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Final Report of the Committee on Scientific Problems of Human Migration Report and Circular Series of the National Research Council (1929) / Chapter Skim
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Summary of Investigations
Pages 15-16

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... Such studies were under way in Nashville, Tennessee, and it, therefore, seemed advisable to assist in their further development and also to provide in this way for try-outs with test techniques to be developed by the psychological projects outlined in the preceding pages. Finally, it was considered that in the study of physical inheritance, as a check upon the results from vital statistics and mental measurements, an intensive study of qualitative characters was needed, especially experimentation within a number of race stocks and such mixed strains as were readily accessible.
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... The present status of the subject seems fully to justify this expectation, for the social science and historical sides of migration research have been taken up by the Social Science Research Council in much the same way, and we can now report, that through coordinate activities tines two Councils are maturing two major research programs, one for the intensive analysis of populations and the other for an exhaustive study of areas of settlement, or " Pioneer Belts." In either case, the experience and technique resulting from the initial investigations of this Committee will constitute a distinct asset, and the community of interests initially enlisted promises to become more and more productive under new auspices.
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