INDEX 



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Mental defect, 63 ; pedigrees, 67, 68 j 

 in villages, 69 ; rate of reproduction, 

 70 J numbers in families, 71 



Mercier, Cardinal, on parental responsi- 

 bility, 182 



Military training, 211 



Millais, Sir J. E., basset hounds, 33 



Mining districts, birth-rate, 135 



Monckton family, 97 



Moos, deaf-mutism, 48 



Morris, William, craftsmanship, 188 



Mutations, 15 



Night-blindness, 46 

 Noel family, 96 



Old Age Pensions, 170 

 Origin of species, 7, 14 



Pauperism and inheritance, 177 



Pearson, Prof. Karl, coefficient of corre- 

 lation, 32, 52 ; eugenics, 217 



Pearson and Barrington, eyesight, 53 



Peas, Mendel's experiments, 19 



Pensions, Old Age, 170 



Pitt on population, 128 



Poor Law Commission, 172 ; and 

 Bastardy, 174 



Population and subsistence, 128 ; and 

 trade, 130 



Professions, overcrowding of, 182, 185 



Public schools, 186 



Punnett, Andalusian fowls, 18 



" Pure lines," 30 



Quetelet, statistical methods, 25 



Recessives, 20 



Religious fervour, 87 



Renaissance, 156 



Reversion, 23 



Rhondda district, birth-rate, 135 



Richelieu, Cardinal, French Canada, 159 



Roman Catholics, 135, 143 ; in French 



Canada, 160 

 Rome, selective birth-rate, 149 

 Ruskin, John, craftsmanship, 188 

 Rust in wheat, 24 



Scholarship, 194 



Scientific ability, inheritance of, 88 



Scottish soldiers, chest measurement of, 



Scrope family, 84 



Selective mating, 33 



Sex, transmission of, 21 



Sheep, horns in, 23, 46 



Social Status and Fertility, Heron, 136 



Socialism and decadence, 132 



Sons, occupations of, 165 ; professions 

 for, 182 



Spain, American colonies, 157 j selective 

 birth-rate, 149 



Specific ability, 86, 88, 100 ; musical, 

 87 ; religious, 87 ; scientific, 90 5 

 military, 98 ; commercial and indus- 

 trial, 103 



" Sports," 14-16 



Statistical methods, 25 



Sterility, 109. See Infertility 



Stewart family, 96 



Stratford de Redcliffe, Viscount, 98 



Taxation and birth-rate, 194, 215, 223 

 Thomson, Sir J. J., on education, 188 

 Transmission of sex, 21 

 Tredgold, Dr., mental defect, 71 

 Tuberculosis, 49, 50 



Unsoundness, effect of, 113 



Villages and feeble-mindedness, 69 

 Visitations of Heralds, 221 



Webb, Sidney, Decline of the Birth-Rate, 



135, 137 



Wedgwood family, 89 



Weismann, inheritance of acquired char- 

 acters, I 5 



Wesley family, 87 



Wheat, 24 



Women's colleges, 143 



Women's occupations, 197, 198, 199 



Women and outdoor relief, 201 



Younger sons, occupations of, 165 



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