Heredity in relation to eugenics

Abstract

work of the American Breeders' Association) is dedicated.The Eugenics Record Office wishes to get in touch with all persons interested in the eugenics movement.It invites every person who is willing to do so to record his heritage and place the record on file at the Record Office."Drop a postal card" at once to the Eugenics Record Office, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, and ask for the blank schedule they furnish.It is understood that all data deposited in this way will be held as confidential and be used only for scientific purposes.The data received are carefully pre- served in a fireproof vault and indexed so as to be avail- able to the student.Specifically, the Record Office seeks pedigrees of families in which one or more of the following traits appear:-short stature, tallness, corpulency, special talents in music, art, literature, mechanics, invention and PREFACE V mathematics, rheumatism, multiple sclerosis, hereditary- ataxy, M^ni^re's disease, chorea of all forms, eye defects of all forms, otosclerosis, peculiarities of hair, skin and nails (especially red hair), albinism, harelip and cleft palate, pecuharities of the teeth, cancer, Thomsen's disease, hemophilia, exophthalmic goiter, diabetes, alkaptonuria, gout, peculiarities of the hands and feet and of other parts of the skeleton.We do not appeal primarily to physicians for this is believed that a Httle money spent in studying the sources of reproduction of persons who are destined to become state wards will prove a highly profitable investment, since it may lead to steps that will diminish such reproduction.In the preparation of the present volume the author has been aided by many hands.Professor James A. Field, of the University of Chicago, has kindly read the proof and made valuable suggestions.The bibliography and the pedi- gree charts were largely prepared by Miss Amey B. Eaton, of the Eugenics Record Office.Professor

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