Harvard graduate, Charles Benedict Davenport, was one of the leaders of the American eugenics movement. In 1904, he became the director of the Carnegie Institution’s Station for Experimental Evolution at Cold Spring Harbor, on Long Island, and worked on applying Mendelian genetics concepts to man. With the philanthropic support of Mrs. E. H. Harriman, Davenport developed the Eugenics Record Office in 1910 to educate field workers, promote public lectures, sponsor local societies, collect family histories and surveys, and even offer “heredity counseling” to married couples. Heredity in relation to eugenics, with its emphasis on the study of inherited traits and dispositions to disease, is dedicated to Mrs. Harriman “in recognition of the generous assistance she has given to research.” This particular copy was presented to the American Social Hygiene Association by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., in 1930. Frontispiece, title page, and dedication of Charles Benedict Davenport's Heredity in relation to eugenics
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