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EUGENICS SURVEY OF VERMONT UNDER AUSPICES OF DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT DIRECTOR. H. F. PERKINS INVESTIGATOR. FRANCES E. CONKLIN SECRETARY. ANNA ROME 138 CHURCH STREET BURLINGTON. VT. TELEPHONE 3299
June 27, 1928
Dr. T. J. Allen, Supt., Vermont State School, Brandon, Vt.
My dear Dr. Allen:

I am writing to ask for your help in trying to locate a successor for Miss Conklin. She has decided to discontinue her work with us in August in order to study at the University of Pennsylvania.

I think that the time has come when we should have a trained mental tester and of course that will make it necessary for us to pay out more money for salary. It seems to me that we have gone about as far as we are justified in going with the sort of general pedigree study that has occupied our attention hitherto. Our results are being examined critically by institutions and organizations that want something more scientifically accurate than our present data. I think we should find a man or woman who has had a good deal of training and that we should demand more rather than less than the minimum amount of training and experience that the job seems to require.

Will you be good enough to think this over and let me know if you have anyone in mind who might be interested in this sort of research work? Of course we should continue the pedigree study rather than specializing on mental testing. Our information will, however, be much more exact and therefore valuable if the mental rating of the individuals can be carefully and accurately ascertained.

Thanking you in advance for any suggestions that you may be able to offer, I remain,

Faithfully and cordially yours, [H. F. Perkins] DIRECTOR HF: ARR

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