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locally well-known violinist and com- 

 poser. The child has great interest in 

 medicine. 



No. 8, Score 148. Ordinary parents 

 of common school education. Mother 

 somewhat above the average. Distant 

 relatives in high church positions. 

 Dull brother. 



No. 9, 10, Score 131, 137. Father a 

 barber. Mother a tailoress. No re- 

 latives of more than common school 

 education or superior intelligence. 



No. 11, Score 167. Father an able 

 minister. Mother of superior intellec- 

 tual and personal qualities. 



No. 12, Score 159, 158. Father a 

 minister of exceptional ability. 



No. 14. No record. 



No. 15. No record. 



No. 16, Score 139. Nothing given 

 about parents but she has a brother 

 and a sister of marked superior ability. 

 Both are university graduates at 20 

 and 21 years of age. The sister has 

 done post-graduate work and the 

 brother holds a responsible position. 



No. 17, Score 140. Father a college 

 professor. Several relatives of superior 

 ability on both sides. 



No. 18, Score 151. Great grand- 

 father was a chum of Abraham Lincoln 

 and a candidate for Senator when he 

 died at 35. A brother of this man was 

 a noted attorney. The father is an 

 attorney; the mother a former high 

 school teacher. Uncles of the mother 

 were political leaders in the early his- 

 tory of Kentucky. 



No. 19, Score 142. Father a car- 

 penter of common school education. 

 Mother, a former teacher. There are 

 seven superior children in the family. 



No. 20, Score 172. Father a physi- 

 cian. Mother common school educa- 

 tion. Several superior relatives and a 

 bright brother. 



No. 21, 22, Score 140, 151. Italian 

 children. Parents well educated. Three 

 of grandparents exceptionally bright 

 and well read : one a scientist and 

 linguist, another a talented singer. 

 Relatives of culture and learning on 

 both sides. 



No. 23. No record. 



No. 24, Score 141. One grandfather 

 a banker; the other a railway official; 

 both intelligent and educated. Both 

 grandmothers well educated and keen. 

 James McNeill Whistler, artist, is a 

 cousin of one grandfather. On the 

 father's side there is an uncle who is a 

 sculptor and painter. Several bright 

 cousins and relatives. The child has 

 talent in art. 



No. 25, 26, Score 141, 148. Several 

 relatives of very superior ability. 



No. 27, Score 147. Father a mining 

 engineer. Mother a teacher. Grand- 

 father a teacher of superior ability. 

 Uncle is a doctor of divinity and a 

 bright scholar. One cousin of excep- 

 tional ability in mechanical engineer- 

 ing; another is one of the best 

 mathematicians Harvard has had for 

 years. Relatives farther back on his 

 father's side are Roger Williams and 

 Colonel Crawford. 



No. 28, Score 137. Father a college 

 professor. 



No. 29, Score 144. Two uncles on 

 his mother's side of exceptional in- 

 telligence. Great great uncle was a 

 doctor of divinity and one of the fore- 

 most pulpit orators of his day. There 

 are two bright brothers. 



No. 30. No record. 



No. 31, Score 141. Father a minis- 

 ter. Maternal grandfather an army 

 officer and graduate of Oxford. Mater- 

 nal grandmother of musical ability. 

 Of eight uncles on this side two were 

 able lawyers and three were successful 

 engineers. Great grandfather was a 

 prominent Canadian statesman. Pa- 

 ternal grandfather, a college graduate. 

 Paternal grandmother, musical. Only 

 uncle on this side is an expert chemist 

 whose sons show unusual literary 

 ability. Great grandfather was one of 

 the leading spirits in the old Hudson 

 Bay Co. 



No. 32, Score 174. Father a jeweler. 

 Mother a milliner. Both have a com- 

 mon school education only. No su- 

 perior relatives except three remarkable 

 brothers and sisters. 



No. 33, Score 150. Both parents are 

 physicians. Mother's relatives chiefly 

 doctors, lawyers, and ministers. Ma- 



