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Rh were given by American hostesses, namely, by the Duchess of Marlborough at Sunderland House and by Mrs. Whitelaw Reid at Dorchester House.

Thirty-one papers were presented before the congress, in English, French and Italian. The papers from German, Danish and Norwegian sources, as well most of those from Italian, were given in English. Of these thirty-one papers eight came from the United States, their authors being (in order of presentation of paper) Dr. Raymond Pearl, Dr. David F. Weeks, Dr. C. B. Davenport, Mr. Bleecker van Wagenen, Professor S. G. Smith, Professor V. L. Kellogg, Dr. Frederick Adams Woods and Professor H. E. Jordan. Dr. Weeks, Dr. Davenport and Professor Jordan were unable to be present, and their papers were read by their colleagues.

The decision as to the time and place of the next congress was deferred and will be made in August, 1913, by the permanent international committee, which has been provisionally organized subject to re-arrangement by the various national consultative committees. San Francisco presented an invitation to the committee to hold the next congress there in 1915 at the time of the Panama-Pacific Exposition, and the committee members are inclined to consider the invitation seriously. Dr. Ploetz, of Munich, president of the International Society for Race Hygiene, presented informally to the delegates a plan for the establishment of an international union of scientific race hygiene and eugenics societies which