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who have not yet passed childhood. 
There are a number of children already 
in the fourth generation and it will be 
interesting to watch their development 
and those of the third generation to see 
whether new cases of nose bleed appear. 
The maladjustment between blood 
formation and the body requirements 
of Heredity 
may be inherited. At present all that 
can be said, from the data we have, is 
that it occurs in three generations of 
one family. Further search may reveal 
its appearance in more of the first 
generation or of their descendants, and 
time may prove its development in the 
fourth generation. 
The Tendency to 
One of the most extraordinary cases 
of human fecundity is that recalled by 
R. Berger in the Zentralblatt fur 
Gynakologie (1914, 10) on the authority 
of the “‘Gessellschafter von 1834.” The 
case is that of a man whose first wife 
had quadruplets four times, triplets 
three times and twins ten times; and 
whose second wife had triplets once 
and twins ten times. The man was, 
therefore, the father of sixty-eight 
children. Dr. Berger assumes, as 
both wives of the man were thus fecund, 
that the tendency to multiple births 
Immigration 
European emigration to the United 
States is likely to increase after the war, 
according to Professor Robert De C. 
Ward of Harvard University, who 
writes in the Eugenics Review (London, 
January, 1916).. At the same time, the 
physical and mental quality of the 
immigrants is likely to show a decrease 
over the standard which has prevailed 
in the past. A _ serious situation is 
therefore confronting eugenists. As 
measures which will aid in preventing 
the deterioration of the national stock, 
Dr. Ward suggests a heavier fine for 
steamship companies which attempt 
Multiple Births 
was due to the father rather than the 
mother; but the idea seems hardly 
tenable, for the production of several 
children at once is naturally due to the 
production of several ova at once, and 
it is hardly conceivable that the father 
has any influence in the production of 
ova. Yet as a recent study of the 
inheritance of twinning in sheep has 
likewise seemed to indicate a slight 
influence on the part of the sire, in the 
production of twins, the whole question 
deserves a careful examination. 
after the War 
to bring mentally defective aliens to the 
United States, more thorough examina- 
tion of immigrants at port of entry, 
extension from three to five years of 
the time in which an immigrant may be 
deported if he becomes insane, and an 
extension of the list of classes of immi- 
grants who are excluded altogether. 
But more effective than any single 
measure, Dr. Ward thinks, would be a 
measure which would restrict immigra- 
tion in general. He favors some such 
provision as the reading test embodied 
in the Immigration Bill which was 
vetoed last year by President Wilson. 
