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ever, similarity to the first generation 

 both in form and texture is a domi- 

 nant feature, leaving the identification 

 of the immediate male parent in ob- 

 scurity. 



At present a small crop of young 

 acorns are in formation on some of 

 the trees of the first generation; but as 

 only three male catkins were observed 

 on the most fertile of them, the pollen 

 is again from a foreign source. 



In this connection it is of considerable 

 pleasure and interest to receive "Notes 

 on North American Trees," just pub- 



lished in the Botanical Gazette, vol. Ixv, 

 No. 5, by Professor Sargent. In these 

 notes he describes the natural hybrid 

 Q. lyrata Virginiana, and names it 

 Querciis comptonae, in honor of Miss 

 C. C. Compton, of Natchez, who has 

 assisted him in obtaining specimens of 

 this hybrid from trees growing in her 

 vicinity. Besides in Mississippi, Pro- 

 fessor Sargent mentions localities in 

 Louisiana, Alabama and Texas, where 

 this natural hybrid has been found and 

 comments on their great similarity to 

 mine, due to artificial crossing. 



Mentality of the Arriving Immigrant 



After examining 296 immigrants by 

 means of a series of mental tests, E. H. 

 Mullan of the U. S. Public Health 

 Service, reports that but three of them 

 turned out to be positive cases of mental 

 deficiency and had to be certified for 

 deportation as such. Eight others were 

 thought possible cases of mental de- 

 ficiency but were not certified as such. 

 Twelve immigrants who gave fair re- 

 sponses to test questions exhibited 

 peculiarities which arc suggestive of 

 pathological mental states. These 

 symptoms were not, however, taken 

 into account in grading the subjects, 

 as they were thought to belong more 

 properly to the domain of psychiatry. 



Those tested included 103 Italians, 



50 Hebrews, 26 Russians, 26 Rulhcn- 

 ians, 25 Spaniards, 21 Gcmians, 11 

 Poles, 11 Oreeks, 4 Norwegians, ^ 

 Lithuanians, 3 West Indian Negroes, 

 2 Danes and eight of other nationali- 

 ties. The tests were given through 

 an interpreter and were not siich as to 

 allow a classification according to mental 

 age to be easily made. Arithmetical, 

 memory, transitional tests were given 

 and nonarithmctical reasoning tests. 



Subjects were scored by a point 

 scale. It would seem that no general 

 statistics have been drawn up for the 

 entire group of either subjects or tests, 

 and for this reason it is impossible to 

 off^er many generalizations regarding 

 the findings. 



Errata 



Attention is called to the following 

 errors in the article by Dr. Geo. F. 

 Freeman in Vol. ix. No. 5, of the Jour- 

 nal of Heredity (May-June, 1918): 



Page 213.— For Fig. 14 read Fig. 12, 

 for Fig. 15 read Fig. 13, for Plate II 

 read Fig. 13. (This error occurs in 

 three places at the bottom of the page.) 



Page 214.— For Plate III read Fig. 

 14. (This error occurs in 3 places.) 



Page 215. — For {h) in legend read (c). 



Page 217.— For Plate III read Fig. 

 14. (This error occurs in three places 

 at the bottom of the page.) 



Page 218. — Column two line, 29, for 

 "tarch" read "starch." 



Page 222. — For Fig. 16 read Fig. 14. 

 (Two places.) For Fig. 17 read Fig. 

 15. (Two places.) For Fig. 18 read 

 Fig. 16. (Two places.) 



Dr. Wm. Trelease writes that Fig. 

 12 on page 407 of the Journal of 

 Heredity, Vol. v. No. 9, is not Qiiercus 

 insignis, but is Q. cyclobalanoidcs Tre- 

 lease. This oak is a native of Chiapas, 

 Mexico, not of Huatusco, as was 

 stated. Dr. Trelease has illustrated 

 these two sj^ecics in his article on The 

 Large Fruited American Oaks in The 

 Proceedings of the American Philo- 

 sophical Societv, Vol. liv, No. 216, 

 plate III, 1915.' 



