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FAMILY STUDIES IN BUILD. 



1. Female, who has suffered from asthma, stomach trouble, gallstones, 

 diphtheria, and appendicitis, has at 36 years the formula 120/63 inches; 

 build 2.1 (30) ; adjusted to 55 years, 130/63 inches; build 2.3 (33). 



2. Male, a farmer, has at 35 years the formula 140/70 inches; build 2.0 

 (29) ; adjusted to 55 years, 148/70 inches; build 2.1 (30). 



3. Male, a farmer, subject in youth to indigestion and catarrh of throat 

 and nose. At 25 years he has the formula 165/68 inches; build 2.5 (36) ; 

 adjusted to 55 years, 179/68 inches; build 2.7 (39). 



4. Male, a teacher, who has suffered from diphtheria and colds, has at 

 23 years the formula 125/63 inches; build 2.2 (32) ; adjusted to 55 years, 

 139/63 inches; build 2.5 (35). 



Comment. — The offspring are still young, and we do not know just how 

 they will develop. One is fleshy (but far less so than his Mother) ; 2 are 

 intermediate, and 1, at 35 years, is even slender (R : Cle-5). 



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Coo Family. (Fig. 39.) 



This is a New York State family 

 upon which I personally made obser- 

 vations. A slender-medium man (II 

 5); build about 2.0 (29), who has 2 

 fleshy and 2 slender sibs, married a 

 very fleshy woman, build 3.4 (49), 

 whose 2 sibs are also fleshy, 3.4 (48) 

 and 2.8 (40) respectively. Her 

 mother was also about 3.4 (49). 

 There were two daughters. One has 

 now at 42 years a build of 3.4 (48) ; 

 her sister a build of 2.4 (34) with a 

 tendency to increase. The fleshy sis- 

 ter married a man of slender build, 

 whose 3 sibs are of slender to medium 

 build. There are 5 children, all under 

 16 except one boy who, at 20 years, 

 has a build of 2.3 (32). He is 73 

 inches (183 cm.) tall. All of the 

 other children are of about medium 

 build. 



Comment. — The very fleshy (but 

 heterozygous) Mother mated with a slender man has children, all of whom 

 are apparently of medium build (73 : 656). 



Fen-1 Family. 



A family of English, Austrian, and Swiss extraction, grandparents and 

 children living in New York State and California. The Father, a merchant, 

 died at 81 years from ulcer of the stomach. At 50 years he had the formula 

 210/69.5 inches; build 3.1 (44). 



The Mother, who has 5 children, has always been well. She is living at 77 

 years, having at 50 years the formula 102/61.5 inches; build 1.8 (27). One 

 of her sisters died at 79 years from "rheumatism of heart." The 5 

 children are: 



1. Male, a manufacturer, who suffered in youth from typhoid fever. 

 He has at 50 years the formula 180/68.5 inches; build 2.7 (38). 



Fig. 39. — Pedigree chart showing distribu- 

 tion of build in the Coo family. 



