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THE report of the Twelfth Conference of the International Federation of Eugenic Organizations, held at Scheveningen, Holland, in July 1936, has just been issued, and can be obtained from W. P. van Stockum and Zn., N.V., The Hague, Holland, price three Dutch florins. A list of the fifty delegates from twenty countries is followed by twenty-five papers presented at the meetings. The papers range from the classification and inheritance of mental defects to mutations in plants and man, twin studies and the problems of sterilization in Germany, Denmark, Sweden and the United States. The 119 pages end with a report of the Human Heredity Bureau and also reports on the standardization of measurements in anthropometry, physiometry, psychometry and on racial psychiatry.
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International Federation of Eugenic Organizations. Nature 141, 31 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141031f0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/141031f0