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Carnegie Institution of Washington research station established in Cold Spring Harbor, New York.

Date: 1904

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Beginning in 1904, the Carnegie Institution of Washington (CIW) engages in research in biology on a tract of about 9 acres leased for 50 years from the Wawepex Society in Cold Spring Harbor, New York. The lab will be named the Station for Experimental Evolution (SEE) in 1906, and will lead to the creation of the Eugenics Record Office which holds the many historical records of the sorting and categorizing of many communities genetic traits in the US.