182 MEiMOIRS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



Table I. — Recurrence of surnames among i;,106 pupils admitted between the years 1817 and 1877. 

 American Asylum for tlio education of ileaf-mutes, Hartford, Coun. 



Names occurring 25 times : Smith. 



Names occurring 20 times: Allen. 



Names occurring 17 times : ]5rowu. 



Names occurring 13 times : Campbell, Davis. 



Names occurring 12 times : White. 



Names occurring 11 times: Clarke, Johnson, Lovejoy. 



Names occurring 10 times : Small. 



Names occurring 9 times: Fuller, Green, West, Williams, Wood. 



Names occurring 8 times: Bailey, Bartlett, Perkins, Richardson, Rogers, Wright. 



Names occurring 7 times: Derby, Jaclc, Marsh, Martin, Merrill, Tliomas. 



Names occurring 6 times: Berry, Butler, Ha wley, Marshall, Mayhew, Morse, O'Brien, Rowe, Rus- 

 sell, Stevens, Swett, Taylor, Tripp. 



Names occurring .'J times: Andrews, Ball, Barnard, Blizzard, Chapman, Cook, Curtis, Denuison, 



Fisk, French, Holmes, Howe, Jackson, Kimball, Meacham, New- 

 combe, Packer, Parker, Pease, Porter, Reed, Slocum, Sullivan, Til- 

 tou, Webster, Wilson, Young. 



Names occurring 4 times: Baker, Bennett, Bigelow, Bishop, Burbee, Chandler, Ellis, Emerson, 



Fahy, Fisher, Foster, Gilbert, Hammond, Hill, Holt, Hulett, Hull, 

 Jellisou, Jones, Kendall, Kennedy, Ladd, Luce, Marr, Mayberry, 

 Miller, Morgan, O'Neill, Page, Parsons, Prior, Quinu, Robbins, 

 Ryan, Scovell, Stone, Strong, Stuart, Tliompson, Turner, Wake 

 field, Ward, Welch, Wells, Wis we 11. 



Names occurring :^ times: Abbott, Acheson, AUard, Atkins, Badger, Baldwin, Barnes, Barrett, 



Blakely, Blis.s, Boardwin, Briggs, Bruce, Burnham, Cantlon, Car- 

 . penter. Carter, Clo.ssen, C'lough, Cobb, Cummins, Daniels, Deiini.sou, 

 Drown, Dudley, Edwards, Fish, Frank, Goodrich, Gray, Haley, 

 Haskell, Holden, Hunter, Ingraham, Jordan, Lart'erty, Lambert, 

 Larabee, Livingston, Lombard, Lyman, Macomber, Mahoney, Mann, 

 McCarty, Mitchell, Moore, Morri.son, Mowry, Murphy, Nelson, New- 

 ton, Noyes, Osgood, Palmer, Perry, Piatt, Pi-att, Prescott, Randall, 

 Reynolds, Robertson, Sage, Sawyer, Sherman, Sloane, Stebbins, 

 • Stevenson, Taft, Titcombe, Town, Trask, Wardnian, Watson, 



Wentworth, Wheeler, Whitcomb, Wilkins, Winslow, Woodward. 



Names occurring 9 times : These are too numerous to be (jiioted here. There are two hundred and 



fourteen of them. 



The following tables show that the pupils referred to above eoiistitute more than 63 per cent, 

 of the total unniber of pupils admitted: 



Table II. — Recurrence of surnames among the pupils of the American Asylum for (Icafmufcs, Hart- 

 ford, Conn. (1877 Report.) 



No. of pupils 

 represented. 



7ti4 names occur 1 time 764 



214 names occur 2 times 428 



81 names occur 3 times 243 



45 names occur 4 times 180 



27 names occur 5 times 135 



13 names occur 6 times 78 



6 names occur 7 times 42 



6 names occur 8 limes 48 



5 names occur 9 times 45 



1 name occurs 10 times 10 



3 names occur 11 times 33 



1 name occurs 12 times 12 



2 names occur 13 times 26 



1 name occnrs 17 times 17 



1 name occurs 20 times 20 



1 name occurs 25 times 25 



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