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- Founded in 1903 by agricultural scientists
- members included commercial breeders, professors at agricultural colleges, and researchers at the US Department of Agriculture
- Section on Eugenics founded in 1906 in order to promote a better selection of marriage mates and the control of the reproduction of the defective classes. It had a two fold responsibility:
- Eugenics Records Office work
- Committee work
- This area consisted of five sub-committees that were based on certain eugenic ideas including feeble-mindedness, insanity, epilepsy, criminality, and deafmutism
- These committees were to serve as local centers for collection of data and education and were to exist in connection with universities and other intellectual centers
- See the American Breeders' Association Self-Description here
