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THE WALTZING RABBIT 



Frontispiece. One of VValtzcr's ancestors was used in experiments to determine 

 whether lead poisoning injures the germ plasm. Another was used in similar experi- 

 ments in which alcohol was the, toxic agent. Have these poisons permanently injured 

 the germ plasm of this family of rabbits, causing the defective nervous system that 

 characterizes Waltzcr and some of his relatives, or has the inbreeding that has been 

 practiced brought to light a latent defect of the germ plasm, as inbreeding often does? 

 This is a question of very real importance to us as well as to the rabbits. If the lead 

 used in many industries and the alcohol consumed by the opponents of the Eighteenth 

 Amendment result in permanent injury to the race, it is something that every patriotic 

 citizen, interested in the future of the nation, needs to know. 



