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No. 11. A female. Became insane, and is in an 

 asylum. She had an illegitimate child, i.e.. No. 2 of 

 D Generation, before marriage. This child is an epileptic. 

 Nos. 13 and 14 were female twins. No. 13 is eccentric. 

 No. 15. A female ; also eccentric. 

 Nos. 17 — 43. Of most of these there is nothing at 

 present worthy of record. The chief features of impor- 

 tance are two : — 



First : Nos. 27—28, 31—32, and 37—38 were twins. 

 Nos. 27 — 28 were female twins ; Nos. 37 — 38 

 were male twins, and Nos. 31 — 32 were dissimilar 

 in sex. 

 Second : Of the huge famil}- (Nos. 23 — 43) of twenty- 

 one members, only two are alive, i.e., one daughter 

 in the first pair of twins, and one other child, most 

 of them having died early. 



Generation D. 



No. 1. Nothing of importance as yet to record. 



No. 2. An epileptic and illegitimate child. 



Nos. 3 — 15. Of the twelve children of this famUy, 

 ten are now dead and several were stillborn. 



Nos. 16 — 24. Nothing to record, except that Nos. 

 18 and 19 were female twins. 



Nos. 25 — 33. Nothing of importance to record, 

 except that Nos. 27 and 28 were twins of dissimilar sex. 

 Both were stillborn. Nos. 29 and 32 were also stillborn. 



Nos. 34 — 48. Nothing to record from the point of 

 view of the subject under present consideration. 



Nos. 49 — 59. Of these eleven children four are dead. 



Nos. 60 — -65. Nothing to record except that Nos. 

 64 and 65 were female twins. 



Explanation of Pedigree B. 



The symbols and numbers have the same significance 

 as in the Pedigree for Lenticular Cataract (p. 172), and 

 in Pedigree A for Twins (p. 175). The cross-hatched 

 symbols, however, have here a different significance. 

 They indicate insanity or epilepsy. 



Ec. = eccentric. 



Ep. = epileptic. 



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