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otherwise by finding that the bias of my assistants has been always 



against the results which they, to their own surprise, have found. In 



all cases the Jew is of the Ashkenazic section and the Gentile is either 



a native of England or Northern Europe. 



Briefly, the results of the intermarriage of Jew and Gentile may be 



stated thus (Table I). 



TABLE I. 



In 50 families where the father was Gentile and the mother a Jewess, 

 there were 88 Gentile-looking children, 15 Jewish, and 4 intermediate in 

 type. In 86 families where the father was Jewish and the mother Gentile, 

 there were 240 Gentile-looking children, 11 Jewish, and 4 intermediate. 

 In both cases the intermediates are practically Gentile-lookiug. Adding 

 the two classes together we find that there are 336 Gentile children to 

 26 Jewish, i.e. 13 Gentile to 1 Jewish. The result is a surprise to both 

 the anthropologist and to the Mendelian. To the former who looks for 

 blending, we have the fact that so far from blending, we have no less 

 than 93 °j^ of the mixed bred offspring resembling one parent only. 

 To the Mendelian some surprise must occur, that the dominance is not 

 absolute, but this is, to a slight extent, due to the Jewish bias in the 

 observations, and to a much greater extent, to a Jewish permeation of 

 the English people in certain localised districts which is much more 

 prevalent than is generally suspected. I have, whilst making these 

 observations, come across certain cases where I was assured that in a 

 certain family the father was a Jew, the mother a Gentile. In one such 

 I examined the children carefully and found that two were without doubt 

 Gentile in appearance whilst one was equally without doubt Jewish. 

 I then discussed the family history with the parents and I was able to 

 obtain the pedigree shown in fig. 1 which at once explains the occurrence 

 of the Jewish child. In another case I found a very similar state of 

 affairs but I was unable to trace it further as the non-Jewish parent 

 objected to elucidate the Jewish blood in her grandparent which she, 

 however, admitted. In a third and fourth case where complete 

 dominance was expected but not obtained, I have reason to believe 

 that it will be discovered that the Gentile parent has Jewish ancestors. 



