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of III, 31, and lives in New York State 

 where they own and manage a peach 

 farm. She has one daughter who is 

 now married and has a bright son. 



John K. (II, 12) came to New York 

 State with his parents from Pennsyl- 

 vania on horseback. He has been dead 

 several years; is reported to have been 

 bright; was married and had children 

 some of whom married into very good 

 families : 



Mary K. (Ill, 38) married a physi- 

 cian and lived in the west; they had a 

 son who is now a physician and who 

 married a normal woman who was a 

 nurse in a hospital. 



Martha K. (Ill, 40) married Mr. S.; 

 had two daughters, one of whom mar- 

 ried a leading florist, and the other 

 married a former attorney general of 

 New York. 



Another daughter (III, 42) of John 

 K. married a lawyer. 



Another daughter (III, 44) married 



Mr. L. and they have a son who is 

 a physician. 



mother's mother's father 

 K. — ■ (I, 1) a Pennsylvania dutch- 

 man from Reading, came to New York 

 State on horseback, accompanied by 

 his entire family. He was a blacksmith ; 

 died at the age of over 70 of bloody 

 dysentery. 



mother's mother's mother 

 Sarah R. (I, 2) came originally from 

 England; married I, 1 in Pennsylvania; 

 died of cancer at the age of seventy- 

 eight. 



SUMMARY 



In this family we found five of the 

 ten children microcephalics of a pro- 

 nounced type when the father and 

 mother were both of good physical 

 type and mental ability, and the only 

 family factor reflecting degeneracy, so 

 far as we can find out, is alcholism. 



Present Status of the Journal of Heredity 



The Council is much gratified to be 

 able to announce a grant from the 

 National Geographic Society to the 

 American Genetic Association which 

 will make it possible to issue the 

 deferred numbers as rapidly as the 

 printer can handle the material. 



The grant received from the National 

 Geographic Society was in accordance 

 with the following resolution adopted 

 by the Research Committee of that 

 Society on January 20, 1922: 



"The National Geographic Society 

 hereby makes a grant of three thousand 

 dollars to the American Genetic Asso- 

 ciation for the encouragement of re- 

 search in genetics in relation to geog- 

 raphy, the fund to be used for the 

 publication of illustrations that con- 

 stitute a record of the research work 

 of plant and animal breeders." 



This timely act of the National 

 Geographic Society in support of re- 

 search in genetics will insure the regular 

 publication of the Journal. It is earn- 

 estly hoped that by the end of the 

 year the membership can be increased 

 sufficiently to make the Journal self- 



sustaining. All members of the Associ- 

 ation are urged to use their best endeav- 

 ors in adding to the membership. It 

 is believed that with 5000 members in 

 good standing the Journal could be 

 published without other financial assist- 

 ance. This membership increase 

 should be made without delay in order 

 that there shall be no set-back in publi- 

 cation again this year. 



The membership of the American 

 Genetic Association has increased 

 steadily in recent years, but the revenue 

 from membership dues has never been 

 sufficient to pay the entire cost of publi- 

 cation of the Journal, the deficit having 

 been made up each year by a few mem- 

 bers who have contributed generously 

 for this purpose. It was hoped that 

 when the membership should reach its 

 present figure of 3625 the Journal 

 would become self-sustaining, but the 

 continued high cost of printing re- 

 sulted in such a serious deficit in the 

 latter part of 1921 that it was impossible 

 to continue the issue of monthly num- 

 bers as they became due. 



