398. 3 the subject matter of the Magazine. As yet a large part of the material of the Magazine is reprinted in the annual report. Members are requested to use the individual numbers of the Magazine in securing new numbers, depending upon the bound annual report for their files of the scientific articles. The $2 annual membership fee from about one thousand members has paid the necessary expenses for stationary and for printing the annual report. The increasing membership which comes with the establishment of the Magazine promises to pay expenses and to gradually build up the Magazine. The Association is at present on a basis of something over one thousand members and 150 life memberships. The $20 fee for life members has given a permanent fund of about $3,000. The management of the Association has always kept the expenses within its income and at present there is a small surplus in the current expense fund which is now being used in a campaign for greatly enlarging the membership. The American Breeders Association is proud to come back to its parent Association with a substantial report of progress. It is fair to say that the new Association has greatly increased the interest in the scientific study of heredity, in the improvement of our several billion dollars' worth of plant products, and in the better scientific breeding of our domestic animals. It has assumed the delicated yet important task of leadership in the discussion of heredity of the human family. The officers of the Section of Eugenics, the committees on the different phases of heredity in man, and the editorial officers of the Magazine and annual report have adopted the policy of instituting scientific investigation rather