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i Memo to Mr. Nichols from WM. A. Jones ; January 9, 1950 was birth in Hoboken, N.J., 44 years before; a Harvard degree the proper number of years later; a well-selling btology textbook for high school students. But classes did not fill his life. His real passton was insect taxonomy--the naming, describing and classifying of insects. - "In pursuing this study, he wandered far from Indiana. He climbed mountains in Mexico, descended valleys in Central America. One day, in the middle of all this, he asked himself a question which had been slowly forming tn his minds Why am I chasing all over the hemisphere studying individual variation in insects, when a far more interesting and important subject is right at my doorstep at homes tndividuel variation in sexual behavior in the human being?* oe "Apparently there was no adequate answer to this, for _ Kinsey returned to Indiana and promptly began taking the -sez histories of the University's students. That was July, 1938. "As might be expected, the campus began to buzz over the strange doings at Doc Kinsey's. The gosstp came to the ears of the University's president, who promptly called Kinsey to his office. One session with that clear-headed, fact- hungry scientist convinced the president. He sent Kinsey off with a pat on the back. And he told him the University would defend his right to do objective research that was obviously going to be of benefit to mankind, "Today, on the rustic campus of a Midwest untversity, a soft-spoken, keen-eyed man is quttely at work--producing a social atom bomb. "Behind him ts a large grant from the Rockefeller Foundatton. "His task, like the conquest of the atom, holds large promise for humanity. For in half a million years of mankind's history, tt ts to be the first adequate, large-scale inquiry into man's sez life. "This pioneer investigator ts Alfred C. Kinsey, pro~ fessor of zoology and btology at Indiana Untversity. For the past nine years he and his assoctates, Wardell 8B. Pomeroy and Clyde E. Martin, have been trudging up and down and across these United States taking the "sex histories® of their fellow Americans. . They expect to continue this activity for at least twenty years more. "Yolume One, however, will be largely concerned with the findings on the white males. Kinsey is not including Negroes tn this volume because he does not believe he has yet obtained an accurate cross-section of the soctal levels of the Negro people. -2- ween mney eee aE TLE TE SE ARR RR MD TTR SEE eT NAT ED “ENTE HT SRE ORE RT SI re eg RO Rie ne ne rm wean mm TET ne