The Journal of Heredity 



UNLIKE WHEN BABIES, AND HAVE REMAINED SO 



Figure 11. A letter from one of these twins appears on pages 319-20. They have lived 

 together all their lives, but this has not made them grow an^' more alike. In fact they 

 report that they do not have even a family resemblance now. 



to have the young- ladies write their 

 school compositions in separate rooms 

 and without mutual discussion. Never- 

 theless, the teachers constantly accused 

 them of copying each other's material. 

 On one occasion they were to write 

 four themes on given subiects and 

 then each was to choose a fifth theme 

 .lor herself. Both the twins and their 

 mother related that they tried to keep 

 their fifth subject secret from the 

 other twin anrl their mother put them 

 in separate rooms to write. They 

 were themselves considerably aston- 

 ished to find on comj^aring their work 

 that one had written on "A Summer 

 Shower" and the other on "An April 

 Shower." The mother very sensiblv 

 laid this to similarity of environment, 

 habit anrl physical organization, wdiich 



to the writer's mind explains Sir 

 Oliver's telepathy insofar as it may be 

 proved by twins. 



The two following letters are of 

 great interest since they bear upon 

 the hereditary-environment problem. 

 One pair of dissimilar twins was 

 reared together and the other pair, 

 !-:imilar twins, was reared apart. I 

 leave these persons, evidently of good 

 sense and education, to tell their own 

 experiences. 



Mrs. Frank Prenschoff. of Peters- 

 burg. Alaska, describing herself and 

 her identical twin, who lives in Sas- 

 katchewan. Canada, writes : 



We are sirl twins, at^e twenty-five years, 

 both married. I live in Alaska, while my 

 sister lives in Saskatchewan, Canada. Un- 

 like most twins who are always together, 

 and who dress and talk the same, fate 



