INDEX
INDEX
Ability: [118];
calculating, literary, musical, [120].
Able child likely to be neglected, [257].
Achondroplasy, [113].
Acquired characters, inheritance of, [121].
Adami, [164].
Adaptations, establishment of, [140].
Adaptive responses, [201].
Agassiz, [297].
Albinism, in man, [116].
Alcohol: and crime, [279];
and degeneracy, [172], [179];
and germinal tissue, [172];
a poison, [168].
Alcoholism: [101], [117], [167];
factors in, [180];
in lower animals, [173-178];
views regarding inheritance of, [169], [170], [172], [178], [179], [180].
Alkaptonuria, [117].
Allelomorph, [77].
Alpine plants, non-inheritance of acquired characters, [131].
Alternative action in behavior, [207].
Altruism, possible origin of, [220].
Ambystoma, [132].
Ameba, [23], [24].
Ancestors, number of, [4].
Ancestry: a network, [3];
dual, [6];
in royalty, [5];
pride of, as a eugenic agent, [309].
Backward child, [256].
Backwardness, importance of early determination, [256], [257].
Bardeen, [126].
Barker, [229].
Barr, [246], [247], [248].
Barrington, [179].
Bateson, [77], [82].
Bees, inheritance in, [136], [137].
Behavior: lower animals, [197];
modifiability of, [200], [204-207], [217], [219], [224], [225], [337];
not wholly established by heredity, [217], [227];
rational, [205], [206];
various forms of, possible, [207], [219].
Bell, [152].
Bezzola, [170].
Billings, [249].
Binet-Simon test, [255].
Biometry, [16].
Birthmarks, [159], [160].
Birth-rate: significance of, [302];
too low in desirable stocks, [302], [304], [305], [307].
Blastomeres, [55].
Blastophthoria, [163].
Blended inheritance, [87], [92], [93].
Blends, mistakes for, [91].
Blindness, infantile, [183].
Blistering, [113].
Body: how built up from germ, [36];
duality of, [50].
Brachydactylism, [107].
Brain: in higher animals, [213];
mechanism, maladjustments of, [230].
Branthwaite, [180], [292].
Breeding, experiments, method of, [14], [15].
Brewer, [142].
Brieux, [101].
Bronner, [266].
Brown Sequard, [132], [133].
Cabot, [183].
Cacogenic strains, [310].
Cajal, [209].
Cancer, [117], [154].
Capsella, [131].
Castle, [134].
Cataract, presenile, [112].
Cattle: horn characters, [79];
roan, [81].
Cell: a unit of structure, [20];
diagram of, [21];
structure of, [20], [30].
Cell-division: [31];
indirect (mitosis), [32];
meaning of indirect, [34].
Cell-theory, [22].
Cellular basis of heredity, [22].
Ceni, [174].
Centrosome, [31].
Cerebral cortex, not functionally homogeneous, [211].
Character: defined, [12];
dominant, [74];
recessive, [74].
Characters: contrasted, [69];
determiners of, [13], [14];
independence of, [69];
inheritable and non-inheritable, [121], [122];
more than two pairs of, [87];
new combinations of, [82], [83], [84];
separable, [69];
symbols for, [78];
two pairs of, [82].
Chauvin, [132].
Chemotropism, [198].
Childbirths, intervals between, [165].
Children of the future: ours to determine quality of, [338], [339];
and home, [338].
Cholera, [152].
Chorea: [117];
Huntington’s, [113-115], [243], [325].
Chromatin, [31].
Chromosome, [32].
Chromosomes: individuality of, [39], [48];
determiners in, [94];
in germ and body cells, [40];
Mendelian factors and, [93];
number and appearance, [34], [41];
pairs of, [40], [93], [94];
significance of, in heredity, [35], [49], [50], [51], [53], [54].
Chromotropism, [198].
Church, [242].
Cleavage, [36].
Cleft-palate, [178].
Cole, [166].
College graduates and birth-rate, [304].
Coloboma, [113].
Color-blindness, [60-62].
Conceptual thought, origin of, [206].
Conduct: importance to young of practise, [221], [223];
hereditary predisposition and, [218], [337];
responsibility for, [195].
Congenital traits, [123].
Conjugation, [25].
Consciousness, [206].
Conservation: of superior strains, [157];
human, [299], [300].
Constructive eugenics, [309].
Corneal opacity, [113].
Correns, [68].
Cortex of brain, [195], [213].
Cost, of caring for our disordered and delinquent, [257], [300].
Cretins, effects of segregating the sexes, [321].
Crime: and delinquency, [263], [287];
and feeble-mindedness, [264-270];
bearings of immigration on, [280];
classifications of, [276];
defined, [276];
heredity vs. environment in, [263];
increase in, [272];
mental disorders most frequently associated with, [279];
no specific hereditary factor for, [275].
Criminal: the born, [277];
the epileptic, [277].
Criminality, [117].
Criss-cross inheritance, [61].
Criteria for judging reproductive fitness, [304], [306].
Cytoplasm: [30];
in heredity, [51].
Daltonism, [60].
Dana, [257].
Darwin, pedigree of, [316].
Davenport, [92], [116], [231], [243], [257], [271], [273], [284], [291], [304], [312].
Davis, [185].
Deaf-mutism, [152], [153].
Death, natural, [28].
Decline of nations, [290], [300].
Defective delinquent, should prevent procreation of, [335].
Defectives: increase due to breeding, [290], [291];
natural elimination done away with among, [292];
unpardonable to let multiply, [288].
Defects: breeding out, [118], [119];
mental and nervous, [228].
Degenerate strains: [269];
not a product of surroundings, [273].
Degenerates, sterilization of married, [330].
Delinquency, causes of, [267], [274].
Delinquents not all defectives, [274].
Delinquent women and girls, many mentally defective, [265], [266].
Dendrite, [208].
De Sanctis, [256].
Determiners: [13], [77];
different producing the same character, [88], [90];
segregation of, [84].
Development: in higher organisms, [28];
suppressed, [9].
De Vries, [68].
Diabetes, [113].
Difficulty, educational value of, [222], [223].
Digital malformations, [107].
Dihybrids, [82].
Diploid number of chromosomes, [41], [43].
Disease: defined, [146];
inheritance of, [98], [148];
predisposition to, [148];
reappearance of not necessarily inheritance, [146].
Dominance: [74];
delayed, [81];
incomplete, [80], [100];
in human genealogies, [102];
in man, [99], [107].
Don Carlos, number of ancestors, [5].
Drosophila, [66].
Duplex character, [80], [99].
Dwarfing, by starvation, [130].
Dwarfs, true, [117].
East, [91].
Education: actual practise in carrying out projects important, [221];
affording opportunity for development of good traits, [226];
effects of not inherited, [142], [155];
establishing pathways through the nervous system, [210];
importance of difficulty in, [222], [223];
non-transference of skill acquired in one line to other lines, [213];
providing proper stimuli, [226];
training in motive necessary, [220];
value of interest in, [223].
Egg, a cell, [22].
Egg-cell and sperm-cell contrasted, [29].
Elderton, [179], [296].
Electrotropism, [198].
Ellis, [265], [301].
Embryo, relation to mother, [161].
Embryogeny, [36].
Emerick, [251].
Environment: direct action on germ cells, [124], [125];
effects of faulty, [158];
in crime and delinquency, [263], [266], [273], [274].
Epidermolysis, [113].
Epilepsy: [101], [117], [242], [249], [251], [252], [253];
in guinea-pigs, [132];
relation to feeble-mindedness, [249].
Epileptic, the criminal type, [277-279].
Epileptics, number of, [230], [246], [250].
Eugenic agent, educated public sentiment, [330].
Eugenics: and education, [309];
and personal liberty, [332];
a working program of, [335];
constructive, based on education, [301];
defined, [293];
desirable traits, [306];
education of women in, [333];
influence of public opinion on, [331];
much yet to be done, [333], [334];
positive and negative, [301].
Ewart, [10], [165].
Exceptional child likely to be neglected, [257].
Experimental breeding, method of, [15].
External conditions, influences of, [130].
Eye-color: [9], [103];
inheritance of, [104].
Eye-defects, [108], [110].
Family pride and eugenics, [309].
Farabee, [106].
Fay, [153].
Feeble-minded: prevention of procreation in, [258], [335];
results of non-restraint, [246].
Feeble-mindedness: [101], [117];
and crime, [264-269], [279];
grades of, [244];
inheritance of, [245];
not insanity, [238];
relation of alcohol to, [169-172].
Fernald, [256], [266].
Fertilization, [26], [29], [47], [48].
Fetus: poisoning of, [162];
relation to mother, [161].
Fiber-tracts in man, [214].
Fitness, criteria for judging, [304], [306].
Flexner, [186].
Forel, [169], [173], [303].
Fowl, Andalusian, [69], [70], [71].
Frederick the Great, number of ancestors, [5].
Friedreich’s disease, [117].
Fruit-fly, [66].
Galton, [293], [295].
Gamete, [28], [40].
Gametes in dihybrids, [85].
Gametic matings in man, [100].
Geddes, [55].
Genealogies, imperfect, [98].
Genotype, [86].
Geotropism, [198].
Germ and body distinct, [37], [38].
Germ: control of possibilities in, [224];
singleness of, [50].
German emperor, number of ancestors, [5].
Germ-cells: affected by poisons, [126];
changes in, [126], [127];
early set apart, [37];
question of effects of body on, [128], [135];
effects of external influences on, [124];
in Miastor, [37], [38];
metabolic changes in, [138];
origin of, [36], [37];
possibilities of development, [127];
two classes of, [71], [73].
Germinal continuity, [39].
Germinal variation and the origin of new characters: [138];
cases analyzed, [141];
sexual reproduction in relation to, [138].
Germ-plasm and bad environment, [194].
Gifted persons, [212].
Glaucoma, [113].
Goddard, [118], [171], [174], [188], [235], [238], [245], [250], [256], [257], [264], [269], [326].
Gonads, transplantation of, [134].
Gonorrhoea: seriousness of, [182];
prevalence, [183].
Gorst, [234].
Gout, [153], [234].
Guinea-pigs: alcoholism in, [175];
Mendelism in, [75].
Guyer, [59].
Habit, [219].
Habits, modification of in lower animals, [204].
Hair-color, [105].
Hair shape, [105].
Hamburger, [150].
Handwriting, [120].
Haploid number of chromosomes, [41], [43].
Harelip, [178].
Hart, [266], [319], [326].
Healy, [256],
[274], [278].
Hearing, hardness of, [118].
Heart disease, [154].
Hegner, [27], [38].
Heliotropism, [198].
Helm, [109], [111].
Hemophilia, [64].
Hereditary character defined, [12].
Hereditary mingling, mosaic rather than blend, [13].
Hereditary transmission, laws of, [68].
Heredity: and environment, [295];
dual ancestry in, [6];
defined, [1];
false, [163];
human, uncertainty of records, [98];
in protozoa, [22], [23];
in insanity, importance of, [261];
in sexually reproducing forms, [7];
in unicellular forms, [22], [23];
methods of study, [14], [15];
new discoveries in, [67];
not a blend, [13];
race betterment through, [289].
Heritage, blood, [1].
Heron, [307].
Heterozygote: [80];
detection of, [80].
Hill-folk, the, [271].
Hodge, [175].
Holmes, [203].
Home, for children, [338].
Homozygote, [80].
Huntington’s chorea, [113-115], [243], [325].
Huxley, [195], [205].
Hybrids: [52];
whites and negroes, [297], [298].
Hypotrichosis, [113].
Hysteria, [117].
Ichthyosis, [65].
Ideals, importance of establishing in children, [223].
Idiots, [244].
Imbeciles, [244].
Immigrants, duty of excluding undesirable, [335].
Immigration: and mental unsoundness, [281], [282];
bearing on crime and delinquency, [280];
bearing on venereal diseases, [282];
importance of restricting, [283], [335].
Immortality: of protozoa, [23];
of the race, [3].
Immunity, artificial, not inherited, [155].
Inbreeding, in defectives, [271].
Individual, and race, [3].
Inebriate women, offspring of, [168].
Inebriety, constitutional, [180].
Infant mortality, [149].
Infection, prenatal, [147].
Inheritance: and disease, [146];
blended, [87], [93];
of tendencies, [107].
Inhibitions, [216].
Inhibitors, [79].
Insane, increase in numbers of, [233], [234].
Insanity: [117];
certain forms recessive, [243];
eugenical significance of, [234], [235], [240];
importance of early diagnosis, [259];
some forms not hereditary, [260];
types of, [239];
prevalence in the United States, [228], [229].
Insect colors, effect of temperature, [129].
Instincts: [203];
adjustable, [203];
not inherited acquirements, [144];
origin of intelligent behavior from, [203], [204].
Institutional figures misleading, [266].
Intelligence, [205], [206].
Intelligent behavior, opening up possibilities of, [204].
Ireland, [171].
Irritability, characteristics of living protoplasm, [197].
Jennings, [203], [204].
Johnson, [305].
Johnstone, [245], [319], [320], [321].
Jolly, [243].
Jordan, [4], [299].
Jukes, [270].
Kallikak family, [269], [270].
Kellicott, [314], [316].
Kellogg, [299].
Keratosis, [113].
Kidney diseases, [154].
Kirby, [187], [324].
Knox, [256].
Kraeplin, [242].
Laitinen, [174].
Language, as mental aid, [206], [207].
Lapsed intelligence, theory of, [145].
Larval stages, susceptibility of, [128].
Laws, sterilization, [323], [327], [329].
Lead-poisoning: [163];
experiments on rabbits, [163].
Lederbaur, [131].
Legal restraint of defectives limited, [331].
Lens: displaced, [113];
cataract, [112].
Leprosy, [152].
Leptinotarsa, production of variations in, [125].
Linden, Countess von, [129].
Linin, [31].
Little’s disease, [215].
Locomotor ataxia, [187].
Loeb, [62], [203].
Longevity, [120].
Lord Morton’s mare, [10].
Lorenz, [113], [114], [115].
Low birth-rate, [308].
Lowell, Judge John, [312].
Luetin test, [188].
Lunborg, [243].
MacDougal, [125].
Margaret, Mother of Criminals, [270].
Marriage: barriers to, [331];
inter-racial, [296];
medical inspection before, [191].
Mast, [203].
Maternal impressions, [159-160].
Maturation: [39], [41], [43], [44];
parallel between egg and sperm-cell, [44], [46].
Mechanical skill, [120].
Mechanism of heredity, [22], [25], [26], [28], [29], [30], [35], [37], [40-54], [94], [95].
Melancholia and crime, [279].
Memory: [120], [204];
not a complete test of normality, [268], [269].
Mendel: [68];
work on peas, [82].
Mendelian factors and chromosomes: [93];
inheritance and man, [97];
principles, rediscovery of, [68];
ratio, cause of, [71].
Mendelism, [67], [69].
Mental and nervous defects, [228].
Mental defective: defined, [255];
disproportionate increase in, [232];
numbers married, [231], [232];
inefficiency of marriage laws concerning, [315].
Mental deficiency: not always inherited, [248];
tests for, [254], [255].
Mental organization of lower vertebrates, [205].
Mental process as neural process, [195].
Mental unsoundness, [196].
Mentality, inheritance of, [19].
Mentally disordered, cost of caring for, [257], [258].
Mercier, [279].
Merriere’s disease, [117].
Metazoa, [28].
Metz, [41].
Mice, [78].
Michigan, state report on mentally defective, [234].
Migraine, [101].
Mind, relation to brain, [195].
Mitosis: [32], [33];
meaning of, [34], [37].
Mjöen, [171].
Modifiability of behavior, [200], [204], [205], [207], [217], [219], [224], [225], [337].
Mongolians, [248].
Moral responsibility, [227].
Morgan, C. Lloyd, [146], [211].
Morgan, T. H., [59], [66].
Moron, [244], [268].
Morons and crime, [268].
Mosaic, heredity a, [13].
Motherhood, safeguarding, [165].
Motive, training in, [220].
Mott, [150].
Mulattoes, [92].
Multiple sclerosis, [64], [117].
Muscular atrophy: [113];
Gower’s, [65].
Musical ability, [120].
Mutations: artificial production of, [125];
germinal, [125].
Mutilations, non-inheritance of, [134].
Myopia, [64].
Naegeli, [131].
Nam family, [271].
Natural selection partly done away with in human society, [292].
Near-sightedness, [64].
Nervous and mental diseases, [153].
Nervous organization, inheritable, [242].
Nervous response, in lower organisms, [196].
Nervous system: mainly inherited, [210], [216];
establishment of pathways in, [210];
maladjustments of, [231];
special developments in man, [213], [214], [215];
units of, [208].
Nervous systems of anthropoids, [214].
Neural pathways, not all established at birth, [217].
Neuritis optica, [65].
Neurons, [208].
Neuron theory, [208].
Neuropathic constitution, expression of, [241].
Neuropathic defects, carriers of, [253].
Neuter insects, heredity in, [136], [137].
New characters, origin of, [138].
Newman, [56].
Nicloux, [172].
Night-blindness, [65].
Nilsson-Ehle, [88], [89].
Noguchi, [186].
Nucleolus, [31].
Nucleus, structure of, [31].
Nulliplex character, [80], [100].
Obesity, [120], [154].
Offspring: from one parent only, [5];
different from either parent, [12].
Oöcyte, primary, secondary, [44].
Oögenesis, [44].
Oögonia, [44].
Optic nerve, atrophy of, [64].
Organs, formation of, [36].
Origin of sex cells, [12], [36].
Ovaries, transplantation of, [134].
Ovum, [26], [40].
Paralysis, general, [186].
Paranoia, [279].
Parent-body and germ distinct, [12].
Parenthood, cultivation of wholesome sentiment toward, [336].
Paresis: [186];
and crime, [279].
Parthenogenesis, [6].
Patterson, [56].
Paul, [163].
Pearson, [150], [151], [179], [296], [307].
Peas, [68], [82].
Performance tests, [256].
Peron, [133].
Personality determined by heredity, [2], [195].
Peterson, [242].
Phenotype, [86].
Phillips, [134], [135].
Phototropism, [198].
Pinard, [165].
Pineys, the, [271].
Plato, [290].
Poellman, [271].
Polar bodies, [44], [45].
Polydactyly, [108].
Potato-beetle, production of variations in, [125].
Potts, [292].
Predisposition to disease, [148].
Pregnancy, neglect of mothers during, [165].
Prenatal care: [336];
infection, [147];
influence, [11], [159], [162].
Prenuptial medical inspection desirable, [336].
Presence and absence theory: [78];
formulæ for man, [99].
Primrose, experiments on, [125].
Principles, Mendelian, [68].
Prisoners, many mentally subnormal, [266].
Pronucleus, [47].
Protective coloration, not of somatic origin, [135], [136].
Protoplasm, germinal, [39].
Psychical development, [196], [203], [205], [206], [213], [215].
Pyramidal tracts, [214].
Quagga hybrid, [10].
Race amalgamation: [297], [298];
deterioration, in a selected population, [303].
Racial degeneracy, not curable by improved environment alone, [294].
Ratio: the 1:2:1, [73];
the 3:1, [77];
the 9:3:3:1, [85];
the 27:9:9:9:3:3:3:1, [87];
the 15:1, [88];
the 63:1, [90].
Rational behavior, [205], [206].
Reason, [206].
Recessiveness: [74];
in man, [115].
Records of family traits desirable, [337].
Reduction division, [41], [42].
Reflexes, [203].
Regression, law of, [17].
Renault, [172].
Rentoul, [232].
Reproduction: asexual, [6], [26];
sexual, [26];
sexual and variation, [139].
Reproductive cells, [27], [28], [29].
Responsibility for conduct, [195].
Rest, importance of, in pregnancy, [165].
Reversion: [7], [8];
and atavism, [8];
in guinea-chicken hybrids, [8].
Rheotropism, [198].
Rheumatism, [154].
Ritter, [143].
Rogers, [246], [272].
Romanes, [133].
Rosanoff, [243].
Rossolimo, [256].
Rudin, [243].
Salpingectomy, [322].
Sanford, [205].
St. Vitus’ dance, [117].
Schulze, [24].
Schuster, [296].
Sclerosis, multiple, [64], [117].
Segregation: in dihybrids, [84];
Mendelian, [69], [70], [75];
of defectives, [318].
Seguin, [256].
Self-control, importance of, [221], [267], [268], [284], [286], [287].
Sex: and chromosomes, [59];
and heredity, [53];
cells of Volvox, [25];
chromosome, [57], [58];
determination, [55];
differentiation and X-element, [60];
evolution of, [25-30];
hygiene, question of school instruction in, [285];
in certain insects, [56];
linked characters, [60], [65];
not a necessary factor in heredity, [6];
problem, knowledge alone not sufficient, [286].
Sexual vice, [284].
Sharp, [322].
Simplex character, [80], [99].
Skill, non-transference in brain, [212], [213].
Skin, color of, [92].
Smallpox, [152].
Social maladies, prevention of, [293].
Softening of the brain, [186].
Soma, [28].
Spermatid, [43].
Spermatocyte, primary, secondary, [43].
Spermatogenesis, [42].
Spermatogonium, [43].
Spermatazoon: [26], [40];
a cell, [22];
formation of, [43];
structure of, [43].
Spindle, in cell-division, [32].
Spottedness of hair-coat, [113].
Sprague, [281], [305].
Starfish, training a, [204].
Statistical methods, [15].
Statistics, trustworthy needed, [334].
Stature, inheritance of, [17].
Stereotropism, [198].
Sterility, [182].
Sterilization: [322];
in epilepsy, [326];
laws, [323];
laws, on trial, [329];
laws, states having, [327].
Stevens, [41].
Stockard, [174-178].
Strength, muscular, [120].
Stripes, reversionary, [8].
Stutzman, [305].
Sullivan, [168].
Superior strains, conservation of, [157].
Synapse, [210].
Synapsis, [41], [42].
Syndactyly, [65], [108], [111].
Syphilis: [184-190];
and prostitutes, [185];
cerebro-spinal form, [189-190];
prenuptial inspection for, [190-192];
prevalence, [186];
stages of, [185];
tests for, [188].
Syphilitics: children of, [187], [188];
married, [190].
Tabes dorsalis, [186].
Taints, [101].
Talent, inheritance of, [212].
Taylor, [297].
Telegony, alleged cases of, [10].
Temperament, inheritance of, [19].
Thermotropism, [198].
Thigmotropism, [198].
Third generation, segregation in, [69].
Thomsen’s disease, [118].
Thomson, [55].
Thorndike, [296].
Tower, [125].
Training of children: and heredity, [218];
faults in, [221], [222].
Transmission, not necessarily inheritance, [163].
Tredgold, [170].
Treponema pallidum, [185].
Tribe of Ishmael, [271].
Tropic responses: often purposeful, [201];
uncertainties in, [202].
Tropisms: [197];
complications in, [200];
in plants and animals, [198];
relations to reflex actions and instincts, [203].
Tschermak, [68].
Tuberculosis, [118], [148-160], [162].
Twins: identical, [55];
sex of, [55].
Typhoid, [152].
Unemployed, frequently morons, [280].
Unfit, elimination of, urgent, [313].
Unit-character: [12];
inheritance of, [13].
Unicellular organisms: [21];
inheritance in, [22], [23].
Use and disuse, [122].
Van Ingen, [167].
Vasectomy, [322].
Venereal disease, [182].
Virchow, [147].
Voison, [133].
Volitions as tropisms, [199].
Volvox, [25], [26], [27].
War, eugenical effects of, [299].
Wasserman, provocative, [189].
Wasserman test, [188], [189].
Webbed digits, [65].
Weeks, [251], [252], [253], [291].
West, [167].
Wheat, [75], [81], [88].
Whetham, [314], [316].
Whitman, [145].
Wilmarth, [243], [245], [274], [291].
Wilson, [59], [62], [94], [95].
Woods, [296].
X-element, [57], [58].
Zebra hybrids, [10].
Zeros, the, [271].
Zygote: [26], [27];
chromosomes of, [40].
Footnotes:
[1] The reader desiring more detailed information will find fuller discussions in the following:
Wilson, E. B.: Recent Researches on the Determination and Heredity of Sex. Science, January 8, 1909.
Wilson, E. B.: The Chromosomes in Relation to the Determination of Sex. Science Progress, April, 1910.
Guyer, M. F.: Recent Progress in Some Lines of Cytology. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society, April, 1911.
Morgan, T. H.: Heredity and Sex. Columbia University Press, 1913.
[2] A translation of Mendel’s original papers will be found in Mendel’s Principles of Heredity, by W. Bateson.
[3] Heredity of Skin Color in Negro and White Crosses: Publication No. 188, of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.
[4] Whitman, C. O.: Animal Behavior, Biological Lectures, Marine Biological Laboratory, 1898.
[5] The Fight Against Tuberculosis and the Death Rate from Phthisis, London, Dulau & Co., 1911.
[6] Forel, August: The Sexual Question, p. 268.
[7] Loc. cit. p. 251.
[8] In this connection it is instructive to note from a Michigan state report, just off the press, that, among 4,917 insane individuals concerning whom satisfactory information was obtained, 65.4 per cent. “had among their ancestors or family such hereditary influences as insanity, apoplexy or paralysis, psychopathic abnormalities or alcoholism.” See Report of the Commission to Investigate the Extent of Feeble-mindedness, Epilepsy, Insanity and Other Conditions of Mental Defectiveness in Michigan. Wynkoop Hollenbeck Crawford Co., State Printers, Lansing, Michigan, 1915.
[9] Feeble-mindedness; Its Causes and Consequences, by Henry H. Goddard, The Macmillan Company, 1914.
[10] The Binet-Simon Measuring Scale for Intelligence, by Henry H. Goddard, 1911. The Training School, Vineland, N. J. Price 15 cents.
[11] “Tests for Mental Defects,” by Howard A. Knox, Journal of Heredity, March, 1914. See also Knox: Journal of the American Medical Association, 1914.
[12] The Individual Delinquent, by William Healy, M. D. Little, Brown & Co., Boston.
[13] The Individual Delinquent, by William Healy, M. D. Little, Brown & Co., Boston.
[14] The Psycopathic Laboratory in connection with the Juvenile Court of Chicago.
[15] See “The Foreign Born in the United States.” The National Geographic Magazine, September, 1914.
[16] See First Report of the Committee of the Eugenic Section of the American Breeders’ Association, “On Immigration”, American Breeders’ Magazine, Vol. III, No. 4, 1912. Also Second Report of same, The Journal of Heredity, July, 1914.
[17] “The Negro and His Health Problems,” Medical Record, September 12, 1912.
[18] See D. S. Jordan, The Human Harvest, or V. L. Kellogg, Eugenics and Militarism.
[19] For arguments indicating the superior eugenical fitness of college graduates see “Wellesley’s Birth-Rate,” by Roswell H. Johnson and Bertha Stutzman, The Journal of Heredity, June, 1915. See also, “Education and Race Suicide,” by Robert J. Sprague, ibid., April, 1915.
[20] Since the present manuscript went to press an excellent government report (Insane and Feeble-Minded in Institutions in 1910, Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, 1914, Washington, D. C.) has appeared. In it one finds the estimate that not over one-tenth of our feeble-minded are being cared for in special institutions.
[21] For summaries of existing sterilization laws and statements of the issues involved see (1) The Legal, Legislative, and Administrative Aspects of Sterilisation, Bulletin 10B, February 3, 1914, Eugenics Record Office, Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y.; (2) Sterilisation of Criminals, Report of Committee H of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology, Bulletin No. XV, September, 1914.