VOL. VII.

NOVEMBER, 1922

INTERNATIONAL EUGENICS NUMBER

NO. 11

INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION OF Sunday, October 8th, in the morning a joint congress of the Ligue contre

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The International Commission of le Péril vénérien and Fédérations of Eugenics met at the rooms, Maison Anti-Alcoholic Societies of Belgium des Médecins, Bruxelles, of the Société was held in collaboration with the Belge d'Eugénique, on Saturday, Belgian Eugenics Society. In the October 7, and Monday, October 9. afternoon there was an excursion to There were present Major Leonard Waterloo and a reception by the comDarwin, Chairman; Dr. Albert Go- munal administration of Waterloo vaerts, Secretary; Dr. Van Herwerden where an address was given by M. of Utrecht, Holland; Dr. Wimmer, Pro- Gheude, député permanent, entitled, fessor of Psychiatry, Copenhagen; Dr." Les buts Eugéniques de la FermeJon Alfred Mjøen of the Winderen École." This was followed by visits to Laboratorium, near Christiania; M. the battle field and to the Ferme-école Lucien March of Statistique gén- Provinciale, the new home for the érale de la France," and Dr. Pinard, feeble-minded which it is hoped will President Soc. Française d'Eugénique, be ready for occupancy in the spring. Paris; and Dr. C. B. Davenport of On Monday, there was held the second Cold Spring Harbor. meeting of the Commission and, at 4 o'clock, a visit to the Solvay Institute of Sociology where Major Darwin gave an address entitled "L'Eugénique" and Professor Wimmer of Copenhagen one on “Mental Heredity." At 5 o'clock, the Prison de Forêst and its laboratory of anthropology were visited. On Tuesday, addresses were given by Dr. Daisy M. Robinson, by M. Lucien March of Paris, and Dr. Berthollet of Lausanne on matters partly of anti-venereal and partly of eugenical interest. half past two in the afternoon, a meeting was held in the large hall of the Solvay Institute of Sociology, at which was inaugurated the eugenics room of the Institute. Two

It was voted unanimously to invite German delegates to the Commission. It was decided provisionally to hold the next meeting of the Commission at Lund, Sweden, and the next meeting of the Eugenics Congress in 1924 at Prague. These decisions are contingent upon the possibility of making appropriate arrangements for the meetings.

The occasion of the meeting of the International Commission of Eugenics

at Bruxelles was taken advantage of for a meeting of the Ligue nationale Belge contre le Péril vénérien at the same place, and an extensive social program was arranged.

On October 7th, at 10:30, a lecture was given by Dr. Apert, physician of the hospitals of Paris, at the Palais des Académies, entitled, "L'Hérédité Morbide." At 5 o'clock was given a tea in honor of the Commission. On

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lectures were given on the practical organization of eugenics, "in the United States" by Dr. Davenport; "in Belgium" by Dr. Govaerts. On Wednesday a visit was made by the Congress to the City of Antwerp.

MOTHER TONGUE OF FOREIGN
WHITE STOCK IN NEW

YORK CITY.

movement of this center from east to west is due principally to the increase in foreign-born white populaBy "foreign white stock" is meant tion in the state of California. The the total foreign-born white popula- total increase in the foreign-born tion plus the native white population white population of the United States having one or both parents foreign was 367,209 and the increase in the born. The term "mother tongue' states of Texas, California, and refers to the language of customary Arizona was 316,222, or 86 per cent. speech in the homes of the immi- of the total increase. Twenty states grants before coming to this country. showed an increase in this element of The Bureau of the Census reports, their population from 1910 to 1920; in order of their numerical impor- ten of them were states east of the tance, that the leading mother tongues center and seven were states west of represented in the foreign white the center. The western states, howstock in New York City in 1920 were ever, had much greater increases in as follows: Yiddish and Hebrew, their foreign-born white population 946,139; English and Celtic, 897,452; than the states east; the largest inItalian, 803,048; German, 690,789; creases were in California, Michigan, Russian, 221,163; Polish, 161,310. and Texas. These six mother tongues represented 3,719,891, or 86.6 per cent. of the 4,294,629 persons constituting the foreign white stock of New York City as enumerated in 1920. During the decade 1910-1920, Yiddish and Hebrew declined from 22.9 per cent. to 22 per cent.; English and Celtic from 25.7 per cent. to 20.9 per cent.; German from 21.9 per cent. to 16.1 per cent. Nearly all other stocks showed great increases, such as the Italian from 14.6 per cent. to 18.7 per cent.; Slavic and Lettic from 5.6 per cent. to 11.3 per cent.

CENTER OF FOREIGN-BORN

WHITE POPULATION: 1920. The Bureau of the Census announces that, for the census of 1920, the center of foreign-born white population of the United States is in the eastern part of Allen County, Indiana, about 10 miles east of New Haven and 16 miles east of Fort Wayne. For the first time in three decades the center of foreign-born white population showed a western movement.

CENTER OF NEGRO POPULATION: 1920.

The center of negro population, according to the determination of the Bureau of the Census, is now about 1.75 miles north-northeast of Rising Fawn town, Dade Co., Georgia. During the last decade it has moved approximately 9.4 miles east and 19 4 miles north. This is the first time in history that this center has moved northeast. The total increase in negro population for the decade, 1910-1920, is 635,368, fifty-six per cent. of which was due to the increase of negroes in the Northern States. The Bureau of the Census accounts for this northward movement of negro population as being due to the cutting off of immigrant labor during the World War, and the con sequent demand for unskilled labor at high wages in the North. Since the war there has probably been a considerable return of the negro population to the South, due to the depression in certain industries in the North and the partial resumption

The change in direction of the of European immigration.

PERSONAL NOTES.

Dr. and Mrs. Halsey J. Bagg announce the birth of a daughter, Margaret Alice, on October 3, 1922, at Croton Lake, N. Y. Mrs. Bagg was formerly Dorothy Osborn, '16.

Dr. J. A. Detlefesen, on leave of absence from the University of Illinois, will, according to Science, spend the winter at the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, Philadelphia.

Mr. and Mrs. Scoville E. Hollister announce the birth of a daughter, Joanne Hollister, on September 8, 1922, at Los Angeles, California. Mrs. Hollister was formerly Mildred S. Covert, '17.

Institute in January.

Dr. Maximilian P. E. Groszmann, member of the Eugenics Research Association, died October 2d, aged 67. Dr. Groszmann was born in Brieg, Prussia, and came to this country in 1876. He was the founder of the National Society for the Study and Education of Exceptional Children, and in 1904 established the Groszmann Scho 1 in North Plainfield,

N. J.

Dr. Arthur H. Estabrook, '10, has completed his investigations of the Ishmael Tribe of Indiana, and has moved to Philadelphia, which will be his headquarters during his future eugenical study of special groups of the American population. His next investigation will consist in a study of the Mountain Whites of the South, principally in the States of Tennessee and North Carolina. Dr. Estabrook's

Dr, Henry H. Goddard has resigned his position as Director of the Bureau of Juvenile Research at Columbus, Ohio, and has accepted a position as Professor of Abnormal Psychology in Ohio State University. new address is 3615 Hamilton Street, Announcement has been made of Philadelphia, Pa. the marriage of Miss Elizabeth H. Perry, '16, to Mr. John Raymond Herman. Mrs. Herman is taking graduate work in genetics at the University of California. Mr. and Mrs. Herman's address is 2525 Regent Street, Berkeley, California.

STATUS OF IMMIGRATION. According to the bulletin issued by the Bureau of Immigration on September 30, 1922, during the three months which have lapsed since the beginning of the immigration year on July 1, there have been admitted a total of 105,080 immigrants from a total annual quota of 357,803thus leaving for the balance of the year 249,700 legally admissible immigrants. In one fourth of the year Czechoslovakia has consumed approximately one half her annual quota, Denmark a fifth, France one third, Germany an eighth, Greece one half, Hungary one half, Italy one half, Netherlands a fourth, Norway a sixth, Poland a third, Portugal three fifths, Roumania one half, Russia one fourth, Spain three fourths, Sweden a fifth, Switzerland one third, United Kingdom a fifth, Turkey one half.

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ACCESSIONS TO ARCHIVES OF THE
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OCTOBER, 1922.

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NATIONAL OFFICE OF EUGENICS
IN BELGIUM.

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On Tuesday, October 10, there was inaugurated at Bruxelles a Belgian National Office of Eugenics. This occupies one of the small rooms, or cellules, of the Solvay Institute of Sociology, situated in the charmParc Léopold of that city. The director of the new Eugenics Office is Dr. A. Govaerts, who is assisted by Mr. W. Schraenen, an anthropological assistant of Dr. L. Vervaeck, physician of the prison. It is understood that the Institute Solvay has made an appropriation of 10,000 fr. and that Mr. Armand Solvay will make a personal gift of 7,000 fr. Among those who have been instrumental in the establishment of the Office may be mentioned, first of all. Dr. M. F. Boulenger, director of the School of the Feeble-Minded at

A. H. Estabrook: Description, 540; Waterloo and president of the Société

charts, 3.

Belge d'Eugénique; M. Berryer, Mini

Whittier School: Description, 309; ster of the Interior and of Hygiene; charts, 20.

FOREIGN NOTES.

the Surgeon General of the Belgian Army, Willemaerts; Col. Noterman, During 1922-23 the Swedish Insti- head of the Army Institute of Phystute for Race-Biology is giving a ical Military Training; H. Velghe, series of lectures at the University. director general of hygiene in the These are awakening great interest. Department of the Interior; M. Dom, A Gesellschaft für Volksgesund-director general of justice; M. Vanheit of Helsingfors is undertaking to dervelde, Minister of State; M. Wittesecure funds for eugenics work in Finland. It is understood that Professor Harry Federley of that city will direct the eugenical work.

A bill providing for sterilization as a eugenical measure has been introduced into the Swedish Reichstag. A committee has been appointed to consider the matter.

Professor Rafaele Issel has, according to Science, been appointed director of the biological work of the Italian government on the Adriatic. This work will be concentrated at Rivigno.

mans, senator; M. Gheude, senator of the Province of Brabant; Dr. Bayet, member of the Royal Academy of Medicine; M. Brunet, president of the House of Representatives; Professor Demoor, delegate of the Academy of Medicine; M. Hostelet, director of the Solvay Institute of Sociology. Others who participated in social affairs connected with the Congress were Dr. and Mrs. LeclercDandoy, of the University; Professor Ley; Dr. Péchère, Dr. R. Sand and the Rev. Père Fallon. From the foregoing list it will be observed that

cists of other countries. All contributions are to be received before March 15, 1923, by "The Institute of Genetic Biology and Experimental Morphology," Charles University, Prague.

RACE-BIOLOGY IN SWEDEN.

The Swedish Parliament voted, May 13, 1921, to establish a Swedish Institute for Race-Biology with 82,500 crowns (Swedish) in addition to the salary of the director. Of this sum, 24,000 crowns are to be utilized for the first equipment of the Institute, 26,500 for working expenses, and the remainder for salaries for assistants during 1922. Work began January 1, 1922. The Institute has its own council, appointed by the King and standing directly under the Government. At present it is located at Upsala and the director is nominally on the University staff; but the Institute is a governmental rather than University department or agency.

the Belgian Society of Eugenics and the Belgian Office of Eugenics which has grown out of the Society have the highest social standing in Bruxelles. At the meeting of the International Commission in Antwerp the Mayor of the City announced that an appropriation had been made for a branch office of the National Office of Eugenics, to be located at Antwerp. EUGENICS IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA. The Czechoslovak Eugenic Society in Prague has been carrying out a series of meetings and lectures in honor of the one hundredth birthday of Gregor Mendel. On Thursday, October 19th, a general meeting was held, opened by Dr. L. Haškovec, professor in the University and president of the Czechoslovak Eugenic Society. A lecture on "Mendel's Work in Natural Science" was delivered by Dr. B. Němec, rector of the King Charles University, Prague. Dr. V. Rüzéčka, professor in the The first council comprises: H. University, lectured on "Mendelism Hammarskjöld, Lord Lieutenant of and Causal Research in Genetics." Upland; A. af Jocknick, Esq., Director During October and November lec- General in the Royal Committee for tures have been given as follows: Pensions, Stockholm; F. Lennmalm, "Mendelism in Theory and Practical M.D., Rector of the "Karolinska InLife" by Dr. Arthur Brožek; "The stutet," Stockholm; Mrs. Emilia Inheritance of Acquired Characters Broomé, Stockholm; J. V. Hultkrantz, and the Importance of Mendelism M.D., Professor of Anatomy, Upsala for Evolution by Dr. Jaroslav University; H. Nilsson-Ehle, M.D. and Křiženecký; "The Methods of Mendel- Ph.D., Professor of Heredity in Lund ism" by Dr. Erwin Baur; Mendelism and the Inheritance of Mental Qualities" by Dr. Charles Herfort; The Importance of Mendelism in Medicine and Eugenics" by Dr. L. Haškovec; "Eugenics and its Relation to Social and Ethical Problems by Dr. Břetislar Foustka, professor at the University, Prague.

University (at Åkarp); H. Lundborg, M.D., Director of the Institute. The present staff includes: Dr. F. J. Linders, statistician, archivist and vice director; G. Dahlberg, M.D., medical assistant, at present doing anthropometric work; Dr. W. W. Krauss (formerly of Vienna), assistant anthropologist; E. Heckscher, genealogist; Mrs. G. Dahlberg, who helps her husband in anthropometric work, recorded as social worker; and

The Society proposes to print the lectures in the form of a memorial volume to Mendel. It invites contributions to this volume by geneti- Mr. E. A. Ohlsén, photographer.