The Too-Perfect Milkweed 



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quenth- covered with very fine hair, 

 which may be visible only with the aid 

 of a hand lens. The leaves are large, 

 broad, short-petioled, and pubescent 

 on the under side. The flowers, as has 



been mentioned, are quite complex in 

 structure. This plant crosses freely 

 with other Asclepiadaceae, producing 

 hybrids which often present interesting 

 features for study. 



Galton, a Child Prodigy 



Francis Galton, the founder of eu- 

 genics, was one of the most precocious 

 children on record, according to Lewis 

 M. Terman of Stanford University. 

 Professor Terman has been studying 

 the documents presented in Karl Pear- 

 son's admirable Life of Galton, and 

 publishes his conclusions in the April 

 issue of the American Journal of 

 Psychology. 



Between the ages of three and eight 

 years Galton 's mental achievement was 

 at least twice that of the normal child, 

 he thinks: that is, Galton at the age of 



five was as far advanced as the ordinary 

 child of ten. At the age of four, he 

 believes Galton had a 9-year-old 

 intellect. This record is unequaled by 

 any other that is as well substantiated, 

 Professor Terman declares. In his own 

 examinations of several thousand school 

 children in the United States and Can- 

 ada, he has never found one who was 

 thus 100% ahead of his age, nor even 

 75% advanced; and the number who 

 are 50% advanced is so small that it 

 can be reckoned on the fingers of one 

 hand. 



Improved Wheat Produced by Ohio Station 



By methods of selection improved 

 strains of wheat have been developed 

 at the Ohio Agricultural Experiment 

 Station that surpass standard varie- 

 ties by more than two bushels to the 

 acre. Four million bushels more wheat 

 might be raised in Ohio if all farmers 

 were to sow such seed. 



Many selections are discarded in 

 these comparative tests made at the 



Experiment Station because they can- 

 not withstand severe winters. Others 

 have weak straw and are taken out of 

 the competition on this account. A 

 few make poor flour and bread even 

 though they yield well. All the selec- 

 tions must yield more than the old 

 standard varieties from which they 

 were chosen, if they are to be long con- 

 tinued as promising new strains. 



Few Women Medical College Graduates Marry 



As women who follow scientific 

 careers are on the average of superior 

 intellectuality, their marriage rate is a 

 matter of interest to eugenists. A study 

 of the John Hopkins University medical 

 graduates shows that in the years 

 1897-1907 inclusive, sixty women re- 

 ceived the degree of M.D. Three of 

 these have since died. Of the fifty- 

 seven living, twenty-one have maiTied 

 and thirty-six are still single, although 

 ten years after graduation they have 

 reached an age when they are not likely 

 to marr^^ The marriage rate of these 



women may, therefore, be taken at 

 36.8%. This is a lower rate than any 

 general women's college shows, but 

 perhaps no lower than the women who 

 take the degree of Ph.D. in colleges 

 would show. The failure of so many 

 of the women doctors to marry is, 

 doubtless, largely due to the fact that 

 they are by nature inclined toward a 

 career rather than to matrimony; and 

 in part to a prejudice which many 

 men have against a woman "who knows 

 too much." 



