Following the donation of $10 million in bonds, and a framework within which to work, on January 29, 1902 the Carnegie Institution in Washinton D.C was established, privately-funded scientific research organization. [1, 2, 5] It would go on to be called the Carnegie Institute for Science. [3]
The broad purpose to “encourage investigation, research and discovery; encourage the application of knowledge to the improvement of mankind;” The staff were to be paid through “salaried fellowships or scholarships, or through salaries with or without pensions in old age…”
Then on June 11, 1904 the Station for Experimental Evolution (SEE) was opened in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, to study heredity and evolution through breeding experiments with plants and animals – aka Eugenics. [4]