TABLE OF CONTENTS. 

 PART i. 



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I. STATEMENT OF PROBLEM 1 



II. AN IMPROVED METHOD OF TESTING THE FITNESS OF UNTRIED OFFICERS .... 2 



1. General Considerations 2 



2. Special Procedure 3 



III. RESULTS OF STUDY 4 



1. Types of Naval Officers 



2. Temperament in Relation to Type 



3. Juvenile Promise of Naval Officers of the Various Types 



Fighters 



Strategists 



Administrators 7 



Explorers 8 



Adventurers 8 



Conclusion as to Juvenile Promise 8 



4. The Hereditary Traits of Naval Officers 9 



General 9 



The Inheritance of Special Traits 25 



Thalassophilia, or Love of the Sea 25 



Source of Thalassophilia (or Sea-lust) in Naval Officers . . 25 



Heredity of Sea-lust 27 



The Hyperkinetic Qualities of the Fighters 29 



Source of Nomadism in Naval Officers 31 



IV. CONCLUSIONS 33 



V. APPLICATION OF PRINCIPLES TO SELECTION OF UNTRIED MEN , 33 



PART 1 1. 



BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES OF NAVAL OFFICERS, WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO THEIR JUVENILE 

 PROMISE AND THEIR PERSONAL TRAITS. 



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1. William Bainbridge 36 



2. Joshua Barney 37 



3. John Barry 40 



4. Philip Beaver 41 



5. Charles William de la Poer Beresford 42 



6. George Smith Blake 44 



7. Robert Blake 47 



8. Jahleel Brenton 49 



9. Moses Brown 51 



10. Franklin Buchanan 53 



11. Thomas Cochrane 56 



12. Cuthbert CoUingwood 59 . 



13. William Barker Gushing 60 



14. John Adolf Dahlgren 64 



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