3IO WORK ON 'MAN/ [1270, 



The subject of cousin marriages was afterwards investi- 

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

 of work were negative ; the author sums up in the sen- 

 tence : 



" My paper is far from giving any thing like a satisfactory 

 solution of the question as to the effects of consanguineous 

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

 this question has already been set at rest, cannot be sub- 

 stantiated."] 



* " Marriages between First Cousins in England, and their Effects/ 

 By George Darwin. 'Journal of the Statistical Society,' June, 1875, 



