326 A Second BracJii/dactt/lons Famllji 



uiial>le to learn even the sex of three of them marked ??? as tlioy died young. 

 1 had hoped to U)ok up the Enghsh branch of this family, but am glad to know 

 you have found it. You will have plea.-^ure in tlie comparative study...." 



Now, as the name Benjamin Hyde is a vi^y i-arc cinnbinjition, tliei'e 

 can be little doubt that Farabee's family and this .second English family 

 are blood relations and belong to the .same stock; the only difficulty 

 with regard to it is the fact that in tiie English there is one generation 

 more than in the American family. This may be owing to thi' fact that 

 it is eleven years .since the American chart was constructed, and also 

 because maniage may not have occuiued at such an early age over there 

 as in this country, for in the English family many of the women have 

 married whilst still "in their teens." 



Moreover the relative proportion of abnormal males and females is 

 exactly the same in these two families, viz. 61 per cent, of women in 

 the American family and 61 per cent, in the English family. This may 

 be a mere coincidence, but nevertheless it seems rather remarkable, and 

 differs from the proportions found in my first family, where there were 

 19 females to 25 males. 



Ficr. 2 shows Farabee's chart, of the American family, and Fig. 3 the 

 English family. 



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Fig. 2. Farabee's Chart. 



It will be observed that the second generation in the English family 

 is incomplete compared with the second generation in Farabee's chart, 

 but there is no real discrepancy. It was Benjamin Hyde's sister, who 

 removed from America and settled in this country, who became the 

 ancestor of the English branch. My informants know that her maiden 

 name was Hyde, that she had a brother named Benjamin Hyde, and 

 that their mother had several other children, but do not know their type 

 or sex. As the rest of the family remained in America and lived in 



