"The APS library fellowship was particularly valuable for two reasons. First, as a busy employed physician coming to study the history of medicine late in my career, I needed the protected, uninterrupted research time away from my practice obligations that the fellowship afforded. Second, I found the APS collection of the papers of the major human geneticists of the 20th century ideal for providing exactly the material I needed to supplement and enhance what I had found in Minnesota."  Neal Holtan's project, Eugenics, Human Genetics, and Public Health Genetics in Mid-Twentieth Century Minnesota,  is the subject of his Ph.D. dissertation in the University of Minnesota's Program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine.  The dissertation will describe the Minnesota Eugenics Society (1926-1938), the Dight Institute for Human Genetics at the University of Minnesota (1941-1986), the Minnesota Human Genetics League (1945-1993), and the Human Genetics Unit at the Minnesota Department of Health (1959-present), the first genetics unit in a state health department in the United States. (Library Fellowship)