144 



The Journal of Heredity 



PAPERS CITED 



1. Darwin, C. 1S59 Origin ot Si)>jciL's. 



1:13, 1868, The 

 Variation of Ani- 

 mals and Plants 

 under Domesti- 

 cation. 11:95, 

 396. 



2. Przibram, H. 1907 Arch. f. Entwni. 



25:360. 



3. Whiting, P. \V. Unpublished data. 



4. Doncaster, L. 1904 Proc. Camb. Phil. 



Soc. 13: 35. 



5. Bateson, W. 1913 Mendel's Princi- 



pals of Heredity 

 p. 114. 



6. Doncaster, L. 190-1 loc. cit. 



7. Little, C. C. 1912 "Sci. \. S. 35:784- 



785. 



8. Doncaster. L. 1913 



9. Whiting, P. W. 1915 



10 Ibsen, H. L. 1916 



11. Cutler, D. W. and 



Doncaster, L. 1915 



12. Riddle, O. 1916 



13. Goldschmidt, R. 1916 



14. Darwin, C. 1868 



15. Pocock, R. I. 1911 



16. Doncaster, L. 1904 



Jour. Gen. 3:11-23 

 Amer. Xat. 49: 



518-520. 

 Genetics 1:377-386 



Jour. Gen. 5:65- 



72. 

 Anicr. Xat. 50: 



385-400. 

 Amcr. Xat. 50: 



705-718. 

 The X'ariation of 



Animals and 



Plants under 



Domestication 



11:73. 

 Mendel Journal. 



luc. cit. 



French Stocks in Canada 



In the November issue of the Journal 

 OF Heredity, I find a lenj^thy quotation 

 from the work recently published by the 

 Scribner's, at New York: Mankind — 

 Racial \'ahies and Racial Prospects, 

 by Seth K. Humjjhrey, "a Boston 

 business man and author, but a serious 

 student of bioloj^y." 



S'jieaking of Canada. Mr. IIum])hrey 

 has written the following: 



"The cloud on her racial horizon is 

 her k'}:acy of orij^inal French stocks, 

 which ])er?-:ist in remaining at a }=;enetic 

 and cultural le\'el below that of the 

 dominant Fnj^lish-speaking ])o])ulation. 

 They may fill a worthy place in Canada's 

 economic scheme, but they do not 

 furnish their proportion to the essential 

 ability of Canada's i:)eople, and to that 

 extent are a hindrance to her racial 

 future." 



Mr. Humphrey seems to ij^more that: 



As re<;ards the "j^enetic level." the 

 French Canadians — who. U]) to the 

 latest period, have doubled their niuii- 

 bers every twenty-five or thirty years (a 

 phenomenon almost unique in history) — 

 are the descendants of ])erhaps the best 

 choice of colonists that ever peopled a 

 colony. As may easily be ascertained 

 from history, it was not left to any one 

 indiscriminately to come to New France. 

 The authorities, on the contrary, were 

 careful to favor the introduction of none 

 but i)ersons most commendable by their 

 moral and their relij^ious spirit, and 

 who. as a fact, oritrinaU'd from the best 

 yirovinces of France. It i •> n-) kss 



remarkable that, either owinj^ to the 

 fact that there always existed in the 

 colony a considerable proportion of 

 highly cultivated ecclesiastics, fvmc- 

 tionaries and military officers, or because 

 a great many of the settlers came from 

 the region of Paris, the pure F'rench 

 idiom, and not any of the patois then 

 spoken, and spoken even at the present 

 day, in different parts of France, was 

 established and maintained in New 

 France, now the Province of Quebec. 



As for the "cultural level." the 

 French Canadians possess two great 

 French Universities, and twenty classical 

 colleges, where the Greek, Latin, English 

 and French language and literature are 

 thoroughly taught. In the average 

 attendance of pupils in schools of every 

 nature and grade, the French Pro\-ince 

 of Quebec, during the i)eriod 1901 1915, 

 has sur])assed, in a notable degree, that 

 of all the other ])rovinces of Canada. 

 In the intellectual field, there is hardly 

 anv section, literary, scientific or arlisiic, 

 in which, alongside the greatest name of 

 the I'^nglish race in Canada, the French 

 Canadians are not able to place one of 

 their own who can equal and sometimes 

 surpass his com])etitor. 



Manv times have statesmen and 

 writers in Ivngland congratulated 

 Canada for the "French slocks" she 

 owns, and the imijortanl servicers accru- 

 ing therefrom, far from being "a hin- 

 drance to her racial future." 



C.wov V. A. Hu.\Ri). D. Sc, 

 luiitor of —"I.c Xatiiralist^ Cviidicn." 



