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Journal of Heredity 



(Formerly the American Breeders' Magazine) 



Vol. VIII, No. 1 January, 1917 



CONTENTS 



The Sycamore Fig in Egypt, by Thomas W. Brown and F. G. 



Walsingham 3 



Miscegenation in Hawaii 12 



Eugenics as the Basis of Sociology (review of a book by Carl Kelsey) . 12 



Huntington's Chorea and Heredity 12 



Meeting on Saturday not Open to Public 12 



The Modern Idea of Evolution (review of a book by T. H. Morgan) . . 14 



An Early Apostle of Seed Selection 20 



Supposed Degeneration of Vegetables in the Tropics 20 



The Best Papaws 22 



A New TcTit-book on Genetics (review of a book by W. E. Castle) .... 33 



The Great Race Passes (review of a book by Madison Grant) 34 



Colony Care for the Feeble-minded 40 



Annual Business Meeting of the A. G. A 40 



Heredity vs. Environment, by A. H. Estabrook 41 



Human "Free-Martins" 42 



Coeducation and Marriage 43 



Hindu Ideas on Heredity (review of a book by Benoy Kumar Sarkar) 45 



Influence of Heredity in Stammering, by Frank A. Bryant 46 



Japanese Tests of Tree Seeds 47 



The Journal of Heredity is published monthly by the American Genetic 

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Entered as second-class matter February 24, 1915, at the postoffice at Washing- 

 ton, D. C, under the act of August 24, 1912. Contents copyrighted 1916 by the 

 American Genetic Association. Reproduction of articles or parts of articles 

 permitted provided proper credit is given to author and to the Journal of Heredity 

 (Organ of the American Genetic Association), Washington, D. C. 



Date of issue of this number, December 27. 1916. 



