Massachusetts and Indiana have perhaps some of the best central organizations for keeping in a central place records of all sorts of inadequates who come under the care of the state or in a municipality in the state. For one thing, a central eugenics survey, if it is to be permanent, could well prepare a brief case history card to be prepared in duplicate by all of the state and municipal institutions. The institution could keep one copy and could file the second with the central survey.

The establishment of psychiatric clinics is a good thing, but it is not the principal object of a eugenics survey. A eugenics survey needs to locate, first, the inadequates in the state; second, to find out, if possible, why they exist. A preliminary classification could well be made on the following basis: Race descent of the four grandparents (or any other good reference that will give racial position); the place or habitat of the individual inadequate; the sort of land he lives on; the sort of communities in which he resides; how he takes part in social community activities; his occupation, his schooling and training, his pedigree or family history. This latter, of course, is very important from the eugenics point of view. The survey should also describe, in short case histories, the individual inadequates as well as their nearest blood kin.

Not only should one look for mental defect and mental and nervous disorders but, also, for social and physical weaknesses. A good clue for this in Vermont is, of course, the statistical accounting of different specific types of degeneracy found in Vermont and reported in Davenport's “Defects of Drafted Men," a copy of which you, of course, have. In getting at the inadequates in a state, the state and county institutions would doubtless collaborate without much difficulty. The second source of collaboration reasonably expected is the public school system. In the lower grades, particularly, surveys conducted coordinately with the teachers, would yield many clues. These would be followed up. The third source of aid is in state charities and community organizations, such as women's clubs and the like. Some of these will perhaps be antagonistic, but many of them will be very cooperative.

Finally, the first‐hand survey which checks up many clues and contacts must be a field survey in which the field worker goes directly to the home of the family being studied.

Vermont represents great contrasts in human habitats ‐‐ fertile fields with prosperous community life on the one hand, and sterile and isolated mountain regions on the other. A series of topographic maps (published by the Department of the Interior, Washington, D. C.) would make a good basis for indicating the location of inadequates which may be found in different sections of the state. This, of course, is only one phase of the study, but it would constitute a valuable one.

Among the papers which we sent you the other day, is a copy of the “Hill Folk" which I believe you will find one of the most satisfactory guides for the study which you have in hand.