Dr. E. Carlton MacDowell and associates at the Carnegie Institute of Washington, Department of Genetics studying hereditary pattern of leukemia. The Carnegie Institution for Science (CIS), also called the Carnegie Institution of Washington (CIW), is an organization established to support scientific research. In 1920 the Eugenics Record Office, founded by Charles Davenport in 1910 in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, was merged with the Station for Experimental Evolution to become the Carnegie Institution's Department of Genetics. The Institution funded that laboratory until 1939. The Carnegie Institution ceased its support of eugenics research and closed the department in 1944. No photographer credited, dated 1935.