130 WORK ON 'MAN.' [iS/O. 



The subject of cousin marriages was afterwards investigated 

 by my brother.* The results of this laborious piece of work 

 were negative ; the author sums up in the sentence : 



" My paper is far from giving anything like a satisfactory 

 solution of the question as to the effects of consanguine- 

 ous marriages, but it does, I think, show that the assertion 

 that this question has already been set at rest, cannot be 

 substantiated."] 



* " Marriages between First nal of the Statistical Society/ June 

 Cousins in England, and their 1875. 

 Effects." By George Darwin. 'Jour- 



