4 than entering campaigns for promoting any existing theories regarding the improvement of heredity in man. Under the direction of this section, private funds have been supplied so that a number of people are devoting their entire time to investigations in different phases of eugenic. An article in No. 3 of Vol. I of the Magazine by Dr. Goddard of New Jersey on "Heredity of Feeblemindedness" illustrates the fact that we have an open field for investigation of very great importance in human heredity. It is believed that the Association is greatly stimulating the work of breeding in department of agriculture and State experiment stations and by private institutions and individuals. Annually larger and larger expenditures of money and time are being devoted to working out the facts and methods needed by breeders of plants and animals, and larger and larger sums are being placed at the disposal of those who under public or private auspices create new varieties, breeds, and strains with new values. The promotion committee which called the first meeting of the American Breeders Association was composed of the following named gentlemen: Professor W.M. Hays, University of Minnesota, St. Anthony Park, Minn., Chairman; Director L.H. Bailey, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.; Professor Thomas F. Hunt, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.; Dr. Herbert J. Webber, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., and Dean Charles F. Curtiss, Iowa Agricultural College, Ames Iowa. The Association and its Council have assumed the work delegated to the promotion committee. It is now suggested that this statement be received as the final report of the promotion committee and that it be discharged.