'While the Institute of Applied Statistics [at UCL] was first in the field, it has been rapidly followed by foundations covering to a great extent the same ground not only in America, but in some of the chief states of Europe. The Julius Klaus foundation in Zurich under the able direction of Professor Otto Schlaginhaufen with its excellent Journal; the Swedish State Institute in Lund under Professor H. Lundborg, which has just issued its magnificent preliminary study of Swedish Anthropometry, a study which must precede any effective treatment of the problem of national welfare; the well-known Institute for Biometry and Vital Statistics under Professor Raymond Pearl in Baltimore; the recently opened Italian Institute for Statistics at Rome under Professor Corrado Gini; and the last, but probably destined to become the most important, Institute for Social Hygiene and Eugenics under Professor Eugen Fischer in Berlin, only opened in September. This latter institute, part of the Kaiser Wilhelm foundation for research in the natural sciences, consists of three great research sections each under a separate sub-director. The first is to deal with anthropology – as Galton recognised, a preliminary to the study of the influence of environment and heredity in man -, the second great section is to deal with heredity in man, and the third section is to apply the research of the two former sections to the subject of Eugenics proper. Thus scheme is not a novel one, it is precisely that which the Galton Laboratory has for many years endeavoured to carry out, but largely failed to do owing to the lack of adequate funds.'