ID# 397:
American Breeders Association report on new eugenics section
Date:
1909
Pages: (1|2|3|4|5)
Source:
American Philosophical Society, Dav, B:D27.,American Breeders Assoc

American Breeders Association report on new eugenics section

2 Seventh Annual Meeting has been called to meet with the National Corn Exposition at Columbus, Ohio, February 1, 2 and 3, 1911. The American Breeders Association has successfully carried out the purpose of your organization committee in bringing in both plant breeding and animal breeding. As originally formed, besides general officers, there was a section of Plant Breeding and a Section of Animal Breeding. By a nearly unanimous vote by mail of the membership in 1910 the Constitution of the Association was changed, adding a third section relating to heredity in man, called the Eugenics Section. The five reports of the annual meetings already published and the sixth report now in preparation have the credit in America and abroad of containing the best collection extant of authentic knowledge relating to heredity and breeding. During 1910 the association established a magazine under the name American Breeders Magazine. Up to this time the membership was confined largely to scientists and technical breeders, but with the organization of a magazine the effort is being made to build up a large membership of practical plant breeders and animal breeders and of people who have a general interest in heredity in man. The work of the Association is largely done through committees, nearly fifty in number. These committees carry the main responsibility of securing from the members of the Association and others the addresses and papers presented at the annual meeting. These papers, together with special articles, editorials, and news items secured by the Secretary or prepared in his office, make up

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