INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION ON EUGENICS
EUGENICS COMMITTEE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

IRVING FISHER, Chairman
MADISON GRANT.
C. C. LITTLE.

HENRY E. CRAMPTON, Secretary-Treasurer,
BARNARD COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY,
NEW YORK CITY.

CHARLES B. DAVENPORT, Vice-Chairman.
HARRY OLSON.
HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN.

ADVISORY COUNCIL

Prof. W. S. Anderson
Mr. Frank L. Babbott
Dr. Lewellys F. Barker
Mr. Frederick S. Bigelow
Dr. Hermann M. Biggs
Dr. Harold Bowditch
Dr. Philip K. Brown
Prof. Walter B. Cannon
Prof. W. E. Castle
Prof. Edwin G. Conklin
Rev. John M. Cooper
Sen. Royal S. Copeland
Mr. Alexander B. Coxe
Surg.-Gen. H. S. Cumming
Prof. C. H. Danforth
Dr. Oscar Dowling

Dr. Knight Dunlap
Prof. Edward M. East
Dr. Charles W. Eliot
Dr. Haven Emerson
Dr. Arthur H. Estabrook
Dr. David Fairchild
Pres. Livingston Farrand
Dr. Walter E. Fernald
Dr. Eugene L. Fisk
Mr. Austin B. Fletcher
Mr. Homer Folks
Rev. Harry E. Fosdick
Mr. Robert Garrett
Prof. Franklin H. Giddings
Mr. Charles W. Gould
Prof. William K. Gregory

Prof. Michael F. Guyer
Prof. Winfield Scott Hall
Mrs. E. H. Harriman
Prof. Ross G. Harrison
Prof. Samuel J. Holmes
Dr. Earnest A. Hooton
Dr. Lucien Howe
Dr. Ales Hrdlicka
Mr. Arthur Hunter
Prof. Ellsworth Huntington
Dr. John N. Hurty
Dr. Woods Hutchinson
Dr. Walter B. James
Mrs. Wortham James
Mrs. Helen Hartley Jenkins
Prof. H. S. Jennings
Hon. Albert Johnson

Prof. Roswell H. Johnson
Dr. David Starr Jordan
Prof. H. E. Jordan
Mrs. Otto Kahn
Dr. W. W. Keen
Dr. John H. Kellogg
Dr. Vernon Kellogg
Dr. Helen Dean King
Prof. Charles A. Kofoid
Dr. Daniel W. LaRue
Dr. H. H. Laughlin
Bishop William Lawrence
Prof. Frank R. Lillie
Rev. Frederick Lynch
Prof. C. E. McClung
Dr. William McDougall
Pres. J. C. Merriam

Prof. Maynard M. Metcalf
Prof. Adolf Meyer
Prof. Ann Haven Morgan
Pres. Lemuel H. Murlin
Pres. W. A. Nelson
Senator Robert L. Owen
Prof. George H. Parker
Dr. Stewart Paton
Pres. E. F. Pendleton
Mr. Paul Popence
Dr. W. S. Rankin
Dr. Aaron J. Rosanoff
Mrs. C. C. Rumsey
Brig.-Gen. Charles E. Sawyer
Prof. C. E. Seashore
Dr. William F. Snow

Prof. Charles R. Stockard
Mr. Lothrop Stoddard
Prof. Lewis M. Terman
Prof. Robert J. Terry
Prof. Edward L. Thorndike
Dean Victor C. Vaughan
Prof. Herbert E. Walter
Prof. Robert DeC. Ward
Dr. William H. Welch
Prof. William M. Wheeler
Pres. Ray Lyman Wilbur
Prof. Harris H. Wilder
Prof. Walter F. Willcox
Dr. Clark Wissler
Dr. Frederick A. Woods
Dr. Robert S. Woodward

Barnard College, New York City,

October 10, 1923.

Professor Ellsworth Huntington,
Yale University,
New Haven, Connecticut.

My dear Professor Huntington:

I enclose a copy of the Eugenics Program as finally authorized. As stated at the end, it is, of course, still tentative, and I would be very glad, if you have any suggestions to make to improve it, to have you send them to me.

I am writing more especially, however, to ask you for suggestions as to the chairmanship and make-up of the committees which are being formed, especially the committees on Finance, on Selective Immigration, on Crime Prevention, and on History and Survey of the Eugenics movement. I enclose a list of names that have been suggested as suitable members for all of these committees. I would be glad to have your confidential comments on these names and as many suggestions of other names as you care to make.

Every member of the committees should be selected with reference to his likelihood to render useful service. Unlike the Advisory Council these committees will be primarily working committees and not primarily for the prestige of the names of the members.

Ultimately we may want a man as Executive Secretary, someone who is of the very first rank among organizers and is informed and enthusiastic on our subject. I have as possibilities for such a position the names of Reverend Frank W. Lorimer, Mr. William A. McKeever, and President Arthur E. Morgan of Antioch College.

Besides a head there should ultimately be, as fast as we can afford them, able executive secretaries for each working committee, (who would work under the chairman of such a committee) and would serve as a connecting link between that committee and the chief Executive Secretary of the Association. I have thought of Miss Emily Robbins as a possibility for the executive secretary for the Committee on Crime Prevention.

13. Committee on Organization.

Object - to formulate and recommend plans for the organization of the Eugenics Society which will insure the greatest interest among its members and increase its membership and influence.

Mrs. J. B. Henderson.
President Morgan (Antioch College)

14. Committee on Selective Immigration.

Object - to recommend eugenic immigration legislation, and on
approval by the parent committee, secure its enactment.

This Committee was appointed at a meeting of the Eugenics
Committee on April 28, 1923, but it will be necessary to add
additional members.

Present Committee:

Madison Grant, Chairman.
H. H. Laughlin.
Robert DeCourcy Ward.

Suggestions for additional members are as follows:

Carl C. Brigham.
Franklin H. Giddings.
Charles W. Gould.
Frank Kinnicut.
E. A. Ross.
Lothrop Stoddard.
John B. Trevor.

15. Editorial Committee.

To help edit the "Eugenical News" in cooperation with the
Eugenics Research Association.

Present joint committee:

Charles B. Davenport, Chairman (Representing both
organizations.)
H. H. Laughlin, (Representing Eugenics Research
Association.)
Margaret Andrus, (Temporary editor for Eugenics
Committee until next Committee meeting when a
permanent editor can be elected.)

16. Committee on Cooperation with Physicians.

Lewellys F. Barker.
E. H. Lewinski Corwin.
Bashford Dean.
Lydia Allen DeVilbiss.
Walter B. James.
W. W. Keen.
John Harvey Kellogg.
George H. Kirby.
William F. Snow.
Victor C. Vaughan.

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February 22, 1933

Professor Irving Fisher
460 Prospect Street
New Haven, Conn.

Dear Professor Fisher:

In order that there may be no misunderstanding, I am writing
to give you the exact figures in regard to your pledge to the American
Eugenics Society. As I understand it, your plan is that as soon as you
are able to give liberally to the Society, you will first pay the fol-
lowing sums to persons who have made contributions but who are not able
to afford them.

Professor Willystine Goodsell $360.00
Mr. Leon F. Whitney 343.00
Mr. S. Wayne Evans 106.67

Sincerely yours,

EH/mb

ELLSWORTH HUNTINGTON

Dhebdknifed salaries and the charges for expenses of directors
were explained in my letter to the Eastman estate, and were accepted at
once without question. Part of the money thus received has been used to
pay back bills, part to transfer our exhibit material to the room under
my office, and the rest is reserved for running expenses. On behalf of
the society I want to express our deep gratitude to you, and on my own be-
half I want to express my admiration for the way in which you have taken
financial reverses.

December 29, 1954

Professor Irving Fisher
The Cosmos Club
Washington, D. C.

Dear Professor Fisher:

Dr. Huntington has asked me today to inform you that the Board of Directors of the American Eugenics Society will meet at 4 o'clock on Wednesday, January 9th, at the Town Hall Club, New York.

Will you please let Dr. Huntington know if you can be present.

PROFESSOR IRVING FISHER

460 PROSPECT STREET
NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT

June 17, 1935

Prof. Ellsworth Huntington
Laboratory of Applied Physiology
Yale University
New Haven, Conn.

My dear Professor Huntington:

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October 3, 1935

Professor Irving Fisher
460 Prospect Street
New Haven, Connecticut

Dear Professor Fisher:

I was planning this morning to write to you and thank you for your kindness in providing a place for the Board of Directors of the Eugenics Society to meet last Tuesday. The Yale Club is certainly a very pleasant place for that purpose.

I want also to say that I am sorry that you do not feel that you had better be on the Executive Committee. I should have liked to have you there, and I hope that you can attend some of the meetings.

Your list of persons for our correspondence list has just come. Thank you very much. I hope that you will add to it as time goes on.

EH:JS

PROFESSOR IRVING FISHER

September 15, 1936

Prof. Ellsworth Huntington, President
American Eugenics Society
50 West 50th Street
New York City.

Dear Sir:

Your letter of September 14, addressed to
the Directors of the American Eugenics Society has been
received in Professor Fisher's absence abroad. It will be
brought to his attention at the earliest possible moment.

As Professor Fisher does not expect to
return to this country until about October 24 it will not
be possible for him to attend the meeting of the Board on
October 8.

St

May 2, 1938

Dear Professor Fisher,

It is not at all too late for your criticisms
of the new publication entitled *Practical Eugenics*. The final
printing of 25,000 copies will not take place for some time.

Mr. Pile is a very curious man. I met him in Kansas
City. He has a very sincere desire to be of service to humanity
and to perform that service through eugenics. He has, however,
no scientific knowledge and very little judgment, as to how he
should proceed.

Inasmuch as he is determined to go ahead and do something
about eugenics, I have tried to give him some guidance, but I have
very positively told him that the American Eugenics Society cannot
endorse him. He is a very difficult type to deal with.

EH:RM

PROFESSOR IRVING FISHER

June 8, 1938

Professor Ellsworth Huntington
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut

My dear Professor Huntington:

We want to thank you as a member of the Hygiene
Reference Board of the Life Extension Institute for
your interest and help in connection with our book,
"How to Live".

We are sending you, under separate cover, a compli-
mentary copy of the 20th edition of "How to Live", which
is just off the press. We hope you will enjoy reading
this new book.

We would like to call your attention to the 32 orig-
inal articles in the appendix which are a new feature of
the 20th edition.

You may be interested in knowing that we are donating
the royalties from the sale of this book to "Vitality
Records", through which it is hoped valuable information
may be obtained regarding the influence of habits on
health.

We enclose a popularly written article from "Readers
Digest", which will tell you more about this organization.

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