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UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY 205 SOUTH PROSPECT STREET BURLINGTON, VERMONT
February 9, 1923
Dr. C. B. Davenport Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island
My dear Dr. Davenport:

I am writing in regard to the work of three advanced students in Heredity. Each one is planning to do independent work on some problem and I should like very much to have your opinion on the wisdom of the selections that they and I, in consultation, have made. I should also be very greatly obliged to you for suggestions of additional topics suitable for a half year study, giving students a three hour credit. The topics are as follows:

1. Body Form Inheritance 2. Eye Color Inheritance 3. Color Blindness in a Family Known to Contain Many Cases 4. Laws and Customs Relating to Inter‐racial Marriages 5. Mendelian Study of Inter‐racial Marriages as Concerned with (a) Physical Character, (b) Mental Character (c) Moral Character 6. Study of Cases on Record at local Orphanages to Determine Effects of Heredity and Environment in Careers of Selected Individuals.

The Body Form topic is suggested by a student who knows well several members of a family in which extreme fleshiness is the rule. The Eye Color problem was proposed by a girl in whose own family exceedingly dark eyes have been appearing at intervals for several generations. I doubt whether she will be able to go far with this problem. The Inter‐racial Marriage problem is, of course, a purely library alcove proposition.

I shall be immensely obliged to you for turning this over to someone who can make a few suggestions looking toward a more useful set of topics for another year. There are likely to be two or three who want to go on with the second course after taking and passing with a high grade my lecture course in Heredity. If the students who have picked the above problems have made an unwise choice, according to your judgment or that of any of your assistants to whom you may refer this letter, the sooner a change is made the better.

With sincere and hearty personal regards,Faithfully yours, [H. F. Perkins]

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