The second International Exhibition of Eugenics held September 22 to October 22, 1921, in connection with the Second International Congress of Eugenics in the American Museum of Natural History, New York : an account of the organization of the exhibition, the classification of the exhibits, the list of exhibitors, and a catalog and description of the exhibits / by Harry H. Laughlin.

  • Laughlin, Harry Hamilton, 1880-1943.
Date:
1923
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Credit: The second International Exhibition of Eugenics held September 22 to October 22, 1921, in connection with the Second International Congress of Eugenics in the American Museum of Natural History, New York : an account of the organization of the exhibition, the classification of the exhibits, the list of exhibitors, and a catalog and description of the exhibits / by Harry H. Laughlin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sors of Modern Man, the Neanderthals. The wall space beneath these paintings was used for two special exhibits in anthropology: a chronological chart and a synoptic exhibit for human culture by N. C. Nelson; photo graphs, face casts, and charts presenting the race problem of Hawaii by Louis R. Sullivan. The chronology of the world's culture prepared by Mr. Nelson, Associate Curator of Archaeology in the Museum, is the first serious attempt to present the time-relations for the culture of the world as a whole. The Hawaiian exhibit presented the material just returned from an expedition to Hawaii, where Dr. Louis R. Sullivan, Assistant Curator in the Museum, spent many months under the auspices of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum of Honolulu. The charts and busts in the exhibit were prepared by the Bishop Museum in Hawaii as their special contribution to the Congress. The photographs and mountings were contributed by the American Museum of Natural History. Type photographs and busts were shown for pure Hawaiians, Chinese, Japanese, and Portuguese, accompanied by mixtures of the same. The charts present statistical data on the present population. In this Hall also special permanent exhibits, principally those showing the restoration of anthropoid skulls and heads, were shown temporarily in new positions for the purpose of coordinating and emphasizing geological history of the human species.—Clark Wissler. SECTION TWO Eugenics and Allied Sciences. Special Exhibition. First Floor General Character. The second section, which was shown in the Forestry and Darwin Halls on the first floor, comprised mainly embryological and racial casts and models, photographs, pedigree charts and tables, biological family histories and collective biographies, graphical and historical charts on the character and analysis of population, material showing the principles of heredity in plants, animals and man, maps and analytical tables demon strating racial vicissitudes, anthropometric instruments, apparatus for mental measurements, and books and scientific reprints on eugenical and genetical subjects. Assembling the Exhibits. Exhibits were secured by corresponding with and interviewing persons, in the United States and foreign countries, who were known to be interested in eugenical subjects and to be conducting eugenical researches. It was aimed to make the exhibits relatively few in number but outstanding and specifically illustrating definite principles.