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Terms of Membership 2
Travelling Facilities, ^
Regulations as to Communications +
Provisional Programme ^
Programme of the Exhibition 7
President, Officers, and Committees of the Congress 8
All Conwiiiiiicafioiis should be addressed to the Secretaries.
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The First International Eugenics Congress, London,
To be held at the University of London,
WEDNESDAY, JULY 24th, to TUESDAY, 30th, 1912.
EUGENICS, as Sir Francis Galtoii aptly termed the study of the agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations, presents problems of the utmost social importance.
At present the most urgent need is for more knowledge, both of the facts of heredity and of the effects of social institutions in causing racial change. As knowledge accrues, it must be disseminated and translated into action. The imparting of such knowledge would constitute a great advance in education : for both private individuals and public bodies have yet to be impressed with the gravity of the situation, and induced to act on eugenic principles. Ultimately it may be possible to induce Society to adopt a well-considered eugenic policy and to carry out reforms on eugenic lines.
To attain these ends, however, it is necessary that those who are alive to the dangers of the present social situation should combine together for the purpose of exchanging views, and to discuss a concerted scheme of action. For these reasons the Eugenics Education Society has arranged to hold an International Eugenics Congress in London in July, 1912.
The General Committee extend a cordial invitation to attend the Meetings of the First International Eugenics Congress to —
(1) x\ll Societies studying Eugenics, Race-Hygiene and Heredity.
(2) Delegates from public bodies occupied in Administration, Education, Religion, Medicine and Law.
(3) All who are interested in the various aspects of Eugenics and Social Reform.
Arrangements have been made by which the Meetings of the Congress, as well as the Exhibition, wdll be held at the University of London, South Kensington. Interpreters will be in attendance to assist members who are unfamiliar with the English language.
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OBJECTS.
It is hoped, by means of this Congress, to make more widely known the results of the investigations of those factors which are making for racial im- provement or decay ; to discuss to what extent existing knowledge warrants legislative action ; to organise the co-operation of existing societies and workers by the formation of an International Committee or otherwise, and to hold an Exhibition, etc.
GENERAL PROGRAMME. As intimated in the Preliminary Circular, the general heads under which the subjects to be dealt with at the Congress will be grouped are as follows —
1. THE BEHRING UPON EUGENICS OF BIOLOGICHL RESEHRCH.
Facts of Heredity. Physiological aspects of Heredity. Variations, their nature and causation. Race Mixture.
2. THE BEHRING UPON EUGENICS OF SOCIOLOGICHL HND HISTORICHL
RESEHRCH.
Historical evidence with regard to changes in racial characters. Birth Rate and Heath Rate Statistics. Effects of medical and surgical treatment in encouraging unfitness.
3. THE BEHRING UPON EUGENICS OF LEGISLHTION HND SOCIHL
CUSTOMS.
Marriage Laws and Customs. Taxation. Economic Conditions. Insurance. Trades Unionism.
4. CONSIDERHTION OF THE PRHCTICHL HPPLICHTIONS OF EUGENIC
PRINCIPLES.
Prevention of the propagation of the Unfit by segregation and sterilization. Voluntary restriction of propagation of the unsound. The encouiagement of the propagation of the Fit. Promulgation of the Eugenic Ideal. The place of Eugenics in Educational Systems.
A full Programme, with complete local arrangements, will be forwarded to all members at least a month before the Meeting takes place. A detailed Programme for the Meetings of the day will be distributed to the members early each morning at the reception room.
Membership is acquired by the payment of £1. Members have the right to vote ; they participate in all the functions of the Congress and receive the publications gratuitously.
Persons desiring to attend the Congress as Associates pay 10 -. They are precluded from voting and are not entitled to receive the ijubli- cations gratuitously, but they may be present at all Meetings of the Congress.
Receipts and Railway Vouchers will be forwarded on receipt of the amount of subscription, which may be paid in cash, by postal money order, or by cheque payal)le to tlie Assistant 'I'reasurer of the Congress, 0, York Buildings, Adel])hi.
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TRAVELLIMG FACILITIES. All the British and some of the Continental Railways have very kindly granted exceptional facilities to members of the Congress. In all cases, the Congress Voucher (which will be sent together with the receipt for members’ subscriptions to each subscriber), must be presented to the booking clerk at the station of departure.
Great Britain and Ireland. Special return tickets will be issued to Members of the First International Eugenics Congress from July 23rd to July 31st inclusive, at the rate of a single fare and a third from all parts of the United Kingdom.
France. From Paris to London the special reduced return fares will be First-Class, 72f. 85c. ; Second-Class, 46f. 85c. ; Third-Class, 37f. 50c. Return available for 15 days from July 22nd.
These tickets are available by the following trains : —
Paris [Via Boulogne ... (dept.) 8-25 a.m. ... 2-30 p.m. ...
(Nord) [Via Calais ... 9-20 p.m.
Charing Cross (arrive) ... 3-25 p.m. ...10-45 p.m. ... 5-43 a.m.
Special arrangements can be made for reserved accommodation. Tickets to be obtained at the Paris Nord Station, or at the Office of the South Eastern and Chatham Railway (14 Ruedu4 Septembre) on presentation of the Congress Voucher.
Germany. Members from Germany desiring to obtain reduced rates are requested to communicate, through their Secretary, with the General Agent of the South Eastern and Chatham Railway Office in Cologne (6 Domhof). Provided at least 20 members travel together on the journey to London arrangements can be made for reduced fares at 50% reduction from the Belgian or from the Dutch Frontier to London and back. At least 14 days’ notice must be given to secure these facilities.
Hotel Arrangements. Arrangements are being made for the accommodation of the visitors attending the Conference either for the full period, or per day, for Room and Breakfast, leaving the members to make their own arrangements for Lunch and Dinner at nlaces suitable to their convenience.
The rates for Room and Breakfast, are from 4s. to 5s. Od. Early application stating exact requirements is necessary.
Intending members are particularly requested to intimate their intention to attend the Congress, to the Secretary, on the annexed form as soon as possible, in order that their names and addresses may be registered, and all subsequent communications concerning the Congress sent to them.
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THE RECEPTIOH COMMITTEE are arranging for a series of Evening Receptions, Afternoon Parties, Dinners, Excursions, etc. The plans when completed will be duly announced to all who intimate their intention to be present at the Congress.
CORRESPONDEMCE. From July 24th to 30tli, members of the Congress may have their letters addressed to them at The First International Eugenics Congress, c/o. The University of London, South Kensington, S.W.
The Organizing Committee, after deliberation with the Consultative Committees and representatives of participating countries, have made definite arrangements for the treatment of various selected subjects which they consider of special importance.
In each case the subject will be introduced by a paper read by a leading authority, followed by a discussion in which other specialists have agreed to take part. The subjects thus provisionally arranged for, and the names of some of those who have already promised papers are given below.
All further contributions which may be sent in will be most carefully considered by the Committee, and such of them as are considered suitable will be allotted a place in the programme of proceedings as far as time permits.
Even on the subjects for which definite arrangements have been made additional contributions may be sent, and these will be considered.
As the Congress is international, it is proper that the subjects submitted for consideration should be of wide importance and of permanent interest.
When the Committee have definitely selected the papers to be read it will be decided to what extent, if at all, the Congress will be divided into groups or sections for the purpose of holding meetings. But in any case the business will be so arranged that as far as possible all the subjects for discussion and consideration will be brought before all the Members. When necessary Committees will be appointed to deal with special subjects.
It is requested that contributors of pa'pers to the Congress will send their complete manuscripts {preferably type-written) before the middle of May, 1912. Each of these must he accompanied by an abstract not exceeding in length 1,500 words.
Communications intended for the Congress may be written in English, French, German or Italian. The Committee reserves to itself the right of limiting the time to be allowed to each speaker.
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PROVISIOMHL PROGRAMME.
The following have promised either to give papers or j)articipate in the discussions ; —
1. THE BEHRIMG UPON EUGEMICS OF BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH.
Papei
Dr. Raymond Pearl
(Director of the Maine Agricul- tural Station).
Professor R. Punneti
(Professor of Biology, Cambridge).
Dr. David F. Weeks
(Superintendent of the New Jersey State Village for Epileptics).
PjfOFESSOR GuISEPPE SeRGI
(Professor of Anthropology, the University of Rome).
Professor E. Morselli
(Professor of Psychiatry, Univer- sity of Genoa).
Professor V. Giuffrida-Ruggeri (Professor of Anthropology, Univer- sity of Naples).
“ The Inheritance of Fecundity.”
“ Eugenics and Genetics.”
“ The Inheritance of Epilepsy.”
“Heredity and Mutability in Human Races.”
“ Persistence and Variation of Racial Characters, particu- lary with regard to Ethnical Psychology.
“ The so-called Laws of Heredity in Man.”
Discussion.
Professor W. Bateson. Professor J. Arthur Thomson. Dr. Archdall Reid.
2. THE BEARIMG UPOH EUGENICS OF SOCIOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL
RESEARCH.
Papers.
Dr. Corrado Gini
(Professor of Statistics, University of Cagliaro).
Dr. F. a. Woods (Harvard Medical School).
Mrs. C. D. Whetham and W. C. D. Whetham, F.R.S.
Dr. Ignacio Valenti y Vivo.
(Professor of Medicine and Toxi- chology, University of Barcelona)
“ The Problem of Eugenics from the Democratic Point of View.”
“ Some Interrelations between Eugenics and Historical Research.”
“ Race as a Factor in History.”
“ A Healthy Sane Family show- ing Longevity in Catalonia.
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3. THE BEHRIMG UPON EUGENICS OF LEGISLATION AND SOCIAL CUSTOMS.
Papers.
Dr. C. B. Davenport (Superintendent American Eugenics Record Office, Long Island, N.Y.)
Professor J. L. Kellogg,
(Professor of Entomology, Stanford University).
Professor D. Starr Jordan
(Professor Leland Stanford Uni- versity ; President American Eugenics Section).
Professor Alfredo Niceforo, (Professor of Statistics, University of Naples.)
Professor A. Loria
(Professor of Political Economy, University of Turin).
Monsieur Lucien March,
(Superintendentof the Bureau of the Statistique Generale dela France)
Fraulein Dr. Agnes Bluhm (Berlin).
Marriage Laws and Customs.”
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Eugenics and Militarism.”
“ War and National Welfare.”
“ The cause of the Inferiority of Physical and Mental Char- acters in the lower social classes.”
“ The Physio -Psychological Aris- tocracy and the Social Aristocrac}^.”
“ The fertility of Marriages, according to profession and social class.
“ Race Hygiene and Midwifery.”
Discussions.
Sir John Macdonnell, C.B., LL.D.
4. CONSIDERATION OF THE PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF EUGENIC
PRINCIPLES.
Papers.
Sir William Osler, M.D., F.R.S. (Regius Professor of Medicine, Oxford).
Mr. Bleecher van Wagenen
(Chairman of the Sterilization Committee American Breeders’ Association.)
Dr. H. E. Jordan
(Professor of Anatomy, University of Virginia.)
Dr. F. C. S. Schiller.
“ Eugenics and the Medical Profession.”
” Report of Recent Investiga- tions as to the effects and practicability of Steriliza- tion.
“ The Place of Eugenics in the Medical Curriculum.”
Dr. a. Ploetz
(President of the International Society for Race Hygiene, Germany).
Dr. Pinard.
Discussions.
Professor Sadler.
” Practicable Ai)plications of Eugenics to Education.”
” The Bearing of Neo-Malthus- ianism on Eugenics.”
Dr. Murray Leslie.
The Organising Committee reserve to itself the privilege of determining the order and nature of the proceedings of each day.
programme of the EXHlBITIOIl.
The Exhibition in connection with tlie hirst International Eugenics Congress will include —
(1) Charts, pedigrees, photographs, and specimens illustrative of Heredity, especially in man.
(2) Relics of Charles Darwin, Sir Francis Galtou and Gregor Mendel.
(3) Portraits of Notable Workers,
The Committee desires to make the Exhibition as fully representative as possible of the present state and past history of the science of Heredity and Eugenics.
It is intended that the Exhibition shall be International, and it is therefore hoped that contributions will be received from all the countries taking part in the Congress.
The Committee will be glad of an early intimation of the character of the exhibits and the space likely to be required by any exhibitor.
In every case this information should be sent and a reply awaited before the exhibit is despatched.
A Catalogue of the Exhibition will be published.
The Exhibition will be held in the Buildings of the London University, South Kensington, London, S.W,
All communications with regard to the Exhibition should be addressed to
The Secretary for the Exhibition,
Eugenics Education Society,
0, York Buildings, Adelphi, London, W.C.
In order that the Meeting of the Congress should be useful and successful, it is necessary that the regulations as to the contribution of papers to be read, of the resolutions to be discussed, and as to the arrangements for the Exhibition, be rigidly adhered to.
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President
*MSJOR LEOMHRD DKRWIM.
Vice-Presidents.
Sir Ci.iFRORU Allrutt, K.C.B., F.li.S., M.D., Kegius Professor of Physic, Ciimbridge.
The Hight Hox. Lord Alvekstone, G.C.M.G., LL.D., Lord Chief Justice.
The Right Hox. Lord Avebury, F.R.8.
Sir ^Thomas JJarlow, Hart., K.C.V.O., F.R.S., President of the Royal College of Physicians.
1)R. Alexander Graham Hell, Founder of the Volta Bureau, Wasliington.
Sir Willl^m Church, K.C.B., D.Sc., lately President of the Royal^College of Physicians. The Right Hon. Winston Churchill, M.P., First Lord of the Admiralty.
Sir Willlvm Collins, F.R.C.S., Vice-Chancellor of the University of London.
Hr. C. B. Davenport, Secretary of the American Breeders’ Association.
Dr. J. Dejerixe, Clinical Professor of Nervous Diseases, Salpetriere.
Br. Charles W. Eliot, President Emeritus of Harvard Univeristy.
Dr. Augu.ste Forel, Lately Professor of Psychiatry, University of Zurich.
Sir Archibald Geikie, President of the Royal Society.
Rickman J. Godlee, F.R.C.S., President of the Royal College of Surgeons.
Professor M. von Gruber, Professor of Hygiene, Municli, President of the German Society for Race Hygiene.
Dr. David Starr Jordan, Principal, Leland Stanford University. President of the Eugenic Section, American Breeders’ Association.
L. March, Director, Statisticiuc Generale de la France.
The Right Hox. Reginald McKenna, M.P., Secretary of State for Home Affairs.
The Right Hon. The Lord Mayor of London.
Dr. Magnan, I’Asile Sainte-Anne, Paris.
Dr. L. IManouvrier, Professor of Anthropology, Paris.
Dr. a. Marie, Asiles de la Seine.
Sir Henry Alexander Miers, D.Sc., F.R.S., Principal of the University of London. Pjjofessor Alfredo Niceforo, Professor of Statistics, Naples.
Sir William Osler, M.D.,F.R.S., Regius Professor of Medicine, Oxford.
The Right Rev. The Lord Bishop of Oxford, D.l).
Dr. E. Perrier, Director, Natural History Museuuj, Paris.
Gifford Pinchot, Washington.
Dr. Alfred Ploetz, President of the International Society for Race Hygiene, Germany. Sir William Ramsay, F.R.S., Professor of Chemistry, University of London.
The Right Rev. The Loitn Bishop of Rii*on, D.D.
Professor G. J. Sergi, Professor of Anthropology, Rome.
Dr. E. E. Southard, Neuro-Pathologist, Harvard University, and Director of tlie State Psychoi)athological Hospital.
The Right Hon. Sir T. Vezey Strong, K.C.V.O.
Bleecuer van Wagenen, of the Board of Trustees, Vineland Training School, New Jersey, U.S.A.
I’ROFEHSOR August Weismann, IT-ofessor of Zoology, Freiburg.
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MEMBERS OF GENERAL COMMITTEE.
Sir James Barh, ^1.1)., F.R.O.P., F.K.S.E. Sir Edward Brabrooe, C.B.
Sir James Crichton-Browne, F.R.s.
Rev. R. J. Campbell, M.A.
The Hon. Sir John Cockburn, K.C.M.G., M.D.
^Montague Craokanthorpe, K.C.
R. Newton Crane, M.A.
A. E. Crawlea% M.A.
Sir Henry Cunningham, K.C.LE.
Francis Darwin, Sc.D., M.B., F.R.S.
Dr. C. B. Davenport.
Dr. Langdon Down.
Havelock Ellis.
The Hon. Sir John Findlay, K.C.jM.G.,
LL.D.
Professor J. J. Findlay, M.A.
Dr. Wilfred Hadley.
IHrs. H. N. C. Heath.
Admiral W. H. Henderson. jMonsieur Huber.
The Very Rev. The Dean of St. Paul’s,
D.D.
Dr. David Starr Jordan.
R. Dixon Kingham, M.A.
]\Iiss Kirby. *
J. Ernest Lane, F.R.C.S.
The Rev. Hon. Edward Ly'ttelton, jM.A. Lady Owen Mackenzie.
W. C. Marshall, M.A.
Colonel Melville, R.A.M.C.
Lady Outoline Morrell.
F. W. Mott, M.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.S.
G. P. Mudge, F.Z.S.
Professor A. Niceforo.
Mrs. j. Penrose.
]\IRS. E. F. PINSENT.
Dr. a. Ploktz.
Mrs. G. Pooley.
Professor E. B. Poulton, LL. D., D.Sc.
F.R.S.
I ^Professor R. C. Punnett, M.A.
WAJ.TER Rea, M.P.
G. Archdall Reid, M.P)., F.R.S.E.
; John Russell, M.A. i Ettie Sayer, M.D.
j C. G. Sbligmann, M.D.
> Professor Arthur Schuster, P1i.D.,I).Sc, F.R.S.
' *Edgar Schuster, M.x\., D.Sc.
F. C. S. Schiller, M.A., D.Sc.
Lady Henry Somerset. i Dr. j. W. Slaughter.
W. Sullivan, M .D.
Professor J. A. Thomson, jM.A.
[ *A. F. Tredgold, L.R.C.P.
I *Mrs. Al.EC Tweedie.
W. C. 1). Whetham, M .A., F.R.S.
Arnold White.
I A. Gordon Wilson, M.D., F.R.C.S.
*P. VON Fleischl, Hon. Treasurer.
*MRS. Gotto, Hon. Secretary.
* DoDotes IMembers of Executive Comiuittee.
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AM1:RIC AX COXSUI/rATIVi: C ( )MMITTI^K.
President - ])R. David Starr Joiidan.
Committee.
Di*. C. n. Davenport, Alexander Graham Bell, Professors W. E. Castle, Charles R. Henderson, Adolpli IMeyer, A. flrdlicka, Vernon L. Kellogg, .1. Webber,
W. L. Tower, Dr. Frederick Adams Woods.
Secretary and Treasurer— Dr. C. B. Davenm’ORT, Eugenics Record Olliee, Cold Spring
Harbor, Long Island, New York.
FRi^xcii coxsi;i/rATivi<: committi:i:.
Hon. Presidents.
MM. HorcuiAiiD, Henry Ciikron, Yves Delage, Paul Doumer, A. de Foville,
Landoitzv, Paul Strauss.
President - M. Edward Perrier.
Committee.
M. M. Dejerine, Gide, March, Magnan, Manouvrier, Marie, Pinard, Yariot.
Secretary and Treasurer -M. HIniER, Statistiqne Generale de la Franco, Paris.
97, Quai D’Orsay.
CilCRMAX COXSUI/rATlVK C( )mmitti:f..
President - - Dll. ALFRED Ploetz.
Committee.
The Committee of the International Society for Race Hygiene.
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COMMITTFK.
President - - PROFESSOR Alfredo Niceforo.
Professors
Corrado Sante do
Committee.
Gini, Achille Loria, Roberto :Michels, Enrico Sanctis, Ginse])po Sergi, Y. Ginffrida-Ruggeri.
Morselli,
Secretary- Docteur Rorerto Assigiol, Via Alfani, 40, Florence,
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