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Charles B. Davenport requests funding from Carnegie to study "race change."

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Charles B. Davenport, a Professor of Zoology at the University of Chicago, approaches the Carnegie Institution with a request for $45,000 to create a “Biological Experiment Station for the study of evolution” at the Cold Spring Harbor campus.

His aim is the “analytic and experimental study of the causes of specific differentiation—of race change or selective breeding that can change racial categories” (Farber, 2008). He proposes to accomplish this “by the cross breeding of animals and plants to find the laws of commingling of qualities... the study of the laws and limits of inheritance."