Eugenics Research Association 16th Annual Meeting (1)

Program for the joint annual meeting with the American Eugenics Society, held June 2, 1928 at the American Museum of Natural History.

253. Program Eugenics Research Association Presidential Address - The Control by Law of Hereditary Blindness. Dr. Lucien Howe, Howe Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Cambridge, Mass. Discussion from Standpoints of Eugenics and Ophthalmology American Eugenics Society Presidential Address - The Progress of American Eugenics. Dr. Harry H. Laughlin, Eugenics Record Office, Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, N.Y. 1. (a) A Family with Birthmarks for Five Generations. (b) Further Notes on the Southern Mountains. 2. How Large Families Do Feebleminded Parents Have? Dr. H.F. Perkins and Miss Frances R. Conklin, Eugenics Survey of Vermont, Burlington, Vt. 3. The Eugenic Aspect of Mormonism. Professor Roswell H. Johnson, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa. 4. The Eugenic Significance of the Work of the English Birth Control Clinics. Mr. Norman E. Himes, Cambridge, Mass. 5.The Mayflower Descendants Cannot Become Extinct; With Criticism of Certain Published Arguments to the Contrary. Dr. Anita Newcomb McGee, Washington D.C. 6. A Study of the Size of Families of the Borderline Classes. Mr. Leon F. Whitney, American Eugenics Society, New Haven, Conn. 7. A Family Showing Marked Serum Sensitivity Associated with Other Protein Reactions. Mrs. Dorothy Osborn Bagg, Croton Lake, N.Y. 8. Eugenical Aspects of Pelvic Irradiation. Dr. Douglas P. Murphy, Philadelphia, Pa. 9. Some Data on Ethnic Changes Arising in a Community Area as a Result of Differential Rates of Fusion. Mrs. Bessie Bloom Wessel, Director of Research of the Study of Ethnic Factors in Community Life, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 10. Symmetry in Twins. Dr. H.F. Perkins and Miss Laura Bliss, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vt. 11. Relation of Childbirth to Maternal Age and the Interval Between Births Among the Pueblo Indians. Dr. S.B. Aberle, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. 12. The Inheritance of Migraine. Dr. William Allan, Charlotte, N.C. 13. Inheritance of the Age of Onset of Menstruation. (To be read by Title.) Mr. Paul Popenoe, Pasadena, Calif. 14. Progress in the Study of Sterilization in California. (To be read by Title.) Mr. E.S. Gosney and Mrs. Paul Popenoe, Pasadena, Calif.

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