospital. of experts.
Joseph Gould, '15. having completed "When the visitors started home,
his assignment among the Dakota In- some did not understand what
still
dians has been moving eastward by it meant. What is that place any-
'

easy stages during the past month. how,' asked a jitneur, '
a boarding
On May 12 and 15 he spoke at Howard school for girls? and when he was
'

University, Washington, D. C, on told that it used to be what we styled

" America not a Melting Pot " and on the Virginia Home and Industrial
"Race Prejudice." On May 26 he School for Girls, or, less graciously,
dropped into the " Office " for a brief '
the girls* reformatory,' he could not
visit. He will remain for a time at l^elieve it. Neither would anyone else
his home in Xorwood. Mass. who did not know the secret of Miss
Petersen's remarkable work, with the
cooperation of a sympathetic board."
KILBOURNE FARM.
The " News Leader," of Richmond,
Va., of May 4 had an interesting edi- NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF
torial commending the work of Miss CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS.
Anna M. Petersen, '14, as superin- The forty-third annual meeting of
tendent of the Virginia Home and In- the National Conference of Charities
dustrial School for Girls. Our space and Corrections met at Indianapolis,
will permit us to quote only portionsMay~10 to 17. There were 3246 per-
of the article. sons in attendance, 1535 coming from
" Kilbourne farm
'
May Day exer- outside of Indiana, while 2226 were
;

cises at Kilbourne Farm

the phrases from outside of Indianapolis. This is
'

have an unfamiliar sound. Readers the largest registration in the history

were doubtless puzzled when they of the Conference, the previous record
saw the announcement and perhaps of 2600 at Baltimore being broken.
they wondered where and what To the student of eugenics, the in-
Kilbourne farm was. The girls creased interest in mental defective-
. . .

sang with care-free hearts they ness was certainly gratifying.

; The
went through the folk-dances with section of the Conference on Feeble-
 EUGENICAL NEWS 43

Mindedness and Insanity filled the on exhibition and descrjptive litera-

large Second Presbyterian Cliurch to ture was distributed. Many visited

overflowing at all its meetings and this exhibit and an evident interest
the interest manifested in this prob- in the activities of the Record Office

lem was only surpassed by that in was aroused.

the section on the Family and the The Peverend Oscar C. McCulloch,
Community. The keynote of the whole who discovered and first investigated
conference .was rather the Tribe of Ishmael, the history of
prevention
than cure. The necessity for the which is now being studied by the
proper custodial care for the feeble- Record Office, was the President of
minded was mentioned many times, the Conference when it met in In-
as was the fact that feeble-minded- dianapolis twenty-five years ago. The
ness is now easily recognized, its Reverend Francis H. Gavisk, the x^res-

causes are known, and the part that ent President of the Conference, re-
mental defectiveness plays in social ferred to Mr. McCulloch as the lead-
problems is now well understood. ing social worker of Indiana at that
Mr. J. P. Byers, secretary of the Com- time and paid a very touching tribute
mittee on Provision for the Feeble- to his memory. The gavel which Mr.
Minded made an earnest plea for na- McCulloch used at the National Con-
tion wide activity for more custodial ference meetings in 1891 was again
care for the feeble-minded. used at the general evening meetings
Many papers were given on " men- of the Conference in 1916 at the re-
tal tests and their value " but it was quest
of Mr. McCulloch's daughter

the general opinion that the science who now lives in Indianapolis.
of mental tests is still in its infancy The Conference meets in Pittsburgh,
and that now tests are merely short- Pa., in 1917, the next President of the

cuts to finding the social reaction of Conference being Frederick Almy,

the individual and that after all the Secretary of the Charity Organization
social reaction is the final test of a Society of Buffalo, N. Y.
person's mentality. Arthur H. Estabrook.
An exhibit portraying a hundred
years' history of the development of THE DYSGENIC FORCE OF WAR.
charities and corrections and gen-
Professor Poulton, in an article in
eral welfare in the State of Indiana the " Eugenics Review " on " Eugenic
filled the corridors of the three floors Problems after the War," agrees with
of the imposing State House at In- Mr. Darwin, president of the Society,
dianapolis. The Eugenics Eecord Of- that " war unquestionably killed off
fice exhibited a cloth the better types and was, therefore, highly
chart of
Harrison family of Indiana which dysgenic." He speaks of the young
has produced two presidents of the men who have willingly gone forth
United States as well as many others from Oxford and from Cambridge for
in public service, a chart showing the their country and for the liberty of
inheritence of pre-senile cataract, a the world. Their courage is intellec-
chart showing the inheritance of al- tual and moral rather than physical,
binism, and a hj^pothetical pedigree so they are precisely the men we most
showing the manner of inheritance of need in the great social reconstruc-
feeble-mindedness. Besides this, pub- tion that is coming." A recent Head-
lications of the Eecord Office were master's Conference voted that " in
44 EUGEXICAL NEWS

the opinion of this Conference very essays on *' Influence of Social Bet-
grave loss to the country is caused by terment of Families on Eugenics," has
the employment of young: students of decided to make the awards on July
exceptional mathematical and scien- 31. 1916.
tific ability as subalterns in line bat- President E. E. Rittenhouse, of the
talions." Thus in the ultimate stress Life Extension' Institute, has pub-
of a terrific war the fundamental dif- lished an address on "National Vital-
ferences in value of men for g-reat ity and National Defense Why a Na- :

social undertaking's is recognized. tional Vitality Commission is Needed."

Attention is called to the marked de-
PRESS PRODUCTS. crease of the marriage rate and birth
"Eugenics for Ta rents and Teach- rate. "A large proportion of our 17
ers " is the name of a brochure by '
million unmated men and women
Uldrick Thompson, The Kamehameha should be married." The pajier con-
Schools, Honolulu. Hawaii. It seeks eludes " Eugenics
:
the improvement
to create an interest in the subject on
of the breed the general question of
which, to quote the author, " nothing race protection, should receive na-
constructive is being done." tional recognition and a sincere effort
" Genetics and Eugenics," by Pro- ,
should be made to impress the public
fessor William E. Castle, is announced with their true purpose and impor-
as about to be issued from the Har- tance."
vard University Press. Tlie work is to
be a textbook for students of biology EUGENICS IN THE JOURNALS.
and a work of reference for animal The "
Eugenics Review " for April
and plant breeders. contains three principal papers, one
A thoroughgoing study, with numer- by Professor MacBride. entitled "The
ous tables and graphs, of the heights Study of Heredity " one by Professor
:

and weig-hts of New York City chil- Poulton, " Eugenic Problems after the
dren fourteen to sixteen years of age War." commented on in another part
made by Drs. E. K. Frankel and Louis of this issue anil one l)y Professor J.
:

I. Dublin has been published by the "

A. Thomson. The Biological Theory
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company of Nature."
of New York as a 53-page pamphlet. The " Journal of Heredity " for
June has as usual an interesting selec-
NEWS AND NOTES. tion of articles for eugenieists. We
According to the last " Bulletin of may note, first, " War. Immigration,
the Census Bureau on Mortality " in Eugenics." the third report of the
the 67 cities in which colored popula- ConiMittee on Immigration of the
tion constituted 10 per cent, or more American Genetic Association; in the
of the total in 1910, the death rate second article Dr. O. F. Cook discusses
among the whites in 1913 was 15.3 " Eugenics and Agriculture " while a :

per thousand, while anK)ng the colored third "Testing Criminal Of-
article,
population it was 26.8 per thou.sand. fenders," is a description of the work-
It is announced in " Science " that ing of the recently inaugurated Psy-
the Berlin Society of Social Hygiene, chopathic Laboratory in connection
which shortly after the iH^ginning of with police headquarters in New York
the war postponed indefinitely the City. The last article is well illus-
awarding of the prizes for the best trated.
 EuGENiCAL News
VOL. I. JULY, 1916. NO. 7.

HEREDITY OF WOODROW WILSON. became a leading professor of science

Woodrow Wilson was born at in the South. Woodrow Wilson is
also a born teacher, his tastes lead-
Staunton, Va., December 28, 1856, of
ing him to abandon law, as his father
a Scotch-Irish Presbyterian strain
had the ministry, for teaching. His
attended schools in the south, gradu-
mother's father and her brother James
ated at Princeton, A.B., 1879 studied ;

were notable teachers. Woodrow Wil-

law, graduated Ph.D. in jurisprudence
son has a literary gift, which was his
and politics from Johns Hopkins
chief distinction as a Princeton stu-
taught history and politics at Bryn
dent, and has given a decidedly rare
Mawr, '85-88, and at Wesleyan, '88- quality to his state papers and diplo-
'90; also jurisprudence at Princeton, matic correspondence. Similarly his
of which college he was elected presi- uncle James's essay " Evolution " deep-
dent, 1902, having shown an unusual ly stirred social and theological circles
insight into the needs of higher edu- and his writings in general show " lu-
cation and insisted upon its disciplin- cid diction, classical correctness and
ary value. Early led to consider the epigrammatic terseness of stj^le."
whole field of American history, espe- Wilson has always led and admin-
cially cabinet congressional gov- istered effectively, whether as a man-
vs.
ernment, he easily entered into discus- ager of an athletic team or the
sions of political questions of the day " Princetonian," as political reformer,
and was chosen governor of New Jer- college president, governor, or presi-
sey. He now assumed the leadership dent of the republic. His social in-
of his party, showed a masterly hand- stincts are largely developed he is ;

ling of politicians and ability to put affable, conversational, anecdotic, and

through a program of reforms. Elected even jocular, just like his father yet ;

President in 1912, he became the na- there is a tinge of diffidence, as in his

tional party leader and again showed uncle James. He has marked in-
unusual success in securing desired dustry, concentration and capacity for
legislation. He has handled delicate getting through work without strain.
international situations arising from His uncle James became president of
a " world Avar " with patience and a a state university of him one says ;

large measure of success. His party, " His executive ability was truly
satisfied, have renominated him. marvellous he could do more things
;

Woodrow Wilson has a love of learn- well than anyone I ever knew." Wil-
ing that led him to advanced study son is a clear and ready speaker and
and the professional vocation. He when James Woodrow was stirred
prefers philosophy and the humani- " his speech flowed full and free."
ties to natural science. His father The President is open to advice, but
was valedictorian of his class and pre- forms his conclusions in solitude and
ferred professional work to pastoral. is tenacious of them. His uncle James
His mother's brother Robert, who died underwent a heresy trial and loss of
prematurely, showed " phenomenal his professorship through stubborn
scholarship and Robert's brother adherence to his views.
;

James studied, with Agassiz, gained H. J. Ford. "Woodrow Wilson: The

the degree of Ph.D. at Heidelberg, and Man and His Work." D. Appleton &
Price,
Co., 1916. $1.25.
46 EUGENICAL NEWS

HEREDITARY EYE DEFECTS. latter were quite independent of the

Dr. C. H. Danforth in a paper on former. Professor Coulter is too good
" Some Aspects of the Study of Hered- a biologist for us to believe that by
" physical qualities " he means mere
itary Eye Defects" published in the
" American Journal of Ophthalmol- brawn. The finer and more subtle
qualities of brain and nerve, on which
og-y " discusses some of the funda-
mental problems in the study of so largel}' depends the power to de-

heredity and calls attention to the ad- velop that ability and intelligence

vantajire of the study of human eye

that is distinctive of the human ani-
defects for attacking- some of these mal, are none the less " phj'sical." As
"
problems. lie says, however, there is he further states, heredity determines
a tendency among ophthalmologists the number and kind of capabilities,"
" to report only the striking cases and and we may add that this evidently
involves also the degree of possible
to overlook or disregard the sup-
posedly normal relatives of an affected response to the " stimulating oppor-
tunity." It is undoubtedly true that
parent." Complete " family histories
" ability and
are important if we are really to no organism can develop
" stimulating
understand the workings of heredity." intelligence " without
He further suggests. " that in a center opportunity." It seems equally true
of population . the local ophthal-
. .
that the " stimulating opportunity " is
mologists report all cases of the eye just as impotent without the organism.
defects whose heredity it is desired
to study to a secretary or other per- A MODERN SOLOMON.
son whoshould correlate such reports
A decision was recently rendered by
and keep them open for consultation
Judge Tierney of Bronx Borough, New
by members of the profession." "We
York City, that is of special interest
may add that such a plan will only to eugenicists. Two women claimed
partially accomplish its end unless it
mother of the same child,
to be the
be supplemented by the studies of a
the custody of which the relator
well-trained field worker who shall
sought to obtain by a writ of habeas
carefully elaborate the data with the
corpus. The respondent who had pos-
fam.ily network involved in each case.
session of the child was a black wo-
man and the man claimed by her to
HEREDITY AND ENVIRONMENT. be the father of the child was also
In a recent address before the Eu- black. The child was of so light a
genics Education Society in Chicago complexion as not easily to be dis-
Professor John M. Coulter is quoted tinguished from a white child. While
as saying " that the chief value of other^ considerations were noted in
eugenics is in building up physical the Judge's decision the following
qualities and that with respect to de- passages are of special interest " The :

velopment of ability and intelligence science of heredity is not yet so exact

heredity is far less important than as to be accepted as definitely under-
the environment of stimulating op- stood, but the people had found out
*

portunity.' " We fail to understand before Mendel attempted to reduce the

why the distinction between " phys- chances of reversion to type to uni-
ical qualities " and the " development form rules that two black people did
of ability and intelligence " should be not have white or light-colored off-
so strongly marked, as though the spring. The resemblance of the child,
 EUGENICAL NEWS 47

who is now some five years old, to the indulge in vague notions about hered-

father claimed for it by the relator ity. If you want the facts, let some
is so striking- as to seem to preclude one work up your fainily records as

a mere coincidence. The child is also we have worked up those described

of the same complexion as the relator in this paper. It will not do to go to
and both these alleged parents are a physician and ask What do you :

persons of nearly white complexion, think of heredity? But you must say:
resembling- the child in this respect. I want somebody put on the job of
In this case the coincidences persuade getting my family record worked out
me that the relator is the mother of and then I want your advice on vari-
this child." ous questions. No physician should
prostitute himself by giving his opin-
GENEALOGICAL RECORD OFFICE. ion without having the fainily studied
Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, chair- properly." He urges further that
man of the Board of Scientific Direc- banns of marriage should be always
tors of the Eugenics Eecord Office, is issued three weeks
in advance and ;

one of the first in this country to that young people in selecting a mar-
have made scientific studies on hered- riage mate should think of their chil-
ity. Some two years ago he founded dren. We rejoice that " The Survey,"
the Genealogical Eecord Office for the which has not always appreciated the
study of longevity. Miss Louise E. importance of heredity, gives promi-
Lacey has acted as secretary of this nent place to these wise words.
office from the start. Something over
8,000 names are on record of persons VARIATION AND ENVIRONMENT.
who have passed 90 years of age and Deer-mice (genus Peromyscus) are
500 more are over 100 years old. It distributed over the United States and
is found that those who live to a great many species are recognized. Dr.
age have had a high fecundity and Francis B. Sumner who has thought
this is associated with the fact that he has found by experiment that in
they belong mostly to humble walks tame mice there is a slight hereditary
of life and are not cursed with too infiuence of temperature and moisture
much ambition and drive. The most has sought to find a relation between
striking fact about these old people climatic conditions and the specific
is that they belong to families char- differences among the deer mice of

acterized by longevity. California. According to his paper as

published in the " American Natural-
DR. MEYER ON HEREDITY. ist " for November, 1915, he finds, in-
Eminently well judged and fit words deed, that the northernmost species
are written by Dr. Adolf Meyer, of has exceptionally long tail and feet,
Johns Hopkins Hospital, in the " Sur- but this is in opposition to " Allen's
vey " for June 3 under the title " The law" (based on other species) that
Right to Marry." It is an appeal to peripheral parts shorten as we go
face the facts of heredity unfortunate northward. There probably is no
heredity like facts of natural his- generally valid law of this sort. Where
tory, like the facts of curly hair or a species which has its center in the
blue eyes. We admit some traits forest has spread over to the desert
freely but foolishly hide others, it still retains^ for generations its dark
though we are in no sense responsible color. Specific variation is wonder-
for them. He says also, " Let us not fully independent of environment.
48 EUGENICAL NEWS
each a unique combination of hered-
EUGENiCAL NEWS. itary elements has entered. In the
Published monthly by
Dacks we have a group of hyper-
THE EUGENICS RECORD OFFICE,
41 North Queen St., Lancaster, Pa. kineticswhose reactions to their en-
and Cold Spring: Harbor,
vironment a harsh environment to
Long Island, N. Y be sure are restlessness, quarrel-
Subscription fifty cents per year, postage free
someness, loquacity, abuse, pugnacity
in
the L'nitt'd States and island possessions; also in and sex offense. Drink tends to ex-
Canada, Mexico, Cuba, and Canal Zone. In all
other countries add ten cents for postage. aggerate these reactions: they are
Entered as second-class matter Mav 10, 1916, at
the Post Otfice at Lancaster, Pa., under the Act extraordiuaril}- activated bj' religious
of
March 3, 1879. and other emotional appeals. By out-
marriages which bring in new traits
July, 1916.
the picture becomes greatly compli-

WANTED. cated. Some self control is intro-

Dr. Gertrude E. Hall, director of duced and socially good strains arise
the Bureau of Analysis, Albany, X. Y., not a little hypokinesis comes in and
this, combined with excitability, yields
would be interested to learn of cases
of who are afflicted with the cases of typical manic-depressive
epileptics
reaction." The study will be of much
goitre. If such cases are discovered
please report them to her. interest to sociologists as well as to

Dr. Charles B. Davenport, Cold students of

human heredity. Price
15 cents.
Spring Harbor, X. Y., desires to re-
ceive references to one or more fra-
ternities comprising one or more EUGENICS CONFERENCE.
grown children of a South Italian The joint meeting of the Eugenics
father and an Irish mother, or other Research Association and the Confer-
combination of a short and a tall (or ence of Field Workers of the Eugenics
mediocre) race. Record Office was held according to
program at Cold Spring Harbor on
THE DACK FAMILY. June 23 and at the Brooklyn Institute
The latest publication issued by the of Arts and Science on June 24.
Eugenics Kecord Office is Bulletin Xo. The train due in Cold Spring Har-
15 entitled "The Dack Family, a bor at 10 :06 Friday morning was met
Study in Hereditary Lack of Emo- by a number of autos and by 10 :30
tional Control " by Mrs. Anna \Yendt the meeting was assembled in Black-
Finlayson, recent field worker of ford Hall. Dr. J. McKeen Cattell,
Warren State Hospital, Warren, Pa. president of the Eugenics Research
The bulletin has been published in co- Association, took the chair and the
operation with the Warren State Hos- premutation of papers and addresses
pital which has borne a considerable became at once the order of the day.
portion of the expense. The charac- Dr. Grertrude Hall, director of the Bu-
ter of the .study may be mo.st readily reau of Analysis and Investigation,
presented by quoting from the pre- State Board of Charities of Xew York,
face which is by Dr. C. B. Davenport. opened the session with a paper on
" The present study is of especial the " Status of Feeble-Minded in New
value since it illustrates again the York State, 1916" and was followed
fact that the a])errant behavior of with papers by her assistants, Miss
each famil3' group is stamped with its Marion Collins on " The early Develop-
peculiar characteristics because into ment of Feeble-Minded Children " and
;
\
 EUGENICAL NEWS 49

Miss Catherine E. Conway on a " Prob- Vineland, N. J., described a " Case of
able Case of Hereditary Nosebleed." Friedreich's Ataxia in Five Persons of
Miss Laura B. Garrett, of New York One Fraternity " ; Miss Ethel Thayer,
City, then spoke on " Eugenics for of Letchworth Village, Thiells, N. Y.,
JLlttle Folks and Young People " and gave an account of the progress of
Miss Elizabeth Greene, field worker at " Sterilization in California " Mr. Jo- ;

Phipps Psychiatric Clinic, presented a seph Gould discussed some of the ques-
paper on " The Locust Point Defec- tions suggested by his recent work
tives." Dr. Wilhelmina Key, psychol- among the Indians of North Dakota,
ogist of the State Institution at Polk, and Dr. Stewart Paton, lecturer on
Pa., and Dr. E. C. Eowe, psychologist biology, Princeton University, urged
of the Psychopathic Laboratory, New the importance of establishing psy-
York spoke informally of prob-
City, chiatric clinics in our universities.
lems suggested by their work and The Saturday morning session was
many took part in the discussions fol- opened at 10 o'clock at the Brooklyn
lowing each subject. The morning Institute of Arts and Science, with
session was closed by Dr. C. B. Daven- Dr. C. B. Davenport in the chair.
port with a presentation of some of Resumes of their work were presented
his findings in the study of the " In- by Mr. H. H. Laughlin, Dr. H. J.
heritance of Human Stature." Banker, Mr. Tracy Tuthill, Miss Mary
Lunch was served on the grounds of Clark, Mrs. D. Lucile Brown, and Mr.
the Eugenics Eecord Office and an William F. Blades.
hour or more was spent in sociability In addition to those mentioned
and inspecting the work of the Record above the following were in attend-
Office while the Council of the Eugen- ance at the Conference Mrs. Eliza- :

ics Research Association held its ses- beth V. H. Mansell, superintendent.

sion. The company then assembled State Home for Girls, Trenton, N. J.
for the afternoon session on the ISIrs. Joseph ]Middleton, trustee of State
circle beneath the shade of the spruces Home for Girls, Trenton, N. J. Dr. ;

so familiar to the members of the C. H. Danforth, associate professor of

field worker's classes. The first part anatomy, Washington University Med-
of the session was occupied with the ical School, St. Louis, Mo. Mrs. Wini- ;

business meeting of the Research As- fred Hathaway, genealogist. New York
sociation at which a number of new City ; Dr. Elizabeth B. Muncey, eugen-
members were voted in and the an- icist, Eugenics Record Office ; Dr.
nual election of officers was held. Dr. Harry W. Crane, superintendent of
Adolf Meyer, director of the Phipps field workers, Nassau County Survey
Psychiatric Clinic, was elected presi- Miss Sara K. Kirk, research worker.
dent and Mr. William F. Blades was State Institution for Feeble-Minded,
rechosen secretary-treasurer. The re- Vineland, N. J. Miss Sybil Hyatt, New;

mainder of the session was occupied York City Miss Elizabeth V. Gaines,
;

with pax3ers and informal talks. Miss professor of biology, Adelphi College,
Ethel Macomber, of the Massachusetts Brooklyn, N. Y. Miss Florence Arm- ;

School for Feeble-Minded, Waverly, strong, field worker, Gowanda State

read a paper on " The Use of the Hospital, Collins, N. Miss Myrtle Y". ;

Family History in Out-Patient Clin- F. Smart, field worker, New Jersey

ics " Miss Elizabeth Horton, of the
; State Hospital, Morris Plains, N. J.
State Institution for Feeble-Minded, Miss Florence G. Smith, investigator.
 ;;

50 EUGENICAL NEWS

Bureau of Analysis and Investigation, PERSONALS.

Albany, N. Y. Miss Mildred Slaughter,
; ^label C. Iluschka, '14, has accepted
research worker, Essex County Hos- a position as field-worker with the
pital, Cedar Grove, N. J. Miss Sadie ; Bedford Hills Reformatorj'. Her work
E. Myers, secretary and field worker will be chiefly in New York Citj'.
for the Utah Commission on Feeble- Mrs. Anna W. Fiulayson, '12, author
Minded, Salt Lake Cit}' Mrs. Stewart ;
of Bulletin 16 on " The Dack Family "
Paton, Princeton, N. J. Miss Rosa E. ;
recently published by the Eugenics
Prigosen, Brooklyn, N. Y. Miss Mar- ;
Record Oftice, resigned her position as
garet Otis, New York Citj* Miss Ro- ;
field-worker for the Warren State
salie G. Jones, Syosset, N. Y. Mrs. ;
Hospital, Warren, Pa., on Julj' 1.

William Crawford, California Miss ;

Jessie Taft, Ph.D., '12, director of
Dorothy P. Tuthill, Brooklyn, N. Y. the Social Service Department of the
Mr. Owen Cattell, Garrison, X. Y. ; Mr. ^lental
Committee of the
H3'giene
Halsey J, Bagg, New Y^ork City. State Charities Aid Association, has
written an article entitled " Is there
ACCESSIONS TO THE ARCHIVES. Anything the Matter with your Child's
Genealogies, 14.
Mind?" that appeared in a recent
Record of Family Traits, 70.
number of the " Housewives' League
Magazine."
Field Reports :

Sadie R. Myers, '15, has been ap-

Miss Armstrong desc. 7 pp. chts. pointed secretary and field-worker of
; ;

1 ; indiv's. 19 Jamestown, N. Y., and a Commission for investigating feeble-

;

vie.
mindedness in Utah. Miss Myers has
Mr. Cowdery desc. 48 pp. chts. 9
; ;
been East on a brief visit since the ;

indiv's. 276 Los Angeles, Calif.

;
close of her school work and was pres-
Miss Thayer desc. 13 pp. chts. 3
;
ent at the Eugenics Conference, June
; ;

indiv's. 82 ; New Y^ork City. 23 and 24.

Miss Douglass ; desc. 44 pp. ; chts.
J. Theron Illick, '14, who has been
12; indiv's. 181; Hartford Co., Conn. instructor in Zoology at the Univer-
Miss Earle ; from literature, desc. sity of West Virginia, Morgantown,
29 pp. during the past year, expects W. Va.,
Contributions : to sail for China in September to
Miss Elizabeth Greene, Phipps Psy- engage as a missionarj' in educational
chiatric Clinic, Johns Hopkins Hos- work at Nanchang.
pital, Baltimore, Md. desc. 106 pp. Dr. Phyllis Greenacre, '13, received
;

chts. 32; indiv's. 1843. her medical degree from the Rush
Mrs. Winifred Hathaway, one of Medical School, Chicago, in June and
the first of the eugenical genealogists, witlr-receive an interneship under Dr.
has deposited a chart of 32 pp. and Adolf Meyer of the Phipps Clinic, Bal-
522 pp. of description giving biolog- timore, Md., in September.
ical data concerning 640 individuals Dr. C. H. Danforth, '13, is associate
of one family. in anatomy in the Washington Uni-
Dr. David F. W^eeks, superintendent versity Medical School, St. Louis, Mo.
of the State Village for Epileptics, We have noticed in another part of
^Skillman, N. J., has deposited 537 pp. this issue a recent publication by him.
ption gathered by Mrs. Brown During* his recent attendance at the
Miss Lssjons. Eugenics Conference he announced his

'^^' > 1936 ^

iKi^/CAr iiB?-^^
 EUGENICAL NEWS 51

desire to obtain a field-worker For the same reason

in growing old.
eng-enics for $300 who would give part (in part) the death rate from arterio-
time in field work and have the re- sclerosis has more than doubled in 4
mainder for Medical years but this is certainly not due
work in the
School or the Colleg-e. to the stress of modern life, " the pace
that kills," in a country where the
largest city has only 65,000 popula-
NEW ZEALAND. tion and offices open at about 10 A. M.
The New Zealand Official Year Book and close at 4 P. M. In part the rise
for 1915 contains many data of eugen- is due to classification.
ical interest. In 1858 the European
population of New Zealand was only
MENTAL DIFFERENCES.
60.000; in 1911 it was slightly over
Gradually is the idea of individual
1,000,000. Immigration has never been
differences in educability becoming
high as compared with the United
accepted in public schools. Nowhere
States. Within recent years the ad-
more than in Detroit is this idea be-
dition to the population by migration
ing developed under the guidance of
has varied from 3,400 to 14,200, chiefly
S. A. Courtis who conducts the de-
from Australia. Despite the increas- partment of Educational Eesearch.
ing number of old persons, in a popu- He measured in children both the
lation originally composed
almost native efficiency and improvement
wholly of young immigrants, the under instruction in writing, spelling,
death rate has declined from 12.7 per composition, reading, grammar, arith-
1,000 living in 1871 to 9.3 in 1914. metic and algebra. The results of
This low death rate (implying in a this work are set forth in the " An-
stationary population an average age nual Report of the Detroit Board of
of 107 years at death!) is due to the Education" for 1915.
continued heavy immigration of young The Superintendent of the Detroit
men. schools in his report for 1915, tells of
The birth rate is falling much an investigation of 100 children over
faster than the death rate from 40 per ; 16 years of age who formally attended
1,000 living in 1871-'75 to 26 per 1,000 special Of the 100, 61 are
classes.
living in 1914 but this is partly owing
; boys and 39 are girls. Of the boys 39
to the increasing proportion of the had worked with an average wage of
old and the very young in the " 1,000 $7.00 per week and the 16 girls who
living." However, the percentage of worked gained an average wage of
married women in the female popula- $3.75. Few held a position long. Of
tion of 15 to 45 has fallen from 63.5 the 39 girls 14 had been arrested for
in 1878 to 49.6 in 1911 and the birth sexual immorality and of these 2 had
rate in 1,000 such women from 337 to had illegitimate children. Of the boy
209. The mean age of brides is slowly delinquents, 13 had been in trouble
increasing, which accounts for part of for petty larceny, malicious destruc-
the fall in the birth rate per 1,000 tion of property, disorderly conduct,
women between 15 and 45. &c. None of the children studied had
Deaths from cancer have risen from been out of school over 5 years ; the
2 per 10,000 population in 1875 to 8 per state is already supporting 3 of their
10,000,but this is largely due to the fact children. '!
f
that the population of New Zealand is Bulletin No. 6 of the Eugenics and
52 EUGENICAL NEWS

Social Welfare Series of the State with the Police Department of New
Board of Charities discusses the prog- York City to arrive at the constitu-
ress of the fifty-two border-line cases tional or hereditary factors in anti-
in the Kome State CustodialAsylum social behavior with the aid of care-
that Avere studied two years ago and compiled family histories.
fully
compares their present state with the According to the " New York Call "
former. A chart is given showing the President Louis T. Strong in his ad-
mental and physical advance made by dress before the forty-sixth annual
each case during each of the preced- convention of the Association of
ing three years. It would be verj^ in- County Su})erintendents of Poor and
teresting to secure the family history Poor Law Officers of New Y^ork State
of those children who improve and said that he favored the passage of
those who did not markedly improve. bills requiring all ai)plicants for mar-
riage licenses to pass both mental and
NEWS AND NOTES. physical examinations and also to re-
The League for Preventive Work of quire the sterilization of all feeble-
Boston (Mrs. Isabelle Kendig Gill, '12,
minded and epileptic children at the
age of twelve years as a means of
executive-secretary) has published a
stopping the increase of persons of
report "Feeble-Minded Adrift." It is
these classes.
a i^lea for an appropriation by the
legislature for a school for the feeble-
minded to be started in the western IN THE JOURNALS.
part of the state of Massachusetts. The "Journal of Heredity" this
Though the state now cares for nearly month is enriched by articles on
2.800 there are several thousand for " Musical Ability " by Mrs. Evelyn
whom custodial care is essential. Fletcher Copp " Let's Positivize our
;

has been announced in " Science "

It Negative Eugenics " by A. E. Hamil-
that " The Naples Table Association ton ;
" Extra Fingers and Toes ;"
for promoting Laboratory Research " Change of Sex in Hemp " by Fred-
by Women has held its annual meet- erick J. Pritchard " Concerning Pre-
;

ing at Bryn Mawr College. It was potency " by the editor and also by ;

voted to offer a prize of $1,000 for articles of primary interest to the

award in April, 1918, for the best plant breeder. All of the contribu-
thesis written by an American woman tions are well illustrated.
on a scientific subject embodying new Under the title " Ungraded " there
observations and new conclusions has appeared a new monthly maga-
based on independent laboratory re- zine " devoted to the educational and
search in biological (including psy- social problems in the scientific train-
chological), chemical or physical ing of the mentally retarded and to
science." the ultimate elimination of the feeble-
At the annual meeting of the Na- minded." In the March number is a
tional Committee on Prisons it was brief " Study of Deviate Children," by
announced that a fund of $20,000 a C. E. Jones, superintendent of schools,
year for five years has been guaran- Albany, N. Y. ;
"
The Story of Willie,"
teed to provide medical and scientific W. Barr; and "In re-
by Dr. ^Nfartin
treatment for the prisoners at Sing ply to Dr. J. E. W. Wallin's Article
Sing. The Committee on Eugenics 'Who is Feeble-Minded ? " by Samuel '

has begun operations in cooperation Kohs.

 EuGENiCAL News
VOL. I. AUGUST, 1916. NO. 8.

HEREDITY OF H. C. LODGE. owner in the China trade. Lodge is

Henry Cabot Lodge was born in Bos- descended on his mother's side from
ton, May 12, 1850, into a well-to-do " sailors and sea-captains " ; his
family ; was brought up in that mother's grandfather, George Cabot,
city
and at Nahant visited Europe,
;
'66-
having left college to go to sea and
'67 was graduated at Harvard College having eventually become a sea-cap-
;

in Arts '71, in Laws '74 and Ph.D., in tain. His mother's father " bought all
history, '76. He never practiced law. the new books on travel and explora-
He was assistant editor of the " Xorth tion." Lodge began early to devour
American Eeview," '73-76 instructor books novels, poetry, works of travel,
; :

in history at Harvard, '75-'79 and edi- ; and, books of history. As a

later,
tor of the " International Eeview," boy he browsed in the " fairly large "
'79-82. He was elected as state repre- library of his father and mother's
sentative in '79 and '80, then definitely father. His mother was a great reader
entered politics and has actively par- and her father was " seldom without
ticipated in Republican National Con- a book." Lodge has always been lit-
ventions since 1884, twice as chairman. erary, being author, editor, and com-
He was elected to Congress in '86 and piler his mother's father's sister
;

returned until '93 when he became wrote such excellent letters of travel
senator from Massachusetts, a position that some of them were published.
he still holds. Here he has stood for a Two sons are poets.
protective tariff, restricted immigra- Lodge is a natural leader of men
tion, upbuilding of the navy, and pre- and his adult performance closely re-
paredness. He has published " Life sembles that of his great-grandfather
and Letters of George Cabot," A " His- George Cabot who was in the Provin-
tory of the English Colonies in Amer- cial congress, in the State Constitu-
ica," " Lives of Washington, Hamilton tional Convention, in the State Con-
and Daniel Webster," " Story of the vention to ratify the Constitution
Eevolution," " Essays of Literature of the United States, was a U. S.
and Politics " and various other books. senator, was offered the secretaryship
Lodge has broad and keen interests of the navy, long led the Hamiltonian
especially in the field of visual and Federalists of Massachusetts, and was
auditory perception these are shown president of the Hartford Convention
;

in his love of sight seeing abroad. of 1814.

His mother's father was a " zealous One gathers that there is an ele-
theater goer " and his own father re- ment of sternness in the author of the
organized a Boston theater in accord- " force bill," an element that is marked
ance with his own ideas. There is a at least in his father's father, Giles
nomadic trait here, also, which has led Lodge, " whose word was law." On
him to " think imperially " in the Sen- the other hand we are struck in him
ate. Lodge says he is " never happy with the " grace and fascinating quali-
when long parted from the ocean and ties " which were attributed to his
the ships " and he still lives on the mother's mother.
place his father bought on an ocean
promontory. His father was a ship H. C. Lodge; Early Memories. Scrib-
ners, New York. 362 pp. $2.50.
54 EUGENICAL NEWS

MARRIAGE REGULATION IN of their teachers such children are

NORTH DAKOTA. fully as likely to be healthy as average
In a paper on " Insanity in North children their ability is far more of-
;

Dakota " Professor John Morris Gil- ten general than special, they are
lette publishes in the " Quarterlj- studious above the average, really
Journal of the University of North serious moral faults are not common
Dakota " a preliminary^ investigation among them, they are nearly always
that he has made into the workings of socially adaptable, are sought after as
the so-called eugenic laws of that playmates and companions, their play
State. He includes also the require- life is usually normal, they are leaders
ments of a physician's certificate for a far oftener than other children, and
marriage license which is used to ex- notwithstanding their many really su-
clude from marriage drunkards, ha- perior qualities they are seldom vain
bitual criminals, epileptics, feeble-
or spoiled."
" Are we not justified in concluding
minded, and those suffering
insane,
from venereal disease. The investiera- that it would be greatly to the advan-
tion indicates that the marriage law is tage of such children if their superior
being observed to some extent, though ability were more promptly and fully
it is frequently evaded b^' persons recognized and if (under proper med-
going out of the state and the exam- ical supervision, of course) they were
ination is sometimes too superficial. promoted as rapidly as their mental
The phj'sicians interviewed recommend development would warrant? Under
that the law should be amended to in- the present regime, when such chil-

clude the recording in some form of a dren attain their highest possibilities
it is more often in spite of the school
personal and family history chart.
Twenty physicians who replied to the than because of any special help or en-
inquiry whether an effective marriage couragement they receive from it.
law will result in illegitimate births Even genius finds it difficult to survive
thought the increase might be consid- when held over-long to tasks that
ered negligible in view of the advan- are too easy."
tages of the law, four are uncertain,
and two think it a real danger. It APARTMENTS FOR CHILDREN.
appears that up to the present time
The "Child Welfare Directory"
the sterilization law has been carried
calls attention to the interesting fact
out only in a few cases of recurrent
that both New York and Chicago now
insanity at the insane asylum.
have architects who are designing flat
buildings especially for the accommo-
PROBLEM OFTHE SUPERNORMAL. dation of families with children.
Lewis M. Terman contributes to the There is no doubt that one of the very
"Pedagogical Seminary," Vol. XXll, potent factors in the limitation or
pages 529-537, a paper on the " Mental elimination of families among the
H3'giene of Exceptional Children." It well-to-do of our larger cities is the
concludes " that there is little if any fact that it is often difficult to find de-
ground for the widespread belief that sirable apartments that are not re-
genius children are more likely than stricted to the use of childless fami-
ordinary children to be one-sided, un- lies. This, however, is not due as a
adaptable, morbid, queer or physically rule to any primal objection on the
delicate. According to the testiraony part of the landlord to children, but
 EUGENICAL NEWS 55

is the consequence of the irrepressible and be to a great extent

verity
"
expression of the child life that ren- founded on conjecture." The " Times
ders the presence of children objec- for July 20 contained an editorial
tionable to some tenants forced to criticising the Judge's opinion.
live in close association with them.
The plans of these architects must THE MUNICIPAL PSYCHOPATHIC
include provision not only for the out- CLINIC.
let of the child energies but such kind
Gradually the rules of heredity and
of outlet as will not intrude too forci-
the fact of individual differences are
bly upon their neighbors. It is pro-
being utilizea by the legal profession.
posed to provide "
play rooms, gymnas-
One of its most advanced representa-
tic apparatus, sun parlors, a baby
tives is Harry Olson, chief justice of
carriage garage, ample room in the
the Municipal Court of Chicago, whose
back yard to play, and a place for
address entitled " Disease and Crime
making mud pies." Doubtless such
An Analogy " before the State Con-
plans will make for a happier and
ference of Social Agencies at Los An-
healthier child life under city condi-
geles has just been distributed. There
tions and incidentally perhaps for a
is a psychopathic laboratory connected
more normal family life, but whether
with his court of which W. J. Hick-
they will contribute largely to the
son, M.D., is director. Justice Olson
conservation of the race may be con-
says " The slight advance made in
:

sidered problematical.
the battle for the suppression of crime
has been due to the fact that we have
THE BINET TEST IN COURT. relied upon legislation prescribing
According to the " New York Times " penalties instead of doing what we
of July 21 Supreme Court Justice Goff should long have attempted
ago
recently refused to accept the Binet study the individual himself who com-
test as sufficient ground for commit- mits crime. We have laid too great
ting a delinquent girl to an institu- importance on the environmental fac-
tion for feeble-minded. This girl, an tors and paid too little attention to
inmate of the Magdalen Home, was the problem of heredity. Where he-
21 years old and had attended school redity plays a part, as it does with
iTutil she was 16 at which time she
the feeble-minded, insane and psycho-
had attained a grade ordinarily pathic, the laws of eugenics must be
reached by a girl of 9. The authori-
invoked. Bad heredity creates a bad
ties of the home applied for her com-
environment immediately, but it takes
mitment to an institution for the
bad environment ages to create a bad
feeble-minded on the basis of the
heredity, if it does. at all. After a
show^ing of the Binet test. Justice
generation or two of combatting
Goff, after hearing the testimony and
crime, insanity, and feeble-mindedness
examining and questioning the young
woman, could not determine that she along these new" lines, we shall find
was so feeble-minded as to require that these defective stocks will grad-
commitment to a custodial institu- ually disappear." He further adds,
" every city of 100,000 population
tion. Concerning the Binet test he
said :
" Allcriteria of mental inca- should maintain a city psychopathic
pacity are artificial and the deduc- clinic " and, we may add, every county
tions therefrom must necessarily lack of that size.
56 EUGENICAL NEWS

EUGENICAL NEWS. intelligence of members of jiedigrees

Published monthly by that are being investigated. The
THE EUGENICS RECORD OFFICE. blank provides for recording all es-
41 North Queen St., Lancaster, Pa. sential data in the examination to-
and Cold Spring Harbor,
gether with the proper credits, folds
Long Island, N. Y
to a suitable size and is provided with
Subscription filty cents per jear, postage free in a margin for binding with the stand-
the United Statesand island possessions: also in
Canada, Mexico, Cuba, and Canal Zune. In all ard size notes. It is desired that
other countries add ten cent5 for postage.
EIntered as second-clas^ matter May 10. 1916, at
workers cooperating with the Kecord
the Post Office at Lancaster, Pa., under the Act of Office and wishing to use the Point
March 3, 1S79.
Scale shall use these blanks in report-
August. 1916. ing their examinations. The sched-
ules will be furnished free on request
CIRCULAR NUMBER 1. for this purpose.
The Eugenics Eecord OfiBce has just
issued a 20-page circular presenting
EUGENICS SUMMER COURSE.
the " Basis for the joint emplovment
of field workers bv the Eugenics Eec- The members of the Eugenics Class
ord OfBce and institutions for the for 1916 assembled on the grounds of
socially inadequate." The first pages the Eugenics Eecord Office at 8 :30 on
outline the plan of cooperation this ;
the morning of July 5 and were im-
is followed by a map showing the dis-
mediately organized for the summer's
tribution of institutions which have work. The lectures have been given
employed field workers under the each morning at 8 :30 by Dr. Daven-
joint plan and then come several
;
port and the remainder of the day has
pages 6f extracts from letters and been occupied with the class exercises
published reports concerning the value conducted by Mr. Laughlin. This reg-
of eugenical field work to these in- ular routine, however, has been fre-
stitutions as determined by their ac- quently interrupted for the purpose of
tual experience.The circular is com- making trips to various institutions
pleted by a keen and vigorous paper where the class is given the advantage
by Dr. Davenport on " Field work an of special clinics. On July 11 the
first trip was taken to Kings Park
indispensable aid to state care of the
socially inadequate."
Hospital for the Insane and on the
13th another trip was taken to Cen-
tral Islip. These are two of the three
RECORD BLANK FOR POINT largest insane hospitals in the world.
SCALE. On the 18th. Brunswick Home, a pri-
The Eugenics Eecord Office has pre- vate institution for feeble-minded at
pared a blank for recording the results Amityville, was visited. Monday,
of an examination of mental ability July 24, at noon an extended trip
according to the Yerkes-Bridges through Connecticut was begun. The
Point Scale. The blank is reproduced class went to New York and then by
from pp. 136-137 of " A Point Scale night boat up the Sound and the Con-
for Measuring Mental Ability " by necticut Eiver to Middletown where
Yerkes, Bridges, and Hardwick and is a visit was made to the State Hospi-
intended especially for the use of field tal for the Insane and to the Indus-
workers and others desiring to use trial School for Girls. The next morn-
the " Point Scale " in measuring the inof the class went by trolley to
 EUGENICAL NEWS 57

Cheshire and a visit was made to the Perry, Homer ; 414 Columbia Ave.,
lieforiu School for Boys.The return Lexington, Ky.
trip was then made by the way of Pickles, Elsie Embley ; 50 Dartmouth
Bridgeport and across the Sound to Ave., Providence, E. I.

Port Jefferson arriving back at. Cold Eeichert, Frederick L. ; 410 Manor St.,

Spring Harbor Wednesday evening. Lancaster, Pa.

Monday and Tuesday, July 31 and Scofield,Ethel Lord; Branford, Conn.
August 1, a trip was made through Smith, Helen E. Cleveland, Ohio.
;

New Jersey visiting the State Home Sweet, Marian 145 Congress Ave.,
;

for Boys at Jamesburg, the State Vil- Providence, E. I.

lage for Epileptics at Skillman, and

the Girls' School and the State Hos- ACCESSIONS TO THE ARCHIVES.
pital at Trenton. August 5 a visit Town Histories, 1.
was made to the United States Bureau Eecord of Family Traits, 30.
of Immigration at Ellis Island and to Field Eeports ;

Eandall's Island. The week of August Miss Armstrong desc. 27 pp. chts. ; ;

7 to 12 was wholly given to practical 3; indiv's 120.

field work in connection with the Nas- Miss Douglas desc. 44 pp. chts. 8 ; ;

sau County Survey that is being car- indiv's 181.

ried out under the direction of Dr.
Itosanoff. The summer course was PERSONALS.
completed August 16. Dr. Marion E. Horton, '11, is living
Those taking the course this sum- at Windsor, Vt.
mer are as follows Nina M. Gage, '12, is teaching. Her
Anderson, Virginia Lexington, Ky. ;
address is 141 Amygdaloid St., Lau-
Badger, Euby K. Erie, Pa.
;
rium, Mich.
Bordon, Elizabeth; 87 Portland St., EuthE. Hatch, '11, is a technician
Hartford, Conn. in a laboratory. Her address is 109
Barus, Deborah H. 30 Elmgrove Ave.,
;
Peterborough St., Boston, Mass.
Providence, E. I. Mabel H. Pratt, '11, is teaching.
Cook, Esther C. 28 Andrews St.,
;
Her address is 238 Marlborough St.,
Woonsocket, E. I. Boston, Mass.
Cruickshank, Lucille 456 Columbia ;
Myrtle F. Smart, '13, is field worker
Ave,, Lexington, Ky. for the New Jersey State Hospital,
Emmons, Marjorie North Eidgeville,
;
Morris Plains, N. J.
Ohio. Ida M. Mellen is an expert amanu-
Coyle, Sarah E. ; 2 Waynewood Park, ensis with address at 30 St. John's
Plainfield, N. J. Place, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Evans, Helen S. 6940 Torresdale Ave.,
;
Enid a social worker
C. Allen, '14, is

Tacony, Philadelphia, Pa. in a maternity at 2201 hospital

Gardner, Mrs. Marie; 123 East 60th Western Avenue, Minneapolis, Minn.
St., New York City. Sarah L. Funnell, '15, has been a
Kitchel, Mary E.Boonton, N. J.
;
student at the Scudder School, New
Kline, Jessie P. Anoka, Minn.
; York City, during the past year.
Kress, Eleanor H. Lock Haven, Pa.
; Elizabeth Greene, '13, of Phipps
Nelson, Louise A. 1709 E. Eepublican
; Psychiatric Clinic, Johns Hopkins Hos-
St., Seattle, Wash. pital, Baltimore, Md., is now taking
Osborn, Dorothy; 485 King Ave., Co- a course in the Columbia Univ. Sum-
lumbus, Ohio. mer School.
58 EUGENICAL NEWS
Dr. Elizabeth B. Miincey, '11, of the PRIZE OFFERINGS.
Eugenics Record Office, has obtained
The Volta Bureau, 1601 35th St.,
leave of absence and will sail Aiig-ust
Washington, D. C. announces the of-
23 for England to visit her daughter,
fering of a i)rize of $300 from the
who is living there. Alexander Graham Bell Grosvenor
Dr. Alice Lee, fellow of University
^[emorial Fund for the best essay on
College. London, has received the prize
the subject of Teaching and Training
fellowship offered b}' the English Fed-
Little Deaf Children in the Home.
eration of University Women. She The essay should consist of from
will make an investigation of the
20,000 to 21,000 words and should be
birth-rate as affected by present con-
submitted not later than noon of No-
ditions.
vember 1, 1916. Details of the condi-
Euby K. liadger, '16, of Erie, Pa., tions of the contest may be obtained
has been engaged as worker by by addressing the Bureau.
field
the Warren State Hospital, Warren,
The August number of " Physical
Pa., in place of Mrs. Anna W. Finlay-
Culture " contains an offer of $100 for
son, resigned. Miss Badger was sent
the best article on " What One has to
by the Hospital to take the summer Offer in Marriage."
The paper should
training course for field workers in
not exceed 3,000 words in length and
Eugenics at the Record Office this
must be a real study of an actual life
summer. giving an analysis of the causes which
have led up to the conditions as they
NASSAU COUNTY SURVEY. exist in the man or woman who is

The organization for the eugenic writing. The study is to be based on

survey- of Xassau County has been the gauges of physical and mental
completed and the work is now under characteristics as published and ex-
way. Dr. A. J. Rosanoff of Kings plained on page 14 of the July issue.
Park Hospital is director of the sur- Consult the cited issues for full par-
ticulars of the contest. Papers must
vey and Dr. Harry W. Crane, '15, is
in charge of field workers. Dr. John
l>e submitted before September 30,
1916.
R. Wiseman and Dr. Inez A. Bentley
are physicians for the survey and the
following have been appointed as reg- EUGENICS AT WAVERLEY.
ular field workers Marjorie Fulstow,
:
!N[iss Ethel Macomber, '11, has called
'14 Virginia R. Brown, '12 Edith G. our attention to the 68th Annual Re-
; ;

Donnelly, '12; Adele McKinney, '11; port of the Massachusetts School for
and Anna E. Steffan, '12. The eugenics the Feeble-minded at Waltham just
class for 1916 is also assigned to limi- issued as evidence of the progress of
ted areas. It is planned to examine eugenical Ijdeals in this institution.
selected persons in all parts of the In the report for 1911 all reference to
county and all persons in certain se- eugenical problems occupied less than
lected parts. The purpose of the sur- three lines in fact consisted of only ;

vey is first amount of men- part of a single sentence. In the pres-

to find the
tal defect in the community and sec- ent report two-thirds of the " Trus-
\

ond to get a picture of the eugenic tees' Report " is devoted to the im-
constitution of the community, show- portance of providing means for the
ing the economic productivity, health, investigation of these problems and
and fertility of various sections. the diffusion of the knowledge ob-
 EUGENICAL NEWS 59

tained. With enlarged vision it de- plumage. Professor T. H. Morgan has

clares : We" touching the
are just removed the testes from a hen-feath-
fringes of a work that can be ex- ered cock of the Seabright race of
tended and broadened until it becomes fowls and the operated bird has then
not State-wide, but nation-wide, nay, assumed the ordinary male plumage.
even world-wide in its influence and It seems probable that the testis in
effect, and the benefit to mankind will this race produces some substance that
be beyond our present comprehension." inhibits the development of the com-
Dr. Fernald, the superintendent, in plete male plumage.
his report also points out the consid-
eration that these studies are receiv- MEASURING MENTALITY.
ing in the work of the institution. A Drs. Louise E. and George Ordahl
" Qual-
special study has been made of the have published a paper entitled
Mongolian type of idiocy, with special itative Differences Between Levels of
reference to heredity, and we are Intelligence in Feeble-Minded Chil-

informed the study is ready for pub- dren " in Monograph Supplement No.
lication. This will be awaited with 3 to " Journal of Psycho-asthenics."
much interest. We are also informed The "Practicability of the Binet
that an inquiry is now under way re- Scaleand the Question of the Border
garding the antecedents of patients Line Case " are discussed by Dr.
showing mental defect with spastic Samuel C. Kohs in Bulletin No. 3 of
paralysis. Another piece of work the Kesearch Department, Chicago
whose results will be awaited with House of Correction.
much interesta careful after-care
is Dr. E. A. Doll in the April " Training
study of all the patients who have School Bulletin " discusses the " Intel-
been discharged from the school in the ligence Quotient " obtained by dividing
past twenty-five years. The report as a the "mental age" by the "chrono-
whole shows the progressive charac- logical age " and concludes that it is
ter of the management of the insti- valueless when the mental age exceeds
tution at Waverley. 11 years orwhere the difference be-
tween mental and chronological age
DETERMINATION OF SEX. five years.
exceeds four or
Dr. D. D. Whitney, of Wesleyan Uni-
versity, has found experimentally that INHERITANCE OF BALDNESS.
in five different species of rotifers a Under the above title a study of
poor or scanty diet causes only female- this interesting subject by Miss Doro-
producing females to be produced but thy Osborn appears in the August
a plentiful diet of the right kind issue of the " Journal of Heredity."
causes nearly all male-producing fe- It well illustrated by charts and
is
males to be produced. It is, however, photographs. Miss Osborn finds that
a long way from sex control in roti- baldness is a sex-limited trait. It
fers to sex control in man. may be inherited as a dominant char-
The dependence of secondary sex acter from father to son and may be
characters on secretionsfrom the transmitted through the mother
germ glands is demonstrated by ex- though she is not bald, the trait ap-
periments of Dr. H. D. Goodale, who pearing in women only when the in-
finds that on removing- the ovary from heritance is duplex. This explains
a hen or a duck the females that have why men are much more frequently
been operated upon assume the male bald than are women.
60 EUGENICAL NEWS

PRESS PRODUCTS. been Prof. James A. Field, Prof. John

Publication Xo. 9 of the Ohio Board >[. Coulter, Prof. Frank E. Lillie, Prof.

of Administration entitled ** A Mental Frederick Starr. Dr. Albert J. Ochsner,

Survey of the Ohio State School for Alexander Johnson, and Prof. Judson
the Blind" is an extensive analysis Herrick.
of the mentality of blind children by A study of 2S7 boys in the Cook
Dr. Thomas H. Haines. County Jail made by Amelia Sears re-
" Select Discussions of Eace Prob- i
veals the extraordinarily small num-

lems." Atlanta University Publication ber of boys from Bohemian parents in

Xo. 20 is a collection of eight reprinted proportion to the population. Of the
papers by W. E. B. DuBois. Felix von nations constituting the more con-
Luschan, F. P. Mall, E. S. Woodworth, spicuous portions of the population
I

M. I. Thomas and A. F. Chamberlain. ! the follo"wing is the series in increas-

This can be obtained from the Atlanta ing percentage of boys in the jail
University Press at the price of 50 Bohemian, Hungarian, English, Swede,
cents and comprises 108 pages. Austrian, American. Xorwegian, Xegro,
The Juvenile Protective Association German, Italian, Polish, Irish.
of Cincinnati has issued a small pam-
phlet entitled " The Feeble-minded or AMONG THE JOURNALS.
the Hub to our wheel of Vice. Crime The July number of the " Journal

and Pauperism Cincinnati's Prob- of Xegro History " has an interesting
lem " which presents in the concrete article on The Fugitives of the
'*

form of case histories the problem of Pearl " which is in reality a sket<?h of
'

the feeble-minded as it the stirring adventures of the fugitive

exists in Cin- '

cinnati. The pamphlet is an admirable slave family. Edmondson and is ac- ;

brief presentation of the subject to companied by a brief genealogical

I

the intelligent citizen, not only mak- record of the family brought down to
ing the problem clear and impressive, date. ,

but pointing the way to its solution. Among the interesting articles in
It is well illustrated with charts. the August number of the " Journal
of Heredity " may be especially men-
tioned " Lonsanguineous Marriage"
:

NOTES AND NEWS. by the Editor " Inheritance of Bald- ;

A medical de])artment and psycho- ness " by Dorothy Osborn. noticed

logical laboratory have been estab- elsewhere in this issue " Evolution ;

lished in the Boston police court and and INfan " by Maynard M. ^[etcalf
Dr. Victor V. Anderson has been and " Sorrel Color in Horses " by L.
placed in charge. .
P. ^rcCann.
The Eugenics Education Society held The " American Naturalist " for
its annual meeting in London last July has the following articles of
month. Mr. Leonard Darrvin gave the special interest " Sex Control and :

presidential address on July 6. known Correlations in Pigeons " by

An hereditary, sex-linked, form of Dr. Oscar Eiddle " The Calculation of ;

diffuse sclerosis " aplasia axialis." is Linkage Intensities" by Prof. E. A.

described by F. E. Betten and D. Wil- Emerson " The ^fechanism of Cross-
:

kinson in " Brain " Vol. 36. ing-over" by Hermann J. Muller,

The Eugenics Education Society of which has been running since the
Chicago holds its meetings once a April number and " The Inheritance ;

month. Special speakers at these of Congenital Cataract" by Dr. C. H.

meetings during the current year have Danforth, '13.
 EuGENiCAL News
VOL. I. SEPTEMBER, 1916. NO. 9.

HEREDITY OF JOHN ERICSSON. tionized naA-al architecture. He even

John Ericsson was born in Verm- invented a semi-submarine sending
at 12 made tech-
projectilesunder water. He also in-
land, Sweden, 1803 ;

vented a sun motor. He died, child-

nical drawings for a canal company
less, in New York City in 1889.
at 14 years was head leveler on a canal
on which his father held a minor en- John Ericsson's interests and ca-
pacities were innate. At the age of
gineering position the son had 600
;

men laboring under his direction. 4 or 5 years he was the wonder of the
" He was ceaseless in
From the age of 9 years he made tech- neighborhood.
his industry busied from morning to
nical, mechanical drawings with great
;

night drawing, planning, construct-

skill at 17 he entered the army to
;

ing." At the age of 9 years he could

satisfy a strong desire to do so, be-
came known as an expert artillery make accurate drawings and was well
draftsman, and gained promotion at skilled in the use of drawing instru-
the hand of his King because of the ments which he made himself. He
beauty of a military map he had also made a miniature working saw-
drawn, and he was called to the royal mill and pumping engine. His father
palace for further map-drawing. All was superintendent of an iron mine
the time he was exceedingly active and the machinery there was a source
always inventing, designing, con- of wonder and delight. All day long
structing. Before he was 26 he had the child would study their principles
invented an instrument for deep sea and attempt to copy their forms. At
soundings, a hydrostatic weighing 6 he dug a miniature mine and made
machine, the method of forced draft for it a ladder and windlass. At 8
in tubular boilers and a self-acting years he sought and obtained per-
gun-lock by which naval cannon could mission to draw in the office of the
be automatically adjusted to a desired draftsman of the canal company.
height. At 26 years he competed with
These traits had an hereditary basis.
Stevenson for the English prize for
His father was a clever mathemati-
the best locomotive engine ; while
cian, possessed of excellent mechan-
Stevenson won on horsepower, Erics-
ical judgment and engaged always in
son won on speed, since his locomo-
mechanical pursuits. The father's
tive made 30 miles an hour as against
father was a mining proprietor.
Stevenson's 13 miles. About this time
John's brother, Mis, became a suc-
he came to America. Here he fur-
nished designs for the screw warship,
cessful engineer. And the mother's
family contained mining proprietors.
Princeton, the first vessel with her
propelling machinery below the water The great
energy and even violent
line and out of reach of hostile shot temper that John Ericsson showed
the parent of the steam marine. In was a maternal contribution.
His
his hot air engine, which is still in mother was very active and high spir-

use, he employed wholly novel prin- ited; and her people were of the
ciples. He designed (wholly with his hyperkinetic type.
own hands) the "Monitor" which William Conant Church. Life of John
Ericsson, pp. 357. Charles Scribner's
saved the federal navy and revolu- Sons, New York.
62 EUGENICAL NEWS

HEREDITY IN EPILEPSY.
the great bulk of its inmates from
and Social Welfare Bul- low-grade families, we are, therefore,
" Eug-enic's
letin No. VII." of the Bureau of Anal- dealing with a selected class. This
ysis and Investigation, State Board of fact foreordains that whatever be the
Charities, Albanj', X. Y., is composed trait under investigation we will find
of two " chapters." Chapter I. is a it in these cases largely associated in
general discussion of the subject of the familj'^ histories with morbid
epilepsy and is supplied with a bibli- heredity, nervous instability and anti-
ography of 61 Chapter II., how- social defects. It is highlj' important
titles.
ever, is the more important part of that such studies should be supple-
the Bulletin as presenting the results mented by similarly compiled family
of an original research in the form of histories of private cases.
a " Iveport on a group of nine cases of
epilepsy' from one rural community." PSYCHIATRY AT SING SING.
This is accompanied by excellent pedi- At Sing Sing State Prison there has
gree charts of the family histories of been established a psychiatric clinic
each case. The work was done by under the immediate direction of Dr.
Miss Florence Givens Smith, '12, one Bernard Glueck. In planning the
of the investigators of the Bureau in work of the clinic Dr. Glueck lays
connection with the Craig Colony for special emphasis on the fact that it
Epileptics located at Sonyea, Living- is to be an intensive study of the in-
ston Co., N. Y. Each of the nine cases dividual, involving the collection and
studied was found to represent a dis- careful analysis of all facts that may
tinct family group having no connec- have any bearing in bringing about
tion with the others and the family the end result in the person under in-
histories as presented are highly sug- vestigation. This will include not
gestive. As the author says :
" Most only an account of the circumstances
striking of all, perhaps, is the evidence that brought the man to Sing Sing
of nervous instability which runs but a thorough investigation of his
through the greater number of the personal and family history, his hered-
families and which manifests itself ity, the circumstances of his birth and
widely in different ways." She con- early development, the character of
cludes as the result of her studies his environment, social and otherwise,
that " The facts thus far obtained
: and a complete physical and mental
are entirely in agreement with the examination as well as continued ob-
theory that morbid heredity is the servations on his reactions within the
most common predisposing cause of institution. On the basis of this study
epilepsy and that the disease is not a a diagnosis of each case will be made
morbid entity existing hy itself but a in accordance with a system of classi-
manifestation of manifold derange- fication adapted to the nses of the in-
ments disturbing the nervous S3"stem." stitution and such plan of treatment
Miss Smith recognizes the limited will then be l4id out as seems to be
character of her study and states that especially fitted to the needs of each
it is "of value chiefly in furnishing individual.
suggestions for further study." We While the work as thus outlined is
will not, therefore, be considered as strikingly suggestive of the methods
reflecting on the importance of her employed in the investigation of pa-
work if we call attention to the fact tients in insane hospitals the inmates
that since a state institution draws at Sing Sing are not considered as
 EUGENICAL NEWS 63

they are by no means as-

" i)atients " ; familiarity with
the characteristic
sumed to be ijsychopathic. While the symptoms of the insane criminal
thoroughgoing methods may detect ought to enable him to discriminate
some psychopathic cases previously more clearly the normal reactions of
overlooked it is not expected there the sane criminal.
will be many. The first and prin-
cipal object of the work is to serve
the institution by providing the
HEREDITY OF CANCER.
authorities with a scientific basis for There has appeared under the aus-
working out an intelligent line of pices of the Prudential Insurance
treatment for each individual. The Company of America a book of 826
prisoner is to be regarded as probably pages by Dr. F. L. Hoffman on " The
normal but a social delinquent whose iSIortality from Cancer throughout the
readjustment to society within or World." The book is the best statis-
without the prison is to be wrought tical treatment of the subject extant
out with due regard to his own spe-
a vast repository of statistical data.
cific reactions. It is expected also to We refer to this work here because
provide for proper follow-up or after- of the surprising conclusion (p. 174)
care work with those who are dis- that " the available evidence statis-
charged from custody and to give them tical or otherwise, does not sustain
intelligent personal aid in attaining the conclusion that the factor of
to a normal social life. The present human heredity" is of much material
situation at the institution offers an importance " in that disease. This
unusual oj)portunity for scientific re- seems to us surprising in view of the
search in criminology and it is clear evidence that there are strains
planned to take as full advantage as of mice, inoculable and uninoculable
possible of this circumstance. respectively to cancer, as shown by
. The results of Dr. Glueck's work Tyzzer, Miss Slye, Leo Loeb and
will be awaited with deep interest. others. Consider also the human
If it indeed be shown that the crim- racial differences in reaction in this
inal is really in most instances only respect. Full-blooded Negroes, In-
a square peg in a round hole it will dians and other primitive races are
emphasize more strongly the impor- said to have a small incidence of can-
tance of establishing psychiatric clin- cer. Among the Japanese cancer of
ics in our colleges and universities as the female generative organs is about
well as in connection with our public as common as in Great Britain but
school systems that our youth may be cancer of the breast is only one tenth
more intelligently guided in making as common as in England and Wales.
their life adjustments before either On page 30 the author says " such
they or society have been irreparably variations in cancer frequency are evi-
injured by the maladjustments grow- dence of a greater or less susceptibil-
ing out of the present haphazard ity to various forms of malignant dis-
methods. Dr. Glueck's experience in ease." But what are racial variations
the Government Hospital for the in- in susceptibility but racial, i. e., hered-
sane at Washington, D. C., in which itary, differences? In view of the
he had charge of the Criminal De- probability that cancer has an hered-
partment, would seem to have espe- itary factor is it not desirable to make
cially qualified him for the work he family history studies which shall de-
is now to develop at Sing Sing. His termine the facts?
54 EUGENIC A L NEWS

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September, 1916. DELINQUENT BOYS.

Karl M- Cowdery. '15, eugenics field
FIELD WORKERS APPOINTED. worker at the Whittier State School,
The following' appointments have California, has published an ** Anal-
been made from the 1916 Field ysis of Field Data Concerning 100 De-
Workers' Training Class at Cold linquent Boys ^ in the Journal of *"

Spring- Harbor: Delinquency " for July, pp. 129-153.

Miss Sarah E. Coyle, of Plainfield, Among his more important conclu-
X. J., to the New Jersey State Village sions are the folowing **
:The boys
for Epileptics, Skillman, N. J., under come from homes of all grades from
the direction of Dr. David F. Weeks. lo^v to hign with a high frequency
Miss Marjorie Emmons, of Xorth at what might be called average
Ridgeville, Ohio, to the State Home homes. It cannot be said that de-
for Girls, Trenton, N. J., of which Mrs, linquent boys come mostly from bad
Elizabeth V. H. Mansell is superin- homes. The parental conditions ap-
tendent. pear as the most consistently weak
Miss Esther C. Cook, of Woonsocket. factor. Intelligence tests show 32 per
Xew York Magdalen Home,
E. L, to the cent, of these boys to be feeble-minded
Dyckman Street and Eiver Boad, Xew and 26 per cent, up to average normal
York City. in intelligence. The remainder are re-
Miss Ethel L. Scofield, of Bradford- tarded to varying degrees between
Conn., to the Middletown State Hos- definitely feeble-minded and average
pitaL Middletown, Conn., of which Dr. normaL"
Lloyd Hariland is superintendent-
Miss Dorothy Osbom, of Columbus, HEREDITY OF PELLAGRA.
Ohio, to the New Jersey Beformatory Dr. Elizabeth B. Muncey, '11, who is
for Women at Clinton Farms, Clinton, connected with the Eugenics Becord
X. J-, under the supervision of Miss OflSce. has published the results of her
May Caughey, superintendent. "Study of the Heredity of Pellagra
Miss Mary E. Kitchell, of Boonton, in Spartanbtirg County. South Caro-
X. J., to the University of Illinois, lina," The paper forms a pjart of the
under the direct supervision of Dr. Third Beport of the Bobert M. Thomp-
Chas. Zeleny, of the Department of son Pellagra Commission of the New
Biology. !Miss Kitchell's task will be York Post-Graduate Medical School
to study the descendants of the or- and HospitaL and was published in
phans who, a generation ago. were the July number of the " Archives of
rescued and established in society by Internal Medicine," pp. 32-75. As the
Bev. W. D. A. Mathews, of Onargo, 111. result of her studies Dr. Muncev con-
 EUGENICAL NEWS 65

eludes that the " data collected shows Brooklyn, N. Y., has resigned and re-
no evidence of direct heredity. There turned to her home. Mossing Ford,
may, however, be an hereditary pre- Charlotte Co., Va., where she expects
disposition to the disease in those to make eugenical studies.
families in which chronic gastro-in- Dr. Laura T. Myers, '13, is a medical
testinal symptoms have existed ior social worker at 33 Tappan Ave., Belle-
several generations. With this pre- ville, N. J.
disposition to the disease direct con- W. H. Howard, '12, is in the postal
tact or life in endemic sections might service at Mechanic, Randolph County,
be the exciting factor necessary for N. C.
its development." The paper is accom- Edith G. Donnelly, '12, is teaching
panied by 28 fully described pedigree mathematics in the High School at
charts. It will appear also, in connec- Dover, N. H., but during the present
tion with a paper by Dr. C. B. Daven- summer is a eugenical field worker on
port on the same subject, as Eugenics the Nassau County Survey.
Kecord Office Bulletin No. 16. Mary M. Bell, '12, is investigator for
the Westchester County Hospital,
ACCESSIONS TO ARCHIVES. Eastview, N. Y.
County Histobies, 1. Miss Florence H. Danielson, '10, was
Family Distribution of Personal married on August 31, at the home of
Traits, 1. her parents in Danielson, Conn., to
Eecord of Family Traits, 35. Mr. Joseph Stoncliffe Davis. During
Field Eeports :
the coming year Mr. and Mrs. Davis
Mr. Cowdery desc. 52 pp. ; ; chts. 7 will be at home at 48 Huron Ave.,
pp. ; indiv's 264. Cambridge, Mass.
Miss Douglas ; desc. 29 pp. ; chts. 12 On the evening of September 5,
pp. ; indiv's 166. Charlie Davenport, the little son of
Miss Thayer ; desc. 22 pp. ; chts. 9 Dr. and Mrs. Davenport, died of infan-
pp. ; indiv's 291. tile paralysis. The child had been
Contributions :
alarmingly ill only a few hours. The
Clara Pond of the Indiana State funeral was held the next day and in-
Hospital at Logansport has sent in 55 terment was in the family lot in
pages of data, including 7 family his- Brooklyn.
tories and 12 pages of charts.
The death by accident in London is
announced of M. Emile Waxweiler,
PERSONALS. who before the war was director of
Lydia H. Jewett, '13, is teaching the Solvay Institute of Sociology at
physiology, eugenics, and sex hygiene Brussels University.
in Eeading, Mass. Her address is 65
Prescott St. A MOTHERHOOD FOUNDATION.
Julia G. Pierce, '15, is a teacher of According to " School and Society "
biology in the High School at Pater- the establishment of a school for
son, N. J. Her address is 57 Clark teaching motherhood is provided for
St. in the will of Mrs. Lizzie Merrill
Mildred Slaughter, '14, is a field Palmer. The amount will probably
worker for the Essex County Hospital be upwards of $1,000,000. " I hold
at Cedar Grove, N. J. profoundly," says the will, " the con-
Elizabeth V. Gaines, '10, long a viction that the welfare of any com-
teacher of science in Adelphi College, munity is inseparably dependent upon
 66 EUGENICAL NEWS

the qualities of it motherhood and RACE MIXTURE IN THE ROMAN

the spirit and character of its homes.*' EMPIRE.
It is specified that the school be es- Studies in the decline of the great
tablished in or near Detroit. Michigran. Roman republic must be of perennial
interest to America. Tenney Frank
GENIUS AN^D INSANITY. in the " American Historical Review "

In the July number of the " Amer- !

for July has studied the extensive
ican Journal of Insanity '* Dr. A. J. work "Corpus of Latin Inscriptions,"
Rosanoff writes on *" Intellectual Effi- for evidence of change of names and
ciency in Relation to Insanitj," in stock. He finds statistical evidence
which he discusses at len^h the cases that and freedmen were
the slaves
of William Lo^vper, Julius Robert more reproductive than the ordinary
Mayer, and Gustave Flaubert. He con- citizens of Rome certainly in the ;

cludes that grave neuropathic con- country, probably in the city.

*' This
ditions, particularly manic-depressive slave stock was from the East from
psychoses and epilepsy, are not incom- S\Tia. Asia Minor. Egypt and Africa.
" By combining epigraphical and lit-
patible with the hig-hest degree of in-
tellectual efficiency." He repudiates, erary references a fairly full history
however, the conclusion " which some of the noble families can be procured
have drawn, that a deep and essential and this reveals a startling inability
relationship exists in general between of such families to perpetuate them-
genius and madness." He further con- selves.We know, for instance, in
siders as the proper concern of eugen- day of 45 patricians, only one
Caesar's

ics, " not insanity, not epilepsy, as of whom is represented by posterity

such, but mental disablement." when Hadrian came to power. Of the
families of nearly 400 senators of 65
ALCOHOL AND PROGENY. A. D. all trace of a half is lost a gen-
eration later." " The voluntary choice
Dr. Raymond Pearl has adminis-
of childlessness accounts largely
tered strong alcohol and ether to
for the unparalleled condition."
poultry of thoroughly known strains
" There is to-day," says the author. *' a
and studied their progeny to learn if
healthy activity in the study of the
the germ-plasm had been modified.
He finds no evidence that specific ger-

economic factors unscientific finance,
fiscal agriculture, inadequate support
minal changes have been induced by
the alcoholic treatment, nor any evi-
of industry and commerce, etc. that
contributed to Rome's decline. But
dence that the germ cells which pro-
what lay behind and constantly re-
duced zygotes had in any respect been
acted upon all such causes of Rome's
injured or deleteriously affected. That
disintegration was. after all. to a con-
the results differ from those of Stock-
siderable extent, the fact that the
ard, working with guinea pigs, prob-
people who birilt Rome had given way
ably is fundamentally due to a dif-
to a different race. The lack of en-
ference in degree of resistance of the
ergy and enterprise, the failure of
germ cells of the two species to alco- foresight and
common sense, the
hol. He suggests that alcohol acts as
weakening of moral and political
a selective agent upon the germ cells stamina, all were concomitant with
of alcoholized animals, eliminating the the gradual diminution of the stock
weak and permitting the survival of which, during the earlier days, had
the vigorous and highly resistant. displayed those qualities.'*
!
 EUGENICAL NEWS 67

RESEARCH IN INEBRIETY. NOTES ON GENETICS.

A
Eesearch Foundation has been Biologists have probably underesti-
organized at Hartford, Conn., under mated the frequency of mutations.
the Directorship of Dr. T. D. Crothers, The evidence of its commonness is
the object of which is to make a sci- increasing. C. C. Little in " American
entific study of alcoholism and in- Naturalist " for June, 1916, tells of
ebriety. The Foundation is to be en- three color mutations that have ap-
dowed and will become a permanent peared in his pedigreed strain of mice.
institution. Appeals are made to phy- The same mutation has occurred three
sicians all over the country to furnish times independently. The mutation
records and histories of cases in order is in the opposite direction from that
that they may be classified and studied which the selection is being made
in

for the purpose of determining the and Little thinks that it was a mere
laws that govern inebriety outside of coincidence and not due to selection
the direct effects of alcohol. The In- that Castle and Phillips should have
stitution will be open for persons de- got a dark mutant rat in the line in
siring examination, counsel and ad- which they were selecting for in-
vice. It will, therefore, serve a prac- creased darkness.
tical end in the aid it may give to That some human twins are remark-
these unfortunates as well as becom- ably similar has long been known
ing a center for research. such are called identical twins. New-
man and Patterson have discovered a
mammal that regularly produces iden-
MAGDALEN HOME AND BINET tical quadruplets, the armadillo of
TEST.
Texas. In the " Biological Bulletin "
The recent discussion in the press for Feb., 1916, Newman shows that
concerning Judge Goff's criticism of whenever the mother has an abnor-
the Binet test as a means of deter- mality in one of the scales of the
mining mental ability seems to de- shell some at least of her offspring
mand in the interest of justice that it have it also and the abnormality is
be pointed out that the ]Magdalen apt to appear in or near the corre-
Home did not depend in its diagnosis sponding scale in the offspring and
of the girl's mental condition solely mother, but sometimes the correspond-
on the result of the Binet test. She ing scales are on the symmetricallj^
had been under observation for seven opposite side of the body. If a given
months and in addition her family his- scale is abnormal the exactly homolo-
tory, her past institutional career, her gous scale is apt to be affected in
school and work records, were all others of the quadruplets.
thoroughly investigated and sufficient Selecting hydra strains for few vs.
data had been gathered to make the many tentacles for 19 generations led
diagnosis possible even without the to a negative result. At the end the
Binet test. It should be understood hj'^dras selected for low number aver-
that the Magdalen Home, and presum- aged more tentacles than those se-
ably any other institution, would not lected for high number. So finds K.
rely on any one test in taking such a S. Lashley, in the " Journal of Ex-
serious step as applying for the com- perimental Zoology " for January,
j

mitment of a girl to a state custodial Professor Hugo de Vries calls at-

:

asylum. I
tention in " Science " June 2d to the
68 EUGENICAL NEWS

evidence presented by J. C. Willis that

important also to supplement such a
the new species of plants peculiar torecord with a full family history.
Ceylon and which still have relatives " There is not the least doubt that
there are not superior, in the strug-gle
cancer in animals is hereditary," says
Dr. Leo Loeb in " The Scientific
for life, to their forerunners, for they
are relatively rare. " They g-ive the
Monthly " for September, and he adds :

impression that they may have been " There are indications which make
formed by what Standfuss has called it very probable that in man also
explosive methods, a number of new heredity is a definite factor. We know
species being produced at one time." that some races are almost immune to
The evidence indicates that evolution cancer, as, for instance, the American
of forms is on the whole undirected Indian, the Negro in Africa, and
some
and that most of the so-called adapta- aborigines of Australia and
the South
tions are of no special advantage to
Sea Islands." " Definite data for man
their possessors. The differences be-
which could answer this question are,
tween the new species and their pro-
however, lacking." This is precisely
genitors are often large and involve
the sort of thing iipon which family
several characters.
history studies would throw light.

NOTES AND NEWS.

Dr. E. F. Leonard, Schoolof Medi- AMONG THE JOURNALS.
cine, Univ. of Illinois, states in " The The " Journal of Heredity " for Sep-
Institution Quarterly " for June, p. tember leads off with a suggestive ar-
138, that epilepsy is sometimes asso- ticle on " Babies in the Curriculum "
ciated with goitre. by A. E. Hamilton followed by a study
A study of inheritableness of plural by "The Editor" on "The Long-lived
births in swine by E. N. Wentworth First-born." Other papers of interest
and C. E. Aubel (Jour. Agric. Ee- to the eugenicist are " A Change in
search, iMarch 20) does not show clear
Sex-ratio " by Henry Pittier " Hered- ;

evidence of segregation of " size of

Hair-form " and " Constitutional
ity of
litter " at least the variability in the
;
Vigor in the Ancestry of Thomas A.
F2 generation is not greater than in
Edison."
the Fi where the parents belonged to
The " Journal of Delinquency " for
litters that differed greatly in size.
the concluding installment of
Perhaps the degree of heterozygosis is July has
the article by Arthur S. Otis on
so great in the grandparents that no
" Heredity and Mental Defect " begun
increased variability in the Fj genera-
tion is possible. in the May number also a paper by
;

Karl I\r, Cowdery on an

" Analysis of
The need to the teachers of life-
histories of his pupils is voiced by Data Concerning One Hundred
Fiel<i

Supt. C. R. Maxwell, of the White- Delinquent Boys " which is reviewed

water State Normal School, in " School elsewhere in this issue.
and Society " for June 24. " If we The " Virginia Medical Semi-month-
could have a complete record of the ly " publishes a paper by Dr. William
mental and physical ability of each H. Deaderick on " Some Aspects of
student both in the elementary and in Disease in the Negro " in which are
high school, this record would hold briefly discussed racial susceptibilities
almost unlimited possibilities." How to certain diseases.
 EuGENiCAL News
VOL. I. OCTOBER, 1916. NO. 10.

HEREDITY OF CHAS. E. HUGHES. was guided by a sympathetic knowl-

Charles Evans Hughes was born edge of human affairs rather than by
April 11, 1862, at Glens Falls, N. Y.,
inflexible legal theories and prece-

where his father had a parish.

Hav- dents.

ing- learned to read at 3^ years he

Hughes's successful reactions follow
finished Shakespeare's plays before he naturally from his innate traits. His
was 10.Placed in school at 5 years extraordinary capacity for learning
he acquired so much more rapidly comes naturally to one born of such
than his class that he was permitted scholarly strains. His father was a

to study at home, where his mother

teacher of classics before he became
taught him modern languages and a minister and had firmly fixed ideas
mathematics and his father the clas- on training children. His mother,
after graduating from an academy,
sics. At 14 he entered Colgate Uni-
versity and after 2 years went to taught school and had, like her son,
Brown whence he was graduated, 1881, unusual aptitude in mathematics.
with many honors. After teaching for Thoroughness and conservativeness
a year he entered Columbia College were parental attributes on both sides.
Law School and won the highest avail- He had such an appreciation of fact
able honor on graduating, 1884. He as makes him a lover of scientific

practiced in New York, married, and

writings and of invention and the
organized the Young Men's Bible Class same trait made his mother's father
at the Fifth Ave. Baptist Church. In a successful life-long carpenter and
1891 he was made a professor of law builder in Central New York, and his
at Cornell and proved to be an extra- mother's father's father a beloved
ordinary teacher. He resumed prac- frontier physician. Shrewd and com-
tice in New York City in '93. His rep- panionable he has easily become a
utation grew apace and the legislative social leader like his mother's brother
Gas Committee selected him as coun- who was repeatedly supervisor of his
sel; his demonstrations led to a re- township, two terms state senator,
duced gas rate. A life insurance in- and bank director. An ease of speak-
vestigating committee secured him as ing is found also in his father.
counsel and his revelations revolution- Like many another descendant of
ized insurance business in New York. pioneer stock Hughes is somewhat no-
Such success led to his election twice madic. He has traveled much. As a
as governor. As such he proved fear- student he was intellectually a rover,
less, independent and resourceful and and he is a natural reformer. As Gov-

effected many reforms better insur- ernor and in the Supreme Court he
ance laws, restriction of race track has always shown himself progressive,
gambling and the establishment of almost radical. His good judgment,
public service commissions. In 1910 industry and love of system showed
he was made associate justice of the themselves so early as to demonstrate
U. S. Supreme Court. Here he stood their constitutional basis.
for a liberal construction of the Con-
W. L. Ransom. Charles E. Hughes
stitution, realizing that it should aid the Statesman as Shown in the Opinions
of the Jurist. 353 pp. E. P. Dutton &
and not hinder social progress. He Co., New York. $1.50.
70 EUGENICAL NEWS

HEREDITY OF C. W. SALEEBY. In 1904 came the great event of his

A
good example of how hereditj- life. In that year a number of men
and environment can work hand in met and decided to found the Socio-
hand when given the opportunity is logical Society, and on May 16 Sir
shown in Dr. C. W. Saleeby. the well- Francis Galton spoke to the society
known English eugenist. Caleb Wil- on " Eugenics, Its Definition, Scope,
liams Saleebv was born at Worthing-, and Aims." Among those present was
on May 3, 1878. On his mother's side Dr. Saleeby and that, as he says,
he is of Quaker stock and is but two " settled it," for he gave up private

generations removed from Dr. Caleb medical practice for good and became
Williams, the Quaker doctor of York, instead a public practitioner, serving
who sixty years ago wrote an epoch- only truth and the public welfare. He
making book on " The Criminal Re- at once gave himself up to the eugenic
sponsibility of the Insane," now un- movement and in 1909 published his
fortunately out of print. His father " Parenthood and Race Culture," prob-

set up the first schools in Mount Leb- ably the first attempt to outline eu-
anon, and in name he is intimately genics along scientific lines. Dr. Sal-
connected with Palestine and the Cru- eeby has done more than anyone else
saders Salch, cross hey, for,
; in England to popularize eugenics.
W. Saleeby was educated by his
C. From his meeting with Galton he has
mother and later went to Edinburgh been hard at work, up and down the
to study medicine. Here he carried country, in and out of season, lectur-
ever^-thing beforehim, graduating ing and speaking to numerous gather-
M.B., C.B. in 1901, being the most ings. Though he is a valuable ex-
distinguished graduate of the j'ear ponent of temperance principles, and
and Ettles Scholar. He was also Scott a frequent speaker on total abstinence
Scholar in Obstetrics, and was Resi- and prohibition platforms, it is for
dent Physician at Royal Maternitj' and his advocacy of modern eugenics that
Simpson ^femorial Hospital, Edin- he \vill be remembered.
burgh. Later followed some general He a brilliant lecturer. His ap-
is
practice in a mining village, and then pearance on the platform is striking,
he went Resident Physician at York and his personality makes itself felt
Dispensary where, as he has expressed from the first words spoken. He has
it, he had a " hot season of infant lectured five times at that great home
mortality in the abominable slums of science, the Royal Institution of
called Hungate." Some obstetric work Great Britain, in 1907, 1908, and 1914.
followed and he was Resident Physi- And in 1915 he was selected to deliver
cian in the Royal Infirmary to G. A. the Chadwick lectures on race-hygiene.
Gibson the famous heart specialist. He is a prolific contributor to the
Autumn, 1902, found Saleeby in Lon- -^ess and his articles are eagerly read
don. Here at the Polyclinic he was and discussed. As a contributor to a
assistant for some while to the famous leading weekly review^ under a scien-
Jonathan Hutchinson, and now also tific nom-de-plume he has done valu-
he was reviewing French and U. S. able work for England and for sci-
A. monographs for the British ^fedi- ence. Dr. Saleeby has written a score
cal Journal. At twenty-six he was a of books, from "The Cycle of Life"
full}' qualified physician and at twenty- in 1904, " Evolution the Master Key,"
eight he had won the Fellowship of 1906, "Health, Strength and Happi-
the Royal Society of Edinburgh. ness" 1908, "Worry," 1909, "Parent-
 EUGENICAL NEWS 71

hood and Eace Culture," 1909, to the Graduates Magazine," September, 1916.
" Progress of Eugenics," 1914. He He finds that on the basis of Dr.
edited the " Xew Library of Medi- Davenport's figures 5618 graduates
cine," and contributed some valuable would have, if the current reproduc-
series of articles to the Harmsworth tion rate continues, 852 sons in place
Educational Publications. of 280 as calculated by Dr. Davenport.
Dr. Saleeby is essentially broad- The discrepancy is due to the fact
minded. The mere fact that a topic is that Dr. Davenport used statistics
unpopular means nothing to him if ; from the class of 1889 and following
it right and in the service of Life
is while Dr. Phillips used as a basis
that is all that matters. He is a vital- earlier and more fecund classes. As
ist to his finger-tips, the mechanistic Dr. Phillips sa^^s, " This survey gives
theory of life holding no attractions a gloomy picture." The results in the
for him. At this moment he is serv- case of Yale graduates are not ma-
ing England by innumerable lectures terially different. There is some evi-
to the soldiers on health, disease and dence that the decline of the birth
so forth. After the w^ar he returns rate is slacking up in the later classes.

to his first love the popularization of
eugenics and the education of the AN EVOLUTIONARY THEORY.
public. Norman K, Harrison. The " American Naturalist " for
August opens with a discussion by Dr.
FECUNDITY OF COLLEGIANS. Charles B. Davenport of "The Form
" College Women as Wives and of Evolutionary Theory that Modern
Mothers by Miss Laura E. Lockw^ood Genetical Eesearch Seems to Favor."
"
"
of Wellesley in " School and Society He undertakes to defend the thesis
March, 1916, is a reply to the article that " A theory of evolution that as-
by Prof. Eoswell Johnson and Miss sumes internal changes chiefly inde-
Stutzman in the " Journal of Hered- pendent of external conditions and
ity " based on the low marriage rate which proceeds chiefly by a splitting
and fecundity of graduates of women's up of and loss of genes from a prim-
colleges. Miss Lockwood adduces in- itively complex molecular condition of
teresting testimony of the strength of the germ plasm seems best to meet the
the maternal instinct in college stu- present state of our knowledge." To
dents. College life tends indeed to the support of this theory he brings
advance ideals of women's work in the evidence from ontogeny, paleontol-
world to a point where they conflict ogy, experimental breeding, and anal-
with subordination to humdrum fam- ogy with evolution in the inorganic
ily life and the prosaic physiological world. That the germ-plasm may be
processes of child-bearing and the modified by external agents is not
cares of child rearing. Still the wholly denied but the positive evidence
charge of inducing decreased fecun- is not considered conclusive and ex-
dity can not be laid solely to the perimental efforts in that direction
higher education of women. Collegi- should be continued. It is pointed out
ate education in either sex appears to that the theory renders less hopeful
be a deterrent from the family ideal. (but not hopeless) the prospect of
A study of the birth rate in Harvard being able to control completely by
and Yale graduates has been made experimental methods evolutionary
by John C. Phillips in the " Harvard change.
 EUGENICAL NEWS
EUGENICAL NEWS. Helen F. Veasey, '14, is teaching
Published monthly by Slojd in the public schools of Boston.
THE EUGENICS RECORD OFFICE, Her address is 28 Shafter St., Grove
41 North Queen St., Lancaster, Pa.
Hall, Boston, Mass.
and Cold Spring Harbor,
Long: Island, N. Y Dr. C. C. Little has been appointed
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ent of the Hudson River State Hos-
OCTOBEB, 1916, pital, was appointed. September 13,
president of the New York State Hos-
ACCESSIONS TO ARCHIVES. pital Commission.
Record of Family Traits, 41. Dr. R. W. Doyne died at Oxford,
Field Reports : England, August 30, 1916. He was a
Miss Armstrong desc. 20 pp. : ; chts. well-known ophthalmologist and has
2 pp. ; indiv's 86. published valuable studies on forms of
Mr. Cowdery : desc. 25 pp. ; chts. 4 hereditary cataract.
pp. ; indiv's 122. Mary M. Sturges, haT been
'10,
Dr. Crane : desc. 27 pp. ; chts. 3 pp. spending several weeks at the Eu-
indiv's 75. genics Record Office preparing for pub-
Miss Douglas : desc. 16 pp. ; chts. 6 lication the results of her studies of
pp. ; indiv's 110. closely inbred communities.
COXTRIBUTIO>"S : Dr. Alexander Johnson, secretary Ct
Clara Pond of the Indiana State the Xatlonal Conference of Charities
Hospital at Logansport has sent in 16 and Correction, has been selected as
pages of data and 3 pages of charts the expert for the Colorado State
including 85 individuals. This work Survey Commission which is engaged
was done in connection with the social in an investigation of the mental de-
survey of Putnam County, Indiana. fectives of the state.
Mrs. Hathaway, special worker Announcement has been made of the
along the line of eugenical genealogy, marriage of J. Theron Illick. '14, to
has deposited with the office 226 pages Miss Bernice Loie Rowland of Olean,
of data and 17 pages of charts includ- X. Y., on August 24, 1916. Mr. Illick
ing 320 individuals. and his bride sailed Sept. 7 from Van-
couver, B. C, for Xanchang, China,
PERSONALS. where he is to engage in missionary
June Adklnson, '12. is living at 71 work.
Fairview St.. Dorchester, Mass.
Gertrude E. Hodgman, '12, Is a nurse THE JUKES.
in the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Balti- ,^^n 1875 Richard L. Dugdale pub-
more, Md. lished his no^v classic work on the

Mabel A. Matthews. '15, is director Juke family. Probably' no investiga-

of special classes in Beverly, Mass. tion ever aroused more discussion as
Her address is 46 Abbott St. to the relation of heredity and en-
Israel Horwitz, is teaching in '14, vironment in problems and
social
one of the schools of Xew York City. Dugdale's methods have become the
His address is 650 East 170 St. model of many similar lines of re-
 EUGENICAL NEWS 73

search. After forty years it has be- afforded opportunity for a better anal-
come a matter of much interest to ysis of the family characteristics and
know what has been the later history the factors which determine their re-
of this social group and whether the actions. Dugdale made his study of
story of the earlier generations is be- the family primarily as a social prob-
ing indefinitely repeated. The dis- lem Estabrook has approached the
;

covery in 1911 of the original Juke subject from the standpoint of the bi-
manuscript furnished the key to a ologist and has, therefore, given much
continued study of the family history space to the study of consanguinity
and the work was undertaken by Dr. in marriage, cacogenic and eugenic
Arthur H. Estabrook, under the au- matings, presence and absence of spe-
spices of the Eugenics Eecord Office. cial traits, and the influence of
The results of this later study have changed environment.
just been published by the Carnegie
Institution of Washington and reveal PSYCHIATRIC SURVEYS.
the fact that a highly interesting situ- Dr. Herman M. Adler, assistant pro-
ation has developed in the last forty fessor of psychiatry. Harvard Univer-
years. At the time of Dugdale's in- sity, until recently chief of staff ox
vestigations the family for 100 years the Boston Psychopathic Hospital, has
had largely formed a closely inbred commenced a study of the facilities
community occupying a very restricted for dealing with mental diseases and
locality with a bad environment. Soon mental deficiency in Cook County,
after the publication of his work the Illinois. This survey, from w^hich
region underwent a marked change in most important results are expected,
industrial conditions resulting in a is made at the request of the Commit-
general exodus of the Jukes. " Now tee on Local and State Charities of
there is not a single Juke living in the Chicago City Club and of the Illi-
the ancestral area and only ruins of nois Society for Mental Hygiene. It
their abodes remain." The result of will be under the general direction of
this scattering has been to distribute the National Committee for Mental
the family from Connecticut to as far Hygiene and the expenses will be met
west as Minnesota and many of the by a special appropriation made by
later generations have been brought the Eockefeller Foundation.
up under Qonditions largely free from Perhaps nowhere in the United
the influences of the early environ- States has a more successful attempt
ment. Another effect has been in- been made to bring the resources of
creased out-marriage and the intro- the study of the mind to bear upon
duction of much new blood. These the solution of social problems than
facts give the work of Estabrook an in Boston. Here the Psychopathic
increased value for comparison with Hospital stands ready to serve the
the work of Dugdale. The changed community in whatever way it can.
conditions appear to have brought The parent with a queer child, the
about much improvement in some magistrate with a problem concerning
lines of the family stock and has delinquency, the teacher with a diffi-
doubtless been of benefit to the Juke cult pupil, all can bring their troubles
family. Nevertheless the hereditary to the Psychopathic Hospital and
persistence of many traits appears to there secure the best advice which
be emphasized by the investigation men trained in this work can give.
while the changing conditions have Dr. Adler has been chief of the staff
74 EUGENICAL NEWS

since the hospital opened its doors present perplexing difficulties in nearly
four years ago and he has seen it all remedial or correctional work
gradually widen its usefulness to the Mhich the city undertakes. The ^[ayor's
city. This experience, his training, committee has requested the National
and hisbroad outlook upon mental Committee for Mental Hygiene to
problems (especiall^^ the practical make for it just such a survey as the
questions of dealing with delinquency, study about to be commenced in Chi-
crime, and dependence) has particu- cago and the services of a psychi-
larly- fitted Dr. Adler for the study atrist of wide experience have been
proposed in Cook County. He will de- secured. Thus studies of the same sub-
vote his whole time for a period of at ject will be carried on simultaneously
least six months to this problem and, under the same general direction in
with the cooperation of public offi- the two largest cities of the country.
cials and private agencies and individ- The comparison of conditions and
uals interested, he should be able to remedies which will be possible will
give to Cook Countj' a report of great be added to the value and interest of
value in setting up constructive and the two reports.
scientific methods of attacking what Thomas W. Salmon.
is probably the country's greatest
problem. The need of an expert, im- HOW LIFE BEGINS.
partial study of the methods of deal- Under the auspices of the American
ing with mental diseases and mental Social Hygiene Association a private
deficiency has been recognized re- exhibition of a biological motion pic-
cently in a number of different places. ture film was given atthe Russell
At the request of governors of the Sage Foundation, New York, Septem-
states, state boards of control, state ber 27. The series presented phases
boards of charities and social or civic of animal and plant activity concerned
organizations, the National Committee with the processes of reproduction
for Mental Hygiene has conducted or and development. The films are the
is at present undertaking such studies product of Mr. Geo. E. Stone of Berke-
in Tennessee, Wisconsin, South Caro- ley, California, in collaboration with
lina, Louisiana, California, Connecti- Prof. J. A. Long of the University of
cut, Georgia, and Texas. California. The series as a whole was
The Mayor and the Board of Esti- well organized and the relationship of
mate of New York City have seen the successive processes was clearly
growing up in their community a num- shown from cell division in the proto-
ber of unorganized attempts to deal zoa through fertilization in the plant
with what are apparently different and animal to the development of the
phases of the same problem and within embrj^o and the care of the young in
a few weeks a special committee has the chick and mammal including man.
been appointed by the Mayor consist- The whole subject was presented with
ing of the Commissioner of Accounts, admirable delicacy and beauty. Many
the Commissioner of Public Charities, of the scenes are remarkable for the
the Commissioner of Corrections, the success achieved in securing moving
Chairman of the Parole Board, and the pictures of the actual process such as
Presiding.Tustice of the Children's Court a paramoecium undergoing cell divi-
to present a constructive plan for the sion, the chrysalis of the butterfly
examination, classification and proper shedding the last larval skin, and fer-
treatment of mental defectives who tilization of the egg of the rat. It is
 EUGENICAL NEWS 75

doubtful, however, if the moving pic- child, carried even to the management
ture is well adapted for the primary of the unsatisfactory home," at an age
presentation of a subject so complex sufficiently early to anticipate the
and involving" so much with which the development of character. The sub-
observer is unfamiliar. The succes- ject of heredity in these cases does
sion of events is necessarily too rapid not seem to have been given as careful
and the setting* of incidents too cir- consideration as it deserves. The fam-
cumscribed to be clearly comprehended ily history of the second pair of
by one unfamiliar with the subject.
brothers who show mental defects is
To one already familiar with the accompanied by
fairly complete and is
story and somewhat acquainted with
an excellent family chart. This re-
the forms, the reproduction of the ac-
veals much alcoholism on the paternal
tual details of the processes is so won-
side and considerable mental deficiency
derfully clear and vivid as to excite
maternal side. The family his-
the utmost enthusiasm. As a means on the
pair of brothers is
of summing" up the work of a course tory for the first
in the subject these films would be of unfortunately much less complete.

the g-reatest value. The observer Such as is given, while presenting no

whether child or adult needs some unquestioned evidence of mental defi-
preparation to fully appreciate them. ciency in the family does very dis-
tinctly suggest the presence of weak
A STUDY OF REPEATERS. inhibitions, highly in keeping with the
In the current issue of the " Jour- character of the boys who " are able
nal of Delinquency " Dr. Thomas H. to manage themselves within the
Haines presents a sug-gestive study of mores, ifthey wish to do so." Unless
" Two Pairs of Young Repeaters." sufficient consideration is given to the
These are two pairs of brothers about force of heredity as well as environ-
22 to 24 years of age who have been ment in our reform schemes in deal-
several times committed for offenses ing with the delinquent we will be
against society. Dr. Haines suggests doomed to much disappointment.
the possibility of finding something in
heredity or the social setting which INBRED RATS.
will explain the delinquencies. As to
In a study of the " Comparison of
the first pair of brothers he finds on
Behavior of Stock and Inbred Al-
examination that they are mentally the
efficient and " able to manage them-
bino Rats " published in the " Journal
selves within the mores, if they wish of Animal Behavior for
" July-August,
to do so." In the second pair one of Mrs. Ada W. Yerkes found that the in-
the brothers is mentally deficient bred rats displayed distinctly a greater
while the other is of average men- timidity and a greater susceptibility
tality but " may have an intermittent to environmental conditions. These
mental disorder." The home condi- traits appear to have been the chief
tions for both pairs of brothers are bad factors in modifying their behavior in
and in this " social setting "Dr. Haines the maze. It is interesting to compare
seems to find his chief explanation this result with the work of Dr. Helen
for the delinquencies, arid strongly Dean King of the Wistar Institute,
emphasizes the importance of society Philadelphia, who has inbred rats for
adopting a " program for the scien- 22 generations and concludes " The :

tific management of the individual results so far obtained with these rats
76 EUGENICAL NEWS

indicates that close inbreeding does AMONG THE JOURNALS.

not necessarily lead to a loss of size " Genetics " for July contains " In- :

or of constitutional vigor or of fer- heritance in crosses between Nicoti-

tility, the animals so mated come
if ana Langsdorfii and Nicotiana alata,"
from sound stock in the beginning and by Prof. E. M. East " Some correla- ;

sufficient care is taken to breed only tions in sugar beets," by F. S. Harris

from the best individuals." Is it not and J. C. Hogenson ;
" Nochmals iiber
possible that the rats of Mrs. Yerkes die ;Merogonie der Oenotherbastarde,"
disclosed a recessive trait by virtue by Richard Goldschmidt " Linkage in ;

of the inbreeding? Primula Sinensis," by Edgar Alten-

burg " Tricolor inheritance," by Her-
;

NOTES AND NEWS. man L. Ibsen and " On the effect of

;

selection in Paramecium," by James

It is reported from Berlin that the E. Ackert.
Ministers Education of all the
of
The " Journal of Delinquency" for Sep-
larger German states have been peti- tember has for special articles " Two
tioned to place officially on the pro- pairs of young repeaters," by Thomas
grams of all approaching teacher's H. Haines " A study of twenty-five
;

conferences the matter of the increase repeaters at the associated charities,

of population, M^ith a view to deter- Portland, Oregon," by Gretchen Brig-
mining whether some necessary cour- ger ;
" Bibliography of feebleminded-
ses cannot be added to the school cur- ness in relation to juvenile delin-
riculums. quency," by L. W. Crafts ;
" Hereditary
James E. Ackert in his studies on nomadism and delinquency," by J.
Paramecium in " Genetics " for July Harold Williams. This journal is of
finds that :
" Variation in size of
Para- value to eugenicists as its correspond-
mecia descended from a single animal ents appear disposed to give much
appears to be due to the environment weight to the facts of family history
and to growth. Selection within the in their studies.
progeny of a single Paramecium is The October number of " Good
without effect." Health " is distinguished by the in-
Family spastic paralysis with four auguration of a new department that
sibs affected is described by John H. is to be a permanent feature namely ;

W. Rheim in " Journal of Nervous and the Department of Eugenics in charge

Mental Disease," for August. It ap- of Dr. O. C. Glaser, professor of zo-
pears that this disease has been ob- ology at the University of Michigan.
served in three and four generations The purpose of the department is
by various authors. stated to be " To help people to think
In the last Prison Commissioner's along more intelligent lines," To dis- *'

Report of ISIassachusetts Dr. Edith R. cuss the subject in a popular and prac-
Spaulding urges that the women of tical way that it is hoped may help to
the Reformatory should be classified advance the cause of race better-
into four groups 1st, the mentally
: mentJ^ The present number contains
deficient but emotionally controlled Dr. Glaser's introductory article on
2d, the psychopathic, who should be " The art of eugenics," also a clever
in small cottages; 3d, the habitual of- and sensible discussion of the ques-
fenders who do not show mental or tion " What does it mean to be well
nervous defect 4th, the remainder, born ? ," by lone De Vany, and several
;

possibly reformable. short notes and reviews.

 EuGENiCAL News
VOL. I. NOVEMBER, 1916. NO. 11.

HEREDITY OF JOHN BURROUGHS. in a littlehouse in the wood. His

hut was doubtless the original Slab-
John Burroughs was born at Eox-
bury, Delaware Co., N. Y., April 3,
sides. The Celtic element, which I
mostly from her side, has no doubt
1837. Brought up as a farmer's boy- get
played an important part in my life.
he learned his letters at 5 or 6 years
in the district school and roamed the My idealism, my
romantic tendencies,
largely her gift." " There are
woods and read as time permitted. are
preachers and teachers and scholars
At 17 years he left the farm to teach
school and studied at Hedding Institute on Father's
side. Doubtless most . . .

and a summer later at Cooperstown of my own intellectual impetus comes

Seminary. He taught until 1863, the from this side of the family." Some
while writing for magazines, first on on this side became physicians and
philosophical subjects and finally on John once thought of studying medi-
" In size and physical makeup I
natural history. From 1863 to '73 he cine.
held clerical positions of great trust am much like my father. I have my
in Washington and for ten years fol- father's foot and I detect many of his
lowing was U. S. bank examiner. ways in my own. My loud and harm-
Since 1874 he has lived on his farm less barking when angered I get from
devoting himself to literature, except him. The Kellys are more apt to bite.
for a trip to Alaska with Harriman I see myself, too, in my brothers, in
and one to California with John Muir, their looks and especially in their
and even to the Hawaiian Islands. He weaknesses. Take from me my spe-
has led a life of extreme simplicity. cial intellectual equipment and I am
Burroughs's fame rests on his writ- in all else one of them."
ings, which put the reader into close Elements of John Burroughs's char-
and sympathetic communion with the acter are indeed shown in his brothers
open air world as no other writings
and sisters. They can not harbor re-
of a literary naturalist have done.
sentment. His brother Hiram was a
He is unobtrusive, poetical, humorous,
dreamer, handy at tools like his
and has a crisp way of saying things.
grandfather; Curtis "was apt at
Above all he seeks the truth and he Eden was cheery
witty remarks " ;

writes in simple language.

Abigail was appreciative of her
Burroughs comes of bucolic and
brother's writings and encouraged
pioneer stock that loves the wilder-
him but John alone had the internal
;

ness. His veracity is a marked pater-

This impulse re-
pressure to write.
nal trait ; so are his candor, direct-
appears, however, in his son Julian,
ness,and good humor. He says " I :

who, notwithstanding his education at

owe to my mother (Kelly) my temper-
Harvard, has returned to his rural
ament, my love of nature, introspec-
boyhood scenes, enjoys gardening and
tive habit of mind all those things
writes with much of his father's fa-
which in a literary man help to give
cility.
atmosphere to his work. In her line
were dreamers and fishermen and hun- Clara Burrus. Our Friend John
Houg-hton Mifflin
ters. One of her uncles lived alone Burroug-hs.
Co. $2.00.
287 pp.
78 EUGENICAL NEWS

BOYHOOD PROMISE OF JOHN fond of the country and seized every

MUIR. opportunity to push out into it. A
John Muir was b. Dunbar, Scotland, few notes on natural history in his
1S3S ; in 1849 migrated with his reading book excited him very much
father's family to Fox Kiver, Wise. and left a deep impression, especially a
helped on farm, read, studied fine description of the fish hawk and
the
mathematics, and invented mechan- the bald eagle by the Scotch ornitholo-
ical devices graduated from Univ. of gist, Wilson. " I read," he says, " his
;

Wisconsin at 26, and started on travels description over and over again, till
through the American wilderness, col- I got the vivid picture he drew by
lecting rare plants and studying geol- heart." He was 11 years old when he
ogy went to California 1868, ex- came to America. The " sudden splash
;

plored the Yosemite Valley and the into pure wilderness " made him ut-
glaciers of the High Sierra explored terly happy.
;

with the Geodetic Survey, 1876-'78

discovered the great Muir Glacier in TRAITS OF PRESIDENT WILSON.
Alaska, 1879. Until his death (Dec.
In the magazine section of the New
24, 1914) he was America's great for-
York Times for October 8, 1916, Pro-
est wanderer. To his activitj* is
fessor Stockton Axson, brother of the
chiefly due the establishment of the
firstwife of President Wilson, wrote
Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks
an intimate sketch of Mr. Wilson.
and the great Sierra Forest Eeser-
After describing the tastes and other
vation. His travels took him to
natural qualities of !Mr, and ^Mrs, Wil-
Russia, Siberia, Manchuria, India,
son he says, in referring to their
Australia, New Zealand, South Amer- " It interests me to ob-
daughters :

ica, and Africa. He wrote numerous

serve how three girls have shared
magazine articles on the natural his-
their parents' tastes and talents : Mar-
tory and physiography of our Pacific
garet has her father's passion for
coast and a few books. He owned and
music ;Eleanor, 'Sirs. McAdoo, her
managred a fine fruit ranch in Call-
mother's gift for painting; in young
fornia. He married but had no chil-
childhood, Jessie, !N[rs. Sayre, had
dren.
something of her father's taste for
His father was a grain merchant,
literary expression, and of her moth-
proud of his garden and his father's
;
er's taste for art but as she developed ;

sister was also a horticulturalist. His

these were overshadowed by that
father migrated in early middle life
which both her parents had in com-
to the wilds of Wisconsin, and was a
mon, a strong humanitarian instinct,
religious enthusiast especially fond of
which sought satisfaction in settle-
revivals. His mother was a descend-
ment work until she was married.'*
ant of the old Scotch family, Gilderoy.
Speaking of the President personally
Muir's interests showed themselves
he adds " His fund of anecdote, his
:

early. He recalled short walks with

gleeful delight in nonsense rhymes,
his mother's father, Gilrye, when not
his a^ocities in pun-making, an in-
over 3 years old, and the field mouse
heritance from his father, from whom
they found with her brood of naked
he has derived so many and more com-
young. He and his brothers were
mendable traits, all these things are
John Muir. The Boyhood of a pronounced in Woodrow Wilson, to-
Naturalist. 123 pp. Houg-hton Mif-
flin Company. Boston. gether with that finest of all humor,
 EUGENICAL NEWS 79

character humor, the knack of word tinal canals of the epileptic patients
portrayal of people in incongruous whom he has treated, the writer has
settings. These humorous character- found the spore-bearing Bacillus epi-
istics are still in President Wilson, lepticus, a bacillus which produces
but it is hardly strange if they are typical epileptic convulsions when in-
less habitually on the surface than oculated into rabbits. He has always
they used to be before the burdens of found some ptosis present and he em-
a whole world in turmoil were laid phasizes " the fundamental etiological
upon his shoulders. Even before the significance of mechanical stasis in
weight pressed upon him, his inherent epilepsy." The organism may be
Scotch sternness had begun to assert forced " from the alimentary canal
itself." into the circulation by the anatomical
disturbance of mechanical stasis,"
NEGRO EFFICIENCY. which the writer has shown to have
An extremely important paper has happened in 100 "per cent, of his cases.
been published by G. O. Ferguson, Jr., The later articles deal somewhat with
on " The Psychology of the Negro," this theory. The same journal also
in the Archives of Psychology for contains an editorial on " Epilepsy as
April, 1916. A series of standard men- a Bar to Marriage " in which the edi-
tal tests was applied to 486 white and tor suggests that legislation in regard
907 colored. It appears that the aver- to marriage of epileptics is premature
age performance of the colored popu- as the cause of epilepsy may prove not
lation (of school age) in such intel- to be heritable and he cites the above
lectual tests of high capacity is about mentioned articles.
three-fourths (or less) as efficient as Mabel L. Earle.
the performance of whites of the
same amount of training. Also that
RACE MORTALITY.
pure negroes, negroes three-fourths
pure, mulattoes and quadroons have Monograph No. 15 of the Depart-
ment of Health, New York City, is
about 60, 70, 80, and 90 per cent, re-
spectively of white intellectual effi-
an analysis of mortality returns for
ciency. In view of all the evidence it
each of 224 sanitary areas into which
the city has been divided. The
does not seem possible to raise the
scholastic attainments of the negro to
authors are Drs. W. H. Guilfoy and S.
an equality with those of the white. W. Wynne. This marks a great ad-
vance, since each area approaches a
It is probable that no expenditure of
time or of money would accomplish homogeneous population, and the dif-
ferences in mortality in the different
this end, since education cannot create
mental power, but can only develop populations can be determined. Thus
the negro infant death rate is in every
that which is innate.
higher than the white rate.
district
Throughout the Austro-Hungarian and
EPILEPSY. Russian districts, with very high den-
The "New York Medical Journal for sity of population and great poverty,
September 16, 1916, contains a series the infant mortality is exceptionally
of articles on the etiology, pathology, low. " There can be 'no question but
and treatment of epilepsy. The first that the low rate is due to the quali-
article is by Charles A. L. Eeed of ties inherent in the people
them-
Cincinnati. In the blood and intes- selves."
80 EUGENICAL NEWS

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HEREDITY OF PELLAGRA. Reports from Dr. Estabrook, Miss

Pond, and Miss Atwood, who have
Biilletiu No. 16 recently issued from
completed the survey of Huntington
the Eugenics liecord Office consists of
and Putnam counties, Ind., covering
two closely related papers originally about 400 pages, have been received.
published in the Arcltives of Internal
Miss Earle, library worker, has sent
Medicine and constituting a part of
in 286 pages of abstracts from med-
the third report of the Eobert M.
ical literature.
Thompson Pellagra Commission of Contributions :

the New York Post-Graduate Medical

Mrs. Anna Wendt Finlayson, for-
School and Hospital. The first of these
merly of the State Hospital for the
papers is by Dr. Charles B. Daven- Insane at Warren, Pa., has deposited
port on "The Hereditary Factor in
372 pages of description and 56 pages
Pellagra." As the result of his studies
of charts including 1706 individuals.
Dr. Davenport concludes that " pel-
Mrs. Winifred Hathaway has sent
lagra is not an inheritable disease in 478 pages of description and 30
as a distinct trait, but he does find pages of charts including 585 indi-
evidence that there is an inheritable viduals.
factor or factors determining the con- Miss Clara Pond of the State Hos-
stitutional reactions to the toxin of has sent in
pital at Logansport, Ind.,
the disease in different families, thus 29 pages of description and 2 pages
modifying and symp-
its progress of charts including 181 individuals.
toms. The second paper by Dr. Eliza-
beth B. Muncey on "A Study of the PERSONALS.
Heredity of Pellagra in Spartanburg Virginia Anderson, '16, is teaching
County, South Carolina" has already in the University of Kentucky.
been noticed in the Eugenical News Adele McKinney, '11, is studying at
for September, p. 64. The Bulletin Columbia University. Her address is
makes 75 pages and both papers are 511 West 130th street, New York City.
abundantly illustrated, the first with At the Lake Mohonk Conference on
38 and the second with 28 pedigree the Indians and other
Dependent
Dr. Charles B.
charts showing distribution of various Peoples, Oct. 19, 1916,
symptoms in the families. The price Davenport read a
paper on "Hered-
ity in Relation to Dependent Peoples."
is 15 cents.
 EUGENICAL NEWS 81

Dr. Harry W. Crane, '15, who has tions in educational and social service
been working with the Eugenics Kec- work, and has traveled extensively
ord Office under a leave of absence both in this country and abroad. Her
from Ohio State University during the most recent services have been given
past year, has returned to his work in Massachusetts and lately in con-
with the University at Cohimbus, Ohio. nection with the work of Dr. C. B.
Sybil Hyatt, '12, has published in Daveni)ort of the Eugenics Record
the Islorth Ccwolitia Booklet a genea- Office. Mrs.Hathaway will be in
logical paper on the " Lenoir County charge of the office of the Committee
Parkers." The material has been at its headquarters, 130 East 22d
gathered almost entirely from a dili- Street, New York, and will also be
gent search of State and County rec- available for some service in the field."
ords. We understand that her duties will be
Victor Delfino of Buenos Aires, Ar- to have general charge of the office;
gentina, has published a translation to arrange for the work of the Field
in Spanish of Saleeby's " Progress of Secretary throughout the United
Eugenics." The work has been given States ; to represent the Committee
an extensive review by Dr. M. F. Bou- at conferences ; to arrange for lec-
lenger in La Semana Medica for July ture courses, some of which will be
13, 1916. given by herself and to prepare ar-
;

Elizabeth Bordon, '16, has been ap- ticles for the press or for such pub-
pointed field worker for the Connec- lications as desire special phases of the
ticut Society for Social Hygiene, suc- work treated.
ceeding Edith M. Douglas, '15, who is
now working in the Social Service de- INDIANA WORK IN MENTAL
partment of the University of Penn- HYGIENE.
sylvania Hospital. Miss Douglas's
Some time ago, following a resolu-
new address is 1919 Arch St., Phila-
tion by the Indiana Board of State
delphia, Pa.
Charities, Governor Ralston of Indi-
Karl M. Cowdery, '15, who was last
ana appointed a committee to study
year engaged under joint arrangqf-
problem of the mental defective
ment between the Eugenics Eecord the
in the state. The committee is com-
Office and the Whittier State School
posed of Rev. F. H. Gavisk, Dr. George
at Whittier, California, has been
F. Edenharter, Dr. W. C. Van Nuys,
taken over entirely by the State School
Hon. D. Frank Culbertson, Dr. S. E.
and is employed as field worker in
Smith, Dr. George S. Bliss, Hon. C. A.
their Department of Eesearch under
McGonagle, and Dr. C. P. Emerson.
the directorship of Dr. J. Harold Wil-
It has held meetings both public and
liams.
private for the past year, and has con-
Mrs. Winifred Hathaway, '11, has
sulted with representatives of such
been appointed Executive Secretary
bodies as the United States Public
of the National Committee for the
Health Service, the National Commit-
Prevention of Blindness. The " News tee on Mental Hygiene, National Com-
Letter " for October, a periodical pub- mittee on Provision for the Feeble-
lished by the Committee, contained Minded, the Eugenics Record Office,
the following notice concerning her. and others, both local and national.
Mrs. Hathaway " is a graduate of Ead- Besides this, the committee by means
cliffe College, has held important posi- of three field workers from the Rec-
82 EUGENICAL NEWS

ord Miss Clara P. Pond (work-

Office, of 80. The purpose of the society is
ing- from the Northern Hos-
directly to work for the conservation of men-
pital for the Insane, Logansport, tal health ; for the prevention of men-
Iml.), ^liss Edith S. Atwood, and Dr. tal diseases and mental deficiency;
Arthur H. Estabrook, has made a field and for improvement in the care and
survey of two counties in the state, treatment of those suifering from
getting a list of the number of epi- nervous diesases or mental deficiency.
leptics, insane, and feeble-minded at The Eugenics Record Office through
large in the community. This study its field workers in Indiana has played

was made during the past summer by an important part in furnishing in-
means of visits to county and city offi-formation which has contributed in
cials, township trustees, school author-no small way to the development of
ities, physicians, and social agencies. the program for the proper recogni-

Visits were made in many homes tion' of the mental defective and his
where the mental defectives were relation to society.
found. Practically a house to house Arthub H. Estabrook.
canvass was made. The details of
this survey will be made public later THE ST. LOUIS EUGENICS EDU-
when the published report is given CATIONAL SOCIETY.
out. This society has been recently or-
On Oct, 16 the Committee on ganized by Mr. C. R. Paine, who has
and 17,
Mental Defectives called a conference kindly sent us details about it. It
at the Claypool Hotel in Indianapolis. has, as yet, fewer than forty mem-
The purpose was to present the prob- bers. The scope of its activities does

lem of the mental defective the in- not exactly coincide with that of
sane, the feeble-minded, and the epi- Eugenics as conceived by Galton. Its

leptic with relation to the home, the activities are planned to cover the
school, and the community, and from fields of sex hygiene, of child welfare,
the viewpoint of the medical pro- of domestic hygiene (including "do-
fession and legal profession. The at- mestic architecture and furniture"),
tendance was about 200 and included of household economy, and of " race
delegates from the State Medical As- culture and heredity." We are of
sociation, State Bar Association, State opinion that it is better to be less
Teachers' Association, State Federa- loose in the application of the term
tion of Women's Clubs, and many Eugenics, lest it lose its meaning al-
other social agencies. Many promi- together ; and that
properly ap- it is
nent citizens of Indiana were present. plied to the last, only, of the subjects
From outside the state the Committee listed above. We feel sure that the
on Provision for the Feeble-Minded, society, if restricted to race culture,
the National Committee on Mental would find in that subjest ample scope
Hygiene, and the Eugenics Kecord Of- for its activities,
fice were represented and addresses
were given by the delegates. The re- (^ JAPANESE TRAITS.
sult of the conference was the forma- Students of heredity and variation
tion of the Indiana Society for Mental have been so impressed with the great
Hygiene. Its president is Prof. E. H. amount of variability among plants
Lindley; secretary, Mr. F. D. Loomis, and animals of even the closest kin
It starts out with a paid membership that thoy often state that " there are
 EUGENICAL NEWS 83

as many species as there are individ- State Home for Feeble-Minded at

uals," yet compared with individuals Chippewa Falls.
more remotely related those of close In the 21st Annual Report of the
kin so nearly resemble each other that, Rome (N. Y.) State Custodial Asylum
forgetting- for the moment analysis Superintendent Charles Bernstein calls
into units, the same observer is led to attention to the failure of the sterili-
" marvel at the similarity of type." zation law in New York and thinks
The dual task of the field worker in little is to be gained and much lost by
eugenics is to describe, both analyti- the application of the measures pro-
cally and comparatively, human char- vided for in this law.
acteristics. In the Independent for The Report of the Committee on the
October 2, 1916, there appears the fol- Sterilization of Criminals of the In-
lowing review of a paper by Dr. Mo- stitute of Criminal Law and Crimi-
toda of Tokyo, describing the com- nology published in their Journal for
monest traits to be found among the September, gives the latest account of
Japanese people. " Among the good the operations of state laws. It ap-
traits of Japanese character Dr. Mo- pears that operations have been made
toda mentions patriotism, loyalty, af- in California on 634 insane and one
fection for family and relatives, love criminal since passage of the law in ;

of children, cleanliness, power of adap- Connecticut on 21 insane and in Wis-

;

tation, appreciation of beauty in na- consin on 21 feeble-minded.

ture, politeness, manual dexterity, and
a keen intuition of the spirit of things. NOTES AND NEWS.
He offsets these virtues with such de-
At a meeting of the Nassau County
fects as lack of public spirit, devotion
(N. Y.) Association held October 14
to red tapism, nervous self-conscious-
it was voted to raise $33,000 for char-
ness, careless respect for the truth,
itable and sociological work.
official contempt for the common
Funds have been subscribed by An-
people, fickleness, unpunctuality, in-
drew Carnegie, F. W. Vanderbilt,
dulgence in personal criticism, clan-
Daniel Guggenheim, Mortimer L.
nishness, poverty of facial expression,
Schiff, William Rockefeller, and Mrs.
and indulgence in physical appetites."
George B. Alexander for the support
of the psychopathic laboratory at the
LEGISLATIVE MEASURES. New York City police headquarters,
The Michigan State Medical Society thus making possible the continuance
has decided to recommend to the State of this important work.
Legislature the passage of a eugenics To heredity in diabetes mellitus 10
law regulating piarriage. pages of E. P. Joslin's book on " The
It is reported in the " Chicago Med- Treatment of Diabetes Mellitus " are
ical Recorder'' that State Senator devoted. He gets a " history of hered-
Glackin of Illinois is framing a bill ity " in 20 per cent, of his cases and
providing for physical and mental cites details of two notable family his-
tests of those who desire to marry. tories. Where a parent of a patient
The State Board of Control of Wis- was affected the disease runs a mild
consin, according to the Monthly Bul- course the worse strains are elim-
;

letin of the Indiana State Board of inated before parentage.

Health, has authorized the steriliza- At the Golden Jubilee of the Battle
tion of the women inmates of the Creek Sanitarium, Oct. 5, of which for
84 EUGENICAL NEWS

40 years Dr. John H. Kellogg has been AMONG THE JOURNALS.

the effective head, addresses were The Texas Medical Journal for Oc-
given by Professor Irving Fisher, one tober contains a short article on
of the Scientific Directors of the Eu- " Heredity and Environment " by Dr.
genics Record Office, by Professor G. Henri Bogart. He urges that " both
Otto Glaser of the Eugenics Registry, are equally potent."
and by Dr, Charles B. Davenport, the Genetics for September contains
title of the last being " Eugenics as the single extensive and highly im-
a Religion." portant study by Dr. H. S. Jennings
At the ^Nfay meeting of the Amer- on " Heredity, Variation and the Re-
ican Association for Cancer Research sults of Selection in the Uniparental
reports on the hereditary factors in Reproduction of Difflugia corona**
cancer in mice were given by Drs. The American Naturalist for Oc-
Moyer S. Fleisher, Leo Loeb, Maud tober contains a paper on " The In-
Slye, E. E. Tyzzer, C. C. Little, with heritance of Eye Pattern in Beans
discussions by Drs. Isaac Levin, and its relation to the Type of Vine "
James Ewing, H. G. Wells, H. R. Gay- by Dr. Frank ^L Surface, also fur-
lord, and R. Weil. At last the im- ther " Chromosome Studies on the Dip-
portance of the hereditary factors in tera " by Dr. Charles W. Metz.
cancer is being recognized. McCalVs Magazine begins with the
In an editorial of the t^ew York October number a new department in
Medical Journal for September, 1916, line with the modern trend under the
occurs the following notable passage title " The Baby Welfare Department
" As aptly said by Mr. Justice MuUan, in charge of Mary L. Read, Director
*
we have not yet come to that refine- of the School of Mothercraft. The
ment of civilization which will justify initial article " Choosing your Grand-
the annulment of marriage because children " gives evidence that the
of the risk of producing unfit prog- head of the new department proposes
eny,' yet the trend of legislation is to lay proper stress upon the
working
toward recognition of the welfare of of heredity in the baby's welfare.
the community as paramount to privi- The Journal of Heredity for Oc-
tober has for its frontispiece a por-
leges and even rights of the individ-
trait of Karl Pearson, the well known
ual."
leader of the biometricians. Other
The annual session of the Ohio State
matters of special interest are an ar-
Conference of Charities and Correc-
ticle by the Editor on "Heredity and
tion will be held at Youngstown, No-
the Mind," a review of "The Jukes
vember 14-17, 19 10, Rev. D. Frank Gar-
in 1915," and a further note on the
land, D.D., presiding. Evening ad- recently
remarkable quadruplets
dresses will be given by Dr. Thomas Keys
borne by Mrs. F. M. of Hollis,
P. Salmon, Medical Director for the O'kla. The November number of the
National Committee for Mental Hy- 5?ame journal contains " Hand and
giene Dr. Thomas F. Haines, Direc- Foot Prints" in man and monkeys,
;

tor Bureau of Juvenile Research "Mules that Breed" by Orren Lloyd-

Frederic W. Almj^ President National .Jones, and a review of George W.

Conference of Charities and Correc- Crile's book on "Man An Adaptive
tion ; and Dr. Kenosha Sessions, Su- Mechanism," besides other short ar-
perintendent Indiana School for Girls. ticles.
 EuGENiCAL News
VOL. I. DECEMBER, 1916. NO. 12.

HEREDITY OF CHARLES F. ADAMS. was an even more persistent writer.

Charles Francis Adams, 2d, b. Boston, Four generations kept voluminous di-
May 27, 1835, of the fourth generation
aries. While keen about public affairs,
this scion of a family of 2 Presidents
oi distinguished Adamses, a heritage,
says Lodge, " unequalled." At Har- and a preeminently skilful diplomat,
did not, like his brother, gain popu-
vard College his " aptitude " in writ-
larity, but like his father avoided po-
ing first manifested itself strongly
and while waiting for the clients in litical strife. He was essentially a
law that never came he wrote for the reformer, whether in his little town
newspapers and, finally, in " The At- or in national railway affairs. His

lantic," a famous article on " King

mother's sister's son, O. B. Frothing-
ham, founded an " Independent Lib-
Cotton." He campaigned for Lin-
eral " religious society, and Pres. John
coln's election, entered the war, Dec,
1861, as first lieutenant, and retired
Quincy Adams was supremely inde-
June, 1865, as brevet brigadier-general. pendent and opposed slavery as early
Marrying and regaining a war-shat- as 1830. The love of biography and
history is found in his father, and in
tered health in European travel (1865-
his brother, Henry, who wrote a 4-
'66) he returned to Boston and wrote
and worked so effectively for govern- volume history of the U. S. and " Doc-
mental control of railroads that he uments Eclating to New England
was placed on the newly formed Mas- Federalism." Good business ability
sachusetts commission, the germ out
came especially from his mother's
side, for her father accumulated a
of which grew the Interstate Com-
merce Commission, and later reorgan- large fortune in marine insurance and ;

C. F. A.'s brother's son is Treasurer of

ized the Union Pacific E. E. He, with
his brother, created a " model town " Harvard University. The fear of evil

out of Quincy, their home and later

;
consequences and a tendency to regrets
he are probably a maternal heritage
established Boston's system of
his mother " indulged in the luxury of
parkways and reservations, held many
positions of trust in that city's boards,
woe " his own biography is filled with
;

poignant regrets his brother John

and acted as overseer of Harvard Col- ;

lege for 24 years. Gradually his facil-

was The Adams's
easily discouraged.
drive, which he had in good quantity,
ity in writing was directed into bio-
is tempered at times with a Brooks
graphical and historical fields, he be-
came president of the Massachusetts caution. Over all broods the New Eng-
land inhibitions that led him to de-
Historical Society and was accumulat-
ing materials for an extensive life of cline preferments which seemed to
when he confiict with his ideas of duty, as
his father, died at Washing-
ton in his 80th year.
when he turned down General Hum-
phreys' offer to make him inspector
Mr. Adams's aptitude in writing was
general of Humphreys' command be-
found in his brothers also, Henry and
cause he felt he should remain with
Brooks, and in his father, who edited
his regiment of negroes.
the Boston "Whig" and edited his
Charles Francis Adams (1835-1915),
father's memoirs in 12 volumes. His an autobiography (with a memorial
father's father, John Quincy Adams, address by Henry Cabot Lodge). 224
pp. Houghton Mifflin Co. $3.00 net.
86 EUGENICAL NEWS

EUGENICAL NEWS. Fi-ederick L. Reichert, has taken

'16,
up the study of medicine at the Johns
Published monthly by
THE EUGENICS RECORD OFFICE, Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore,
41 North Queen St., Lancaster, Pa. Md.
and Cold Spring Harbor, Marian Sweet, '16, is junior techni-
Long Island, N. Y cian at Taunton State Hospital she ;

plans to do some family history work.

Subscription fifty cents per year, postage free in
the United States and island possessions; also in Marion Collins, '11, investigator of
Canada, Mexico, Cuba, and Canal Zone. In all
other countries add ten cents for postage.
the State Board of Charities, Albany,
Entered as second-class matter May 10, 19 6, at 1
N. Y., spent a little time recently at
the Post Office at Lancaster, Pa., under the Act of
March 3, 1879. the Eugenics Record Office examining
the records in pursuit of some of her
December, 1916 investigations.
J. C. Eldridge, one of the leaders of
If your subscription ends with this the Eugenics Education Society in
number we trust you will renew it New South Wales, Australia, has
promptly. joined the Australian Imperial Forces
for service in Europe and is now in a
ACCESSIONS TO ARCHIVES. military camp.
Vital Records, 4. Katherine Anthony, author of "Fem-
Record of Family Traits, 26. inism in Germany and Scandinavia,"
Field Reports :
gave an address on " The Child of the
Miss Armstrong- descriptions, ; 13
Unmarried Mother, and the Castberg
charts, 1 ; individuals, 48. Law " before the Eugenics Education
Miss Cook ; descriptions, 5 1 ; charts,
Society of Chicago, November 24.

8 ; individuals, 204. It is announced by " Science " that

Mr. Cowdery descriptions,
Dr. Walter S. Sutton, professor of sur-
; 27
charts, 4 ; individuals, 107. gery at the University of Kansas, died
Miss Osborn descriptions, 37 at his home in Kansas City, Kansas,
; ; charts,
11; individuals, 240. on November 10, He was known to
Miss Scofield descriptions, 36 charts. biologists for his service in pointing
; ;

3 ; individuals, 57. out the mechanism in the germ cells

Miss Thayer descriptions, 29 charts, for Mendelian inheritance.
; ;

7 ; individuals, 152. Isabelle Kendig Gill, '12, has re-

Contributions :
signed the secretaryship of the League
Miss Elizabeth Greene of Phipps Psy- oi Preventive Work, Boston, in order

chiatric Clinic, Johns Hopkins Hos- to study at the Cambridge Law School

pital, Baltimore, IMd., has s<^nt in 50

for Women.
pages of data.
THE MAXIM BROTHERS.
PERSONALS. Hiram Maxim died at London, Nov.
24, at the age of 76 years. He and
Elizabeth Greene, '13, who since 1913
his brother Hudson were born in
has been making field studies in eu-
>[aine of pioneer stock. Hiram was
genics for Dr. Adolf Meyer, psychi- ingenious from boyhood Hudson early
;

Johns Hopkins
atrist-in-chief for the made chemical experiments. Hiram
Hospital, Baltimore, Md., has regis- invented the automatic gun Hud.son ;

tered at Johns Hopkins Hospital for invented smokeless powder, maximite,

graduate work. and the noiseless guTi.
 EUGENICAL NEWS 87

HEREDITY OF RUTH LAW. of the proposition :

" The supreme ob-
ject of education should be to make
Euth Bancroft Law, born in Lynn,
Mass., 1887, has during- the past 4 years
the next generation better than living
made thousands of exhibition and pas- generations." Suggestions for elab-
senger carrying flights. This year she orate discussions under the
general
has broken the altitude record for theme are furnished and, where de-
sired, provision is made for the carry-
women, flying to 11,200 feet, the record
for passenger carrying by a woman, ing- out of a piece of original investi-
the non-stop world's record for wo- gation with the aid of an Advisory
men, and the American cross-country Committee of Experts. Members of
and non-stop record, November 19, this Advisory Committee are Dr.
Chicago to Hornell, N. Y. She is mu- Charles B. Davenport, Dr. H. H. God-
sical like her father, father's father
dard. Prof. C.-E. A. Winslow, and Dr.

and mother's father. Robert M. Yerkes.

Rodman Law, her brother, has flg-
ured in many daring aerial exploits.
CARE OF DEFECTIVES.
He has been called the human fly " be- A " New York Committee on Feeble-
Mindedness " has been organized with
cause he climbed up the front of some
high buildings by the use of his bare headquarters in the United Charities
hands blew up a balloon with dyna- Building, 105 East 22d St., New York
;

mite in mid-air and descended in a City. Mr. R. Bayard Cutting is chair-

parachute ; dropped 3,000 feet in a man and James P. Heaton, secretary.
parachute from an aeroplane and has The work is under the direction of an
;

jumped in a parachute from the Statue executive committee composed of Pro-

of Liberty, the East Eiver bridges and fessor Stephen P. Duggan, Maude E.
from skyscrapers of New York City. Miner, Eleanor H. Johnson, Dr. Thomas
Their father had hyperkinetic and W. Salmon, R. Bayard Cutting, Homer
nomadic tendencies went to sea as a Folks, and Franklin B. Kirkbride. It
;

youngster and, some years after mar- is announced that the goal of the com-
rying, left for parts unknown. The mittee is to strive to secure adequate
mother's father's father was a pro- care, supervision, and training of the
moter of his community the mother's feeble-minded and epileptics of the
;

mother was a Bancroft, related to the State. The Committee now consists of
historian. 150 citizens from all parts of the State
and is divided into 12 subcommittees.
A COMMITTEE FOR RACIAL There has been provided $45,000 for
WELL-BEING. expenses during a period of 3 years.
The National Council of Education A small pamphlet has been issued out-
of the National Education Association lining the plans for the work.
has created a committee of which Dr.
Helen C. Putnam is chairman for the NOMADISM.
purpose of studying methods of pro- Dr. Harold Williams in the " Jour-
J.
moting ideals of racial well-being. nal of Delinquency " for September
The committee has the use of $1,000 presents a paper on " Hereditary no-
annually for four years to promote madism and delinquency " in which he
its work. Prizes are to be offered to has made a study of the family his-
the class of 1917 who are preparing to tories of 48 delinquent boys admitted
become educators in our higher insti- to the Whittier State School, Cali-
tutions for the best cooperative studies fornia. These were taken indiscrimi-
88 EUGENICAL NEWS

nately except that 24 were distinctly been seeking special information con-
nomadic and the other 24 not nomadic cerning this work.
forming- two contrasted g-roups in this The Utah Commission for Investi-
respect. Dr. Williams linds that of gating Feeble-Mindedness, of which
312 persons included in the family his- Sadie R. Myers, '15, is field-secretary,
tories of the nomadic g-roiip 30 per in the course of its survey of the state
cent, were nomadic, while of 318 per has found a colony of cretins. Miss
sons in the non-nomadic group only 4, Jane Griffith from the National Com-
or 1.2 per cent,, were nomadic. The mittee for Provision for the Feeble-
paper is illustrated by 24 family charts Minded is assisting the Commission in
and manv case histories. its work.
Dr. George H. Kirby, clinical di-
NOTES AND NEWS. rector at the ^Manhattan State Hos-
An article on " Allotment of Repre- pital, who was assigned by the Na-
sentatives to a World Parliament," by tional Committee on Mental Hygiene
H. H. Laughlin, appeared in the " Sci- as expert to the New York City ;May-
entific Monthl}' " for December. Committee on Classification and
or's
" Studies in Forensic Psychiatry Treatment of Mental Defectives, has
b\^ Dr. Bernard Glueck published as made his preliminary report with rec-
" Criminal Science Monograph No. 2 " ommendations.

is probably the best American contri- The "Medical World" for October
bution to the subject. says " Like so many other brilliant
:

An extensive pedigree of a family Russians, the late savant, Elie ^Metch-

with choroideremia and 2 other vari- nikoff, was the child of an orthodox
eties of night blindness is given by H. aristocrat and an intellectual Jewess,"
E. Smith and C. H. Usher in the Royal and adds " The
peculiar people are
'
'

London Ophthalmic Hospital Report a valuable asset \vherever they are

for March. encouraged to settle and develop men-
Myotonia in a father and 4 out of 5 tally."
children and in 3 first cousins of the The war appears to have caused the
father is described very fully by Noxon suspension of " Eugenique " no copy of
Toomej', M.D., in the " American Jour- which has appeared since May, 1914.
nal of the !Mental Sciences " for No- However, the English publication,
vember. " The Eugenics Review," continues to
The Parents and Citizens Associa- be issued. When the war first started
tion of New South Whales under the the editors of this journal announced
presidency of Mr. J. C. Eldridge, an that every effort would be made to
enthusiastic eugenicist, has been a publish their magazine " as usual."
most active social force in that com- " Educational Measurements," by
monwealth and is making itself felt Daniel Starch, is an excellent compen-
among the influences for better legis- dium of quantitative tests of ability in
lation. reading, writing, spelling, grammar,
Arrangements have been made for a arithmetic, composition, drawing,
field worker to the psychiatric clinic Latin, German, French, and physics.
at Sing Sing prison under the direc- It shows how far we have progressed
tion of Dr. Barnard Glueck. The work in the measurement of individual dif-
at Sing Sing is creating much inter- ferences within the past few years.
est. The authorities of the New Jersey Published by Macmillan Co., New York.
State Prison at Trenton, N. J., have 202 pages.
 EUGENICAL NEWS 89

INDEX. Brigger, G., 76.

Brown, D. L., '11, 42.
Abbott, M. B., '14, 33.
Brown, H. A., 23.
Accessions to archives, 3, 9, 19, 25, 33, 41,
Brown, K. M., '12, 34.
50, 57, 65, 72, 80.
Brown, V. R., '12, 3, 58.
Ackert, J. E., 76.
Bryner, E. C, '12, 3.
Adams, C. F., 85.
Buckel foundation, 7.
Adams, J. Q., 85.
Bullard, W. N., 12.
Adkinson, J., '12, 72.
Bulletins of Eugenics Record Office, 4, 48,
Adler, H. M., 73.
80.
Alcoholism, 35, 66, 67.
Bureau of Juvenile Research, 18.
Alexander, G. B., 83.
Byers, J. P., 19, 43,
Allen, E. C, 57.
Almy, F. W., 84.
California, Eugenics in, 34, 38.
Altenburg, E., 76.
Campbell, M. O. D., '10, 2, 3.
American Genetic Association, 11.
Carnegie, A., 83.
Anderson, V. V., 60.
Carr, G. M., '13, 23.
Anderson, V., '16, 57, 80.
Castle, W. E., 35, 44.
Anderson, W. S., '11, 17.
Caullery, M., 33.
Appointments, New, 2.
Caum, E. L., '15, 41.
Armstrong, F., '15, 2, 3, 9, 20, 25, 33, 41, 42,
Chamberlain, A. F., 60.
50, 57, 72, 86.
Chicago house of correction, 4.
Arner, G. B. L., '10, 12, 26.
Children, Studies in, 52, 54.
Anthony, K., 86.
Civil service examinations, 4.
Association, Parents and Citizens, 88.
Chromosome studies, 84.
Atwood, E. S., '14, 2, 3, 9, 20, 25, 33, 40, 41,
Clarke, D. S., 20.
80.
Clasen, R. E., 35.
Aubel, C. E., 68.
Coit, S., 35.
Axson, S., 78.
Collins, M., '11, 3, 86.
College courses in eugenics, 26, 34.
Babies, 39. 68, 84.
Color mutations, 67.
Badger, R. K., '16, 57, 58.
Committee of eugenics, 19.
Banker, H. J., '14, 2.
for racial well-being, 87.
Barr, M. W., 52. on nomenclature, 1.
Barus, D. H., '16, 57. on feeble-mindedness, 87.
Battle Creek Sanitarium, 83. Conard, H. S., 4, 19.
Baughman, G., 28.
Conference of Charities and Correction, 18,
Being well born, 14.
42.
Bell, A. G., 28, 47. Cook, E. C, '16, 57, 64, 86.
Bell, M. M., '12, 23, 65. Cook, O. F., 44.
Benedict, F. G., 33. Copp, E. F., 52.
Bernstein, C, 28, 34, 83. Coulter, J. M., 46, 60.
Betten, F. E., 60. Correlations in sugar beets, 76.
Binet test, 4, 7, 55, 59, 67. County report, A notable, 23.
Biological Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor,
Court decision, 30, 46, 55.
18.
Courtis, S. A., 51.
Biological theory of nature, 44.
Cowdery, K. M., '15, 2, 9, 17, 20, 25, 33, 41,
Birth and death rates, 15, 20, 35, 44.
50, 64, 65, 68, 72, 80, 81, 86.
Bishop, M., '12, 33. Coyle, S. E., '16, 57, 64.
Blades, W. F., '11, 2, 11, 19, 33, 41, 80. Crafts, L. W., 76.
Blended inheritance, 12, 35. Crane, H. W., '15, 2, 3, 33, 40, 58, 72, 81.
Blind, Mental survey of, 60. Crile, G. W., 84.
Bliss, G. S., 81. Cretins, 88.
Boas, F., 5. Criminal offenders, Testing, 44.
Rogart, G. H., 84. Crothers, T. D., 67.
Borden, E., '16, 57, 81. Crossing-over, 60.
Border-line cases, 52, 59. Cruickshank, L., '16, 57.
Boveri, T., 3. Culbertson, D. F., 81.
Bowers, P. E., 22. Curial, M. T., '12, 9.
Bridges, C. B., 20. Gushing, H. W., '12, 20.
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Cutting, R. B., 87. Education Society, London, 60.
Education Society, St. Louis, 82.
Dack family, 48. in California, 34, 38.
Danforth, C. H., '13, 36, 46, 50. Law and, 36.
Danielson, P. H., '10, 12, 65. Record Office, 2, 10, 27.
Daniels, M., '10, 33. Research Association, 32, 40, 48.
Darblshire, A. D., 19. Review, 36, 44, 88.
Darwin, L., 60. summer course, 56.
Davenport, C. B., 4, 6, 11, 19, 28, 36, 48, Kugenique, 88.
65, 71, 80, 84. Evans, II. S., '16, 57.
Davis, F. R., '11, 12. Evjen, J. O., 31.
Davis, J. S., 12, 65. Evolution, 60, 68, 71.
DeadericlJ, W.
H., 68. Ewing, J., 84.
Death and birth rates, 35, 44.
Defects, Menace of inherited, 12. Family record book, 8,
Delfino, v., 81. Farnell, F. J., 36.
Delinquent, The juvenile, 30, 36, 42, 64, 68, Farrell, E., 24.
76. Faulkner, E., '13, 41.
De Vany, I., 76. Fecundity in collegians, 71.
Devitt, S. C, '10, 9. Feeble-minded, 18, 28, 39, 52, 60, 76.
De Vries, II., 67. Feebly inhibited, 4, 6, 23, 36.
Disease in the negro, 68. Ferguson, G. O., 79.
Diptera, Chromosome studies on, 84. Fernald, W. E., 19, 59.
Doll, E. A., 59. Field, J. A., 60.
Donnelly, E. G., '12, 58, 65. Field workers, 32, 56.
Douglass, E. M., '15, 2, 3, 9, 20, 25, 33, 41, Fingers and toes. Extra, 52.
50, 57, 65, 70, 72, 87. Fingers. (See Hand.)
Doyne, R. W., 72. Finlayson, A. W., '12, 3, 9, 17, 20, 48, 50, 80.
Dranga, M. O. (See Campbell.) First-born, Long-lived, 68.
Dublin, L. I., 44. Fisher, I., 4, 84.
Dubois, W. E. B., 60. Flsk, E. L., 4.
Dugdale, R. L., 72. Fleisher, M. S., 84.
Duggan, S. P., 24, 87. Folkmar, D., 5.
Duty to the state. The first, 40. Folks, H., 24, 87.
Foot prints, 84.
Ear lobes. Pitted. Foreword, 1.
Earle, M. L., 20, 50, 79, 80. Frank, T., 66.
East, E. M., 76. Frankel, E. K., 44.
Eaton, A. B., '10, 3. Frothingham, O. B., 85.
Edenharter, G. F., 81. Fulstow, M., '14, 9, 28, 58.
Ehinger, C. E., 19. Funnell, S. L., '15, 57.
Eldridge, J. C, 86, 88.
Eliot, C. W., 11. Gage, N. M., '12, 57.
Emerick, E. J., 18. Gaines, E. V., '10, 65.
Emerson, C. P., 81. Galilean, W. M.
Emerson, R. A., 60. Gardner, M., '16, 57.
Emmons, M.. '16, 57, 64. Garland, D. F., 84.
Environment, Heredity and, 46, 84. Garrett, I., ii., '11, 33.
"Variation and, 47. Gasparrini, A., 12.
Epilepsy, 15, 36, 62, 68, 79. Gavisk, F. H., 81.
Estabrook, A. H., '10, 2, 19, 40, 42, 73, 80, Gay, K., '13, 17.
82. Gaylord, H. R., 84.
Eugenic laws, 12. Genealogi'2al Federation, 7.
Eugenic novel, 38. Genealogical Record Office, 47.
Eugenics and agriculture, 44. Genetics, 20, 26, 44, 67, 76.
and social welfare bulletin, 4, 51, 62. Genius and Insanity, 66.
and the superman, 36. George, F., '13, 25.
at Waverly, Mass., 58. Gill, I. K., '12, 9, 16, 52, 86.
College courses in, 26, 34. Gillean, S. K., '11, 9.
conference, 24, 32, 40, 48. Gillette. J. M., 54.
Education Society, Chicago, 86. Glaser, O. C, 76, 84.
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Glueck, B., 62, 88. spastic paralysis, 76.

Goddard, H. H., 87. temper, 6.
Goldschinidt, R., 76. temperament, 6.
Goodale, H. D., 59. Heredity of
Good Health, 76. Abbott, Lyman, 21.
Goodspeed, F. H., 35. Adams, Charles F., 85.
Gould, J. F., '15, 2, 28, 42. Baird, Spencer F., 13.
Greenacre, P., '13, 50. Burroughs, John, 77.
Greene, E., '13, 3, 10, 17, 25, 41, 50, 57, 86. Edison, Thomas, 68.
Greeting, 1. Ericsson, John, 61.
Griffith, J., 88. Grant, General, 29.
Guggenheim, D., 83. Hughes, Charles E., 69.
Guilfoy, W. H., 79. Law, Ruth, 87.
Gulick, K., 25. Lodge, H. C, 53.
Guyer, M. F., 14. Maxim, Hiram and Hudson, 86.
Minot, Charles S., 22.
Haines, T. H., 18, 30, 60, 75, 76, 84, Muir, John, 78.
Hail, G. E., 8. 48. Putnam, G. H., 37.
Hamilton, A. E., 19, 20, 25, 28, 52. 68. Saleeby, C. W., 70.
Hand and foot prints, 84. Wilson, Woodrow, 45, 78.
Harriman, Mrs. E, H., 19. Herrick, J., 60.
Harris, F. S., 76. Hine, H. M., 19.
Harrison, N. K., 71. Hoch. A., 19, 24.
Harshberger, J. W., 19. Hodgman, G. E., '12, 72.
Hastings, M., 12. Hoffman, F. L., 63.
Hatch, R. E., '11, 57. Hogenson, J. C, 76.
Hathaway, W '11, 9, 33, 50, 72, 80, 81. Horton, M., '11, 57.
Heald, H., 7. Horwitz, I., '14, 72.
Healy, M. T., 28. Houdlette, N., '12, 26.
Healy, W., 28. Howard, W. H., '12, 65.
Heaton, J. P., 87. Huschka, M. C, '14, 9, 33, 50.
Hereditary : Hutchinson, W., 19.
absence of patellae, 35. Hyatt, S., '12, 9, 81.
absence of phalanges, 20. Hyde, R. R., 11.
baldness, 59. Hygiene, Educational, 4.
congenital cataract, 60. Hygienic legislation, 15.
constricted eyelids, 36.
diffuse sclerosis, 60. Ibsen, H. L., 76.
eye defects, 46. niick, J. T., '14, 50, 72.
fragility of bone, 4. Immigration, 14, 18, 31, 36, 44.
hair-form, 68. Inbred rats, 75.
idiosyncrasy, 12. Indiana Academy Science, 11.
nosebleed, 20. record of state wards, 16.
paranoia querulans, 35. survey, 19, 40.
psychoses, 20. work in mental hygiene, 82.
spinal ataxia, 36. Insanity and crime, 22.
stiff fingers, 3 2. and genius, 66.
symphalangism, 20. Intelligence quotient, 59.
Heredity, 44, 46, 47, 84. Ishmaelites, 2.
Heredity in :

beans, 84. Japanese traits, 82.

choroideremia, 88. Jennings, H. S., 20, 84.
color, 60, 76, 84. Jewett, L. H., '13, 65.
epilepsy, 36, 62. Jews, Distribution of, 18.
diabetes, 83. Johnson, A., 60.
cancer, 20, 63, 68, 84. Johnson, E. H., 87.
mentality, 68, 84. Johnson, R. H., 28.
myotonia, 88. Johnson, R. L., 25.
nicotiana, 76. Johnson, W. A., 28, 72.
night blindness, 88. Jolly, P. H., 20.
pellagra, 64, 80. Jones, C. E., 52.
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Jones, D. F., 22. Marriage, Consanguineous, 60.
Joslin, E. P., 83. Marshall, W., '12, 8.
Journal of Delinquency, 3G, G8, 7G, 87. Martin, C. F., 11.
Jukes, The, 2, 72, 84, Martin, II. E., '13, 3, 10, 17, 33.
Mason, S. L., 22.
Kellogg, J. II., 33, 84. Matthews, M. A., '15, 72.
Kendig, I. V. (See Gill.) Maxwell, C. R., 68.
Key, W., '12, 3. Mellen, I. M., '12, 57.
Keys, F. M., 84. Mentality, Studies in, 4, 6, 12, 30, 51, 59, 68,
Kilbourne farm, 42. 81, 84.
King, II. D., 75. Metcalf, M. M., 60.
Kirby, G. II., 88. Metchnikoff, E., 88.
Kirk, S. K., '14, 17, 25. Metz, C. W., 84.
Kirkbride, F. B., 87. Meyer, A., 47.
Kitchel, M. E., '16, 57, 64. Miller, E. C. L., 28.
Kite, E. S., 18. Miller, F. N., 19.
Kline, J. P., '16, 57. Miner, M. E., 87.
Kohs, S. C, 4, 52, 59. Minnesota state records, 24.
Kolbe, P. R., 28. Monson State Hospital, 36.
Kornhauser, S. I., 19. Mooney, B. S., 11.
Kostir, M. S., '13, 17, 38, 41. Mooney, J., 5, 18.
Kress, E. H., '16, 57. Moore, E. P., '10, 3, 4.
Morgan, T. H., 27.
Lacey, L. E., 47. Motherhood foundation, 65.
Lane, W. C, 20. Moxcey, R. S. (See Martin.)
La Rue, D. W., '13, 41. Mules that breed, 84.
Lashley, K. S., 67. Muller, H. J., 60.
Lattin, C. B., '14, 17. Muncey, E. B., '11, 9, 58, 64.
Lattin, J. B.*D., '14, 3, 17. Murray, F. O., '11, 25.
Laughlin, H. H., 2, 12, 19, 88. Afusical ability, 52.
Lawton, R., '11, 3. Mutations, Color, 67.
League for Preventive >York, 16, 52. Myer, A., 86.
Lee, A., 58. Myers, L. T., '13, 65.
Legislation, 15, 18, 52, 54, 83. Myers, S. R., '15, 50.
Leonard, E. F., 68.
Levin, I., 84. Nassau County Association, 24.
Lewis, F. T., 22. Nassau County Survey, 24, 40, 58.
Life histories, Need of, 68. National Committee for Mental Hygiene, 18.
I.ightfoot, Gerald, 33. on prisons, 11, 19, 52.
Lillie, F. R., 60. National Conference of Charities and Correc-
Lindley, E. H., 82. tions, 18, 42.
Lindsay, J. A., 36. National vitality, 44.
Little, C. C, 67, 72, 84. Negro, Study of, 18, 28, 68, 79.
Linkage, 60, 76. Nelson, L. A., '16, 57.
Lock, R. H., 12. Nevin, E. A., 40.
Lloyd-Jones, O., 84. New Jersey state records, 32.
Lockwood, L. E., 71. Newman, H. 11., 67.
Loeb, L., 68, 84. New Zealand, 51.
Long, J. A., 74.
Next generation. The, 23.
Loomis, F. D., 82.
Noguchi, H., 33.
Luschan, F. von, 60.
Nomadism, 6, 36, 76, 87.

McCann, L. P., 60.

Ochsncr, A. J., 60.
Macdonell, J., 36.
Olson, II., 55.
McGonagie, C. A., 81.
Ordahl, G., 36, 59.
McKinnie, A., '11, 17, 58, 80.
Macomber, E. C, '11, 9, 58. Ordahl, L. E., 59.
Macy, V. E., 23. Orphanage, The case of the, 30.

Magdalen home, 55, 67. Orr, F. (See Murray.)

Mall, F. P., 60. Osborn, D., '16, 57, 59, 60, 64, 86.

Man, a mechanism, 84. Otis, A. S., 68.

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Paine, C. R., 82. Schiff, M. L., 83.

Paterson, D. G., 39. Schneider, P., Jr., 35.
Payne, F., 11. Schneider, K. Von A., 35.
Pearl, R., 66. Scofield, E. L., '16, 57, 64, 86.
I'earson, K., 84. Schuck, v., 28.
I'erkins, I. C, '12, 42. Sears. A., 60.
I^rry, H., '16, 57. Selection, Studies in, 67, 76, 84.
Petersen, A. M., '14, 34, 42. Sergi, G., 20.
Phillips, J. C, 71. Sessions, K., 84.
Pickles, E. E., '16, 57. Sessions, M. A., '13, 25.
Pierce, J. G., '15, 65. Sex, Studies in, 36, 52, 59, 60, 68.
Pilgrim, C. W., 72. Shanahan, W. T., 32.
Pintner, R., 39. Shufeldt, R. W., 28.
Pittier, H., 68. Sing Sing investigations, 52, 62.
Plowman, A. B., 28. Slaughter, M., '14, 65.
Plural births, 67, 68. Slye, M., 84.
Point scale. Record blank for, 56. Smart, M. F., '13, 57.
Pond, C. P., '14, 3, 9, 25, 40, 41, 65, 72, 80. Smith, F. G., '12, 32, 34, 62.
Popenoe, P., 7, 19, 28. Smith, H. E., 88.
Population, Increase of, 76. Smith, H. G., 12.
Poulton, E. B., 43, 44. Smith, H. R., '16, 57.
I'ratt,H. S., 19. Smith, S. E., 81.
Pratt, M. H., '11, 57. Social work, Training schools in, 34.
Prepotency, 52. Southwest School of Hygiene, 11.
Price, O., 28. Spaulding, E. R., 76.
Prisons, 11, 19, 76. Starch, D., 88.
Pritchard, F. J., 52. Starr, F., 60.
Prizes, 24, 52, 58, 64. Stature, 18.
Psychiatry at Sing Sing, 62. Stearns, A. W., 18.
Psychopathic clinic, Municipal, 55, 60, 83. Steffan, A. E., 17, 58.
Putnam, H. C, 25, 87. Stiles, C. W., 19.
Stockard, C. R., Experiments of, 11.
Race problems, 5, 60, 66, 79. Stocking, R. J., '12, 34.
Racial well-being, Committee, 87. Stone, G. E., 74.
Read, M. L., 84. Storer, M. (See Kostir.)
Records, Distribution of, 10. Story of Willie, 52.
Records of state wards, 8, 16, 24, 32. Strenuous life, 17.
Reed, C. A. L., 79. Strong, L. T., 52.
Reeves, H. T., '10, 17. Stuckey, H. P., 35.
Reichert, F. L., '16, 57, 86. Sturges, M. M., '10, 9, 72.
Repeaters, Study of, 75, 76. Sumner, F. B., 47.
Rheim, J. H. W., 76. Super-normal child, 14, 54.
Rhodes, F. A., 23. Surface, F. M., 84.
Rich, L. C, '12, 34. Surveys, State, 40, 73.
Riddle, O., 60. Sutton, W. S., 86.
Rittenhouse, E. E., 44. Sweet, M., '16, 57, 86.
Robbins, E. F., '12, 26.
Robey, M. A., '13, 42. Taft, J., '12, 25, 50.
Robinson, V. P., '12, 25. Taylor, J. M., 8.
Rockefeller, W., 83. Taylor, R., '11, 23.
Rome State Custodial Asylum, 34. Terman, L. H., 7, 54.
Rosanofif, A. J., 11, 19, 24, 34, 40, 58, 66. Thayer, E., '13, 17, 25, 33, 41, 50, 65, 80, 86.
Ross, J. H., '11, 25. Thorn, D. A., 36.
Rubin, G., 35. Thomas, M. I., 60.
Rumsey, C. C, 24. Thompson, U., 44.
Thomson, J. A., 44.
St.Louis Eugenics Educational Society, 82. Thorndike, E. L., 23.
Salas-Edwards, R., 33. Toomey, N., 88.
Salmon, T. W., 19, 24, 74, 84, 87. Training schools, 34.
Sam Sixty, Family of, 38. Treadway, W. T., 35.
Sceleth, C. E., 4. Twins, 36, 67, 84.
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Tyzzer, E. E., 84. Well, R., 84.
Wells, H. G., 84.
Uchida, K., 33. Wendt, A. M. (See Finlayson.)
Underhill, R. M., 'IS, 9. Wentworth, E. N., 68.
Ungraded, 52. Whitman, J. L., 4.
Usher, C. II., S8. Whitney, D. D., 59.
Whitney, L. J., '15, 41.
Vanderbilt, F. W., 83. Whittier State School, 11, 34, 36, 87.
Van Nuys, W. C, 81. Williams, J. H., 7, 36, 76, 87.
Variation, 47, 76, 84. Wilkinson, D., 60.
Veasey, H. F., '14, 72. Winslow, C.-E. A., 87.
Vivian, R. H., 12, 25. Wisconsin State Board of Control, 10.
Woods, A., 19.
Wallin, J. E. W., 30, 52. Woods, E. W., '15, 4.
Walsworth, C. L., 18. Woodson, C. G., 18.
Walter, A. H., 19. Woodward, D. L. F. (See Brown.)
Walter, H. E., 19. Woodworth, R. S., 60.
Wanger, R., '12, 25. World parliament, 88.
Wants, 48. Wynne, S. W., 79.
War, Aftermath of, 15.
War, Dysgenic force of, 43. Yerkes, A. W., 75.
Ward, R. DeC, 36. Yerkes, R. M., 19, 33, 87.
Watson, F. D. (See Eaton.) York, H. H., 19.
Waverly School for Feeble-Minded, 58. Young, Brigham, 28.
Waxweiler, M. E., 65.
Weeks, D. F., 15, 50. Zuck, W. M., *12, 9.

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