30 



HEREDITY AND DEVELOPMENT OF NAVAL OFFICERS. 



apt to be more cases of hyperkinetic fathers than mothers, since biographers 

 tend to consider the latter less fully than the former. 



Though the evidence of the biographies is, in some cases, not satis- 

 factory, yet the hyperkinesis of the propositus is usually shown in some 

 degree by one of the parents also. 



TABLE 8. Vocations of the grandchildren of naval officers. 



Name. 



Sons' sons. 



Daughters' sons. 



Barney . . . 



Buchanan 



ochrane . 



Dahlgren . 



Duncan . 

 Flinders . 

 Hawkins . 



1, inventor. 



2, commander in Confederate navy. 



1, lieutenant general. 



2, lieutenant colonel in army. 

 1, 



2, professor of biology. 

 1, member of Parliament. 



Howe . 

 Morris 



1, went to sea. 



2, 3, ... 



Paulding 

 Pellew . 



Perry, O. H. 

 Perry, M. C. 



Perry, C. R. 



Preble 



Rodgers, John 



Rodgers,G.W. 



1, United States Military Academy; 

 captain of artillery 



1, in insurance business 



2, farmer 



1, commander, Royal Navy. 2, ... 



3, officer in Madras cavalry. 



4, lieutenant in Royal Navy. 5, major 

 in infantry. 



1, author. 



2, ... 



1, lieutenant United States navy 



2, graduate West Point 



3, physician 



1, commander in navy. 

 1, commander in navy 



2, rear admiral 



3, rear admiral 



1, captain, United States army. 



2, lieutenant United States navy. J 



3, rear admiral. 2 



1, Naval Academy, youngest 

 member of class. 



1, 2, young. 



1, leading British Egyptologist. 



1, 2, ... 



1, lieutenant, United States navy. 



2, ensign, United States navy. 



3, rector. 



1, in naval reserve. 



2, 3, not in navy. 



1, rear admiral. 



2, rear admiral. 



3, 4, bankers. 



5, graduate of U. S. Naval Acad- 

 emy; 2 years in navy. 



1, rear admiral. 



2, naval commander. 



3, naval captain. 



4, soldier. 



1, brigadier general, United States 

 army. 



2, 3, majors. 

 4, engineer. 



1 Also daughter's sons of M. C. Perry. 



2 Also sister's sons of Alexander Mackenzie, naval officer and brother (with change of name) 



of Jane Slidell, who married M. C. Perry, and Julia Slidell, who married C. R. P. 

 Rodgers. 



