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Journal of Heredity 



(Formerly the American Breeders' Magazine) 



Vol. VIII, No. 4 April, 1917 



CONTENTS 



The Oldest Known Animal Frontispiece 



Immigration after the War, by Rohert De C. Ward 117 



Engenics too Broadly Interpreted (Review of a hook hy W. Grant 



Hague) 152 



Progress of Reindeer Industry in Alaska 152 



The Mind of the Negro 153 



How Do You Clasp Your Hands ? I55 



The Indiana Survey, hy A. H. Estahrook 156 



Effect of Alcohol on Offspring I59 



Natural Dwarfing, hy Albert A. Hansen 160 



A Non-Broody Strain of Rhode Island Red Fowls 163 



To Solve a Shorthorn Paradox 163 



Breeding for Atropine, by L. Wayne Arny 164 



Deaths Due to Childbirth 167 



An Experiment in Long-Continued Inbreeding 167 



The Evolution of the Horse 168 



Stanford's Marriage Rate 170 



The Standards of Sexual Selection 173 



Orthodactyly, hy Frederick N. Duncan 174 



An Orange Bud Variation, by A. D. Shamel 176 



The Increase of Ignorance, by the Editor 178 



Experiments with Potato-Beetles 183 



The Operation of Budding 18 1 



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 1917 by the 

 American Genetic Association. Reproduction of articles or parts of articles 

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



Date of issue of this number, March 28. 1917. 



