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THE biennial conference of the International Federation of Eugenic Organisations will take place at Zurich on July 18–21 under the presidency of Prof. Ernst Rüdin of Munich. A programme has been arranged providing for the discussion of subjects of immediate interest in which eminent specialists have been invited to take part. Addresses will be delivered by, among others, Prof, Rüdin on “Racial Psychiatry—a Scheme for Topographical Research in Europe”, Dr. Mjoer on “Measurement of Psychological Faculty as shown in Musical Ability”, and Prof. Von Verschuer on “Researches in Twins”. Dr. Rudin will also explain the provisions of the recent German eugenics law; and it is hoped that one of the public health officers of the Reich will give an address on the questionnaire now used in Germany for assessing intelligence grade. Among the subjects down for discussion are the assessment of feeble-mindedness-to be held in a joint session of the Committee for Racial Psychiatry and Section B of the International Committee for the Standardisation of Human Measurement—mental measurement and its relation to diagnosis of temperamental type, aspects of the problems of differences between, and inheritance in, monozygotic and dizygotic twins, and the best methods of conducting a central clearing house for human heredity, this last-named including the questions of the establishment of national bureaux, and the protection of authors whose material is published. The work of the Standardisation Committee in Anthropometry will be continued at the International Congress of Anthropological Sciences to be held in London at the end of July.
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International Eugenics Conference. Nature 133, 865 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133865b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/133865b0