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264 HEREDITY AND VARIATION 



D wight, president of Yale ; Sereno Edwards D wight, president of 

 Hamilton College ; Theodore Dwight Woolsey, for twenty-five 

 years president of Yale College ; Sarah, wife of Tapping Reeve, 



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This record shows the inheritance of artistic ability (black circles and squares). 



(After Davenport.) 



founder of Litchfield Law School, herself no mean lawyer ; Daniel 

 Tyler, a general in the Civil War and founder of the iron indus- 

 tries of North Alabama ; Timothy Dwight, second, president of 

 Yale University from 1886 to 1898 ; Theodore AVilliam Dwight, 

 founder and for thirty-three years warden of Columbia Law 

 School ; Henrietta Frances, wife of Eli Whitney, inventor of the 

 cotton gin, who, burning the midnight oil by the side of her ingen- 

 ious husband, helped him to his enduring fame ; Merrill Edwards 

 Gates, president of Amherst College ; Catherine Maria Sedg- 

 wick of graceful pen ; Charles Sedgwick Minot, authority on 

 biology and embryology in the Harvard Medical School ; Edith 

 Kermit Carow, wife of Theodore Roosevelt ; and Winston Churchill, 

 the author of Coniston and other well-known novels." 



Of the daughters of Elizabeth Tuttle distinguished descendants 

 also came. Robert Treat Paine, signer of the Declaration of 

 Independence; Chief Justice of the United States Morrison R. 

 Waite ; Ulysses S. Grant and Grover Cleveland, presidents of the 

 United States. These and many other prominent men and women 

 can trace the characters which enabled them to occupy the posi- 

 tions of culture and learning they held back to Elizabeth Tuttle. 



Euthenics. — Euthenics, the betterment of the environment, 

 is another important factor in the production of a stronger race. 

 The strongest physical characteristics may be ruined if the sur- 

 roundings are unwholesome and unsanitary. The slums of a city 



