TO HOLD EUGENICS CONGRESS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1330, 6 January 1912, Page 13

TO HOLD EUGENICS CONGRESS.

INTERNATIONA!/ BODY TO MEET IN LONDON IN JULY, 1912. An-international eugenics congress will be hold at tho University of London, between July 24 and 30, 1912, under the presidency of Major Leonard Darwin. Among tho vice-presidents of the congress will be Dr. Alfred Ploetz and Professor M. Van Gruber, of Germany, Professor Forel, of Switzerland, Dr. Dejerine, Dr. Monouvrier, and Dr. Perrier, of France, and Professor Sergi, of. Italy. The American representatives will include Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, Dr. Charles W. Eliot, David Starr Jordan, E. E. Southard, Gifford Pinchot, and Bleecker van Wagenen. Promoters of tho congress plan a small exhibit of methods and results in eugenics and a series of papers to be read. In a letter, Major Darwin expresses his hope that "the result of this congress will a far wider recognition of the necessity for an immediate and serious consideration of eugenic problems (i.e., the problems of improving the innate qualities of tho race) in all civilised countries."