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PLAN FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT UNDER THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.

To establish under the Smithsonian Institution in the City of Washington, a Fund to be known as the Physical Anthropological Fund with requisite laboratory facilities, the general purpose of which shall be a comprehensive biological study of the many and diversified racial elements of the American nation, and the application of the results to promoting the welfare of the nation.
Among the particular lines of work which should be pursued are the following:
1. A determination of the character and potentiality of the physical, intellectual and social elements which the nation should control, direct, and assimilate.
2. A determination of the results of the intermingling of the white, black, and other races, on physical development, longevity, fecundity, vigor, and liability to disease, as well as on the intellectual and social attributes, and an elucidation of the operation of heredity and the effects of changing social and climatic conditions, so that a firm base of knowledge may be provided for those who are to frame and administer laws relating to these objects, and those who are to direct the policy of the thousands of institutions that deal directly or indirectly with the physical and intellectual and social welfare of the nation.