348 GENERATION. 



nication from Dr. Amos Sawyer, of Hillsboro, Illinois, who 

 seems to have been a close observer of physiological points 

 in the breeding of animals : 



" Mr. Adam Yettle, residing two and a half miles south- 

 west of Nocomis, Montgomery County, Illinois, during the 

 spring of 1868, bred a mare to his stallion. A few nights 

 thereafter (he thinks a week) his jack ' broke loose ' and staid 

 with the mare until morning she still being in heat. A few 

 days ago, she gave birth to twins, one a horse, the other a 

 mule colt, both alive and doing well." 



The following very interesting communication was re- 

 ceived in January, 1869, from Dr. John H. Janeway, Assist- 

 ant Surgeon TJ. S. A., and illustrates superfecundation in the 

 human subject ; or, at least, that was the view taken by the 

 negro father : 



" Frances Hunt, a freed woman, aged thirty-five years, gave 

 birth to twins, February 4, 1867, in E"ew Kent County, Vir- 

 ginia. One of these twins was black, the other was white. 

 Frances is a mulatto. The black child is much darker than 

 she is. Previous to the parturition, she had given birth to 

 seven children, all single births. She was living at the time 

 of her impregnation in the family of a white man as house- 

 servant, sleeping with a black man at night. She insists, how- 

 ever, that she never had carnal intercourse with a white man. 

 She probably does this because the black man turned her out 

 of his house when he saw that one of the children was white." 



This history was accompanied by an excellent photograph 

 of the mother and the two children, a copy of which is given 

 in Fig. 33. One of the children has the color and all the 

 characteristics of the negro, and the other looks like a white 

 child. " The mother and children w T ere inmates of Howard 

 Grove Hospital near this city (Eichmond), where the picture 

 was taken, and I saw them frequently. Both children are 

 now dead. The black one died first, teething, the other was 

 killed by a tobacco-plaster applied to its abdomen, it is sup- 

 posed by its mother. 



