BACKGROUND INFORMATION

American Eugenics Society Inc.

Society for the Study of Social Biology 1973-1995

American Eugenics Society Inc. 1926-1973

American Eugenics Society 1925-1926

Eugenics Society of the United States of America 1922-1925

*Eugenics Committee of the United States of America 1922-1926

International Commission on Eugenics Ad Interim Committee of the United States of America or "American Ad Interim Committee" 1921

**American Consultative Committee 1912-21

*Formally, the Eugenics Committee of the United States of America was distinct from the Eugenics Society of the United States because the Committee was appointed by the Second International Congress. The only action we know the Committee to have taken is the organization of the Eugenics Society of the United States, which became the American Eugenics Society. The Committee was dissolved when the American Eugenics Society was incorporated; and the Committee funds were then transferred to the Society.

** The American Consultative Committee was appointed at the First International Congress of Eugenics in 1912. It was responsible for organizing the Second International Congress which was scheduled for 1915 but not held till 1921 due to the war. The committee members were: C.B. Davenport, Alexander Graham Bell, William Castle, C.R. Henderson, A. Meyer, F.A. Woods, Ales Hrdlicka, and Vernon Lyman Kellogg. Henry Fairfield Osborn was President of the Congress, which appointed the "Ad Interim Committee".

515 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 1991

Social Sciences Research Council 1989

230 Park Ave., Rm. 1522, New York, NY 1969-73

245 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10017 1967-68

230 Park Ave., New York, NY 1951-1967

1790 Broadway, New York 19, NY 1943-50

RKO Building, Rockefeller Center 1940-41

50 West 50th St., New York, NY 1939

4 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven Connecticut 1935-39

370 Seventh Ave., New York, NY 1926 (NYC office)

185 Church St., New Haven, Connecticut 1922-35

Penn Terminal 1922

Notes on the addresses:

Yale University is in New Haven, Connecticut; 1790 Broadway was also the address of the American Social Hygiene Association and the National Committee for Mental Hygiene (1948); 230 Park Avenue is the Helmsley Hotel which is above Penn Terminal; in the 80's and 90's the Society address given in the journal, Social Biology, is the workplace address of the secretary. For example, when Lonnie Sherrod was secretary, the address was the Social Sciences Research Council where Sherrod worked.

Irving Fisher 1922-26 (Political Economy, Yale University)

Roswell H. Johnson 1926-27 (Cold Spring Harbor, Univ. of Pittsburgh)

Harry Laughlin 1927-29 (Eugenics Record Office)

C. C. Little 1929 (Pres., Michigan University)

Henry Pratt Fairchild 1929-31 (Sociology, New York University)

Henry F. Perkins 1931-34 (Zoology, University of Vermont)

Ellsworth Huntington 1934-38 (Geography, Yale University)

Samuel Holmes 1938-40 (Zoology, University of California)

Maurice Bigelow 1940-45 (sex education, Columbia University)

Frederick Osborn 1946-52 (Osborn-Dodge-Harriman RR connection)

Harry L. Shapiro 1956-63 (American Museum of Natural History)

Clyde V. Kiser 1964-68 (differential fertility, Milbank Memorial Fund)

Dudley Kirk 1969-72 (Demographer, Stanford University)

Bruce K. Eckland 1972-75 (Sociology, University of North Carolina)

L. Erlenmeyer-Kimling 1976-78 (Genetic Psychiatry)

Lindzey Gardner 1979-81 (Center for Advanced Study, Behavioral Sciences)

John L. Fuller 1982-83 (Behavioral genetics)

Michael S. Teitelbaum 1985-1990 (US Congress staff; US population policy)

Robert Retherford 1991-1994 (East-West Institute, Hawaii; funded by AID)

Joseph Lee Rodgers 1994, 1995 (family influences)

1969-95 Social Biology

1953-68 Eugenics Quarterly

1939-53 Eugenical News (published by American Eugenics Society)

1931-38 Eugenical News (published by Eugenical Research Association)

1931 People

1928-31 Eugenics

1922-28 Eugenical News (published by the Eugenical Research Association and the Eugenics Committee/Eugenics Society)

The 1995 editor of Social Biology, was Richard H. Osborne q.v. of the University of Wisconsin at Madison (Emeritus). He was editor 1960-77, retired, then returned as editor by 1981. The managing editor in 1994 was Barbara Teachman Harvey Osborne, wife of the editor.

1939-63 Eugenical News/Eugenics Quarterly printed at 3110 Elm Ave, Baltimore, Md.

1962 Eugenics Quarterly, back issues at 2000 P. St., Washington, D.C.

1963 Eugenics Quarterly, printed at 1323 Greenwood St., Baltimore, Md.

1970 Social Biology, published by the University of Chicago Press

1974- Social Biology published by the Society for the Study of Social Biology

1943-45 "The Executive Committee invites to membership all persons who are interested in human heredity and its control through eugenics"

1946-51 "The Society invites to membership all persons who are interested in human heredity and correlative environment and their eugenic control for improvement of individual, family and race."

1967-73 "To further knowledge of the biological and sociocultural forces affecting human populations"

1974- "To further knowledge of the biological and sociocultural forces affecting human populations and their evolution"

Source: Eugenical News (EN), Eugenics Quarterly (EQ) and Social Biology (SB) for years from 1939-1994; Eugenics for the year 1929; "Brief History of the American Eugenics Society" EN December 1946, vol. 31 #4, p. 49 ff for years from 1922-1940; Minutes of the American Eugenics Society 1925-56 on deposit in American Philosophical Library, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for years from 1925-36; "The Progress of American Eugenics" Eugenics, v. 2, no. 2, 1929 p. 3 ff for years from 1921-29; A History of the American Eugenics Society, 1921-1940, Barry Mehler, PhD Thesis, available from UMI Dissertation Services, 300 N. Zeeb Rd., Ann Arbor, MI, 48106