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I leave to another chapter some remarks about 

 the relative value of maternal and paternal edu- 

 cational influences on scientific men. 



nephews and grandsons, and in a second table even to great- 

 grandparents, great-grandsons, and other equally remote de- 

 grees, but this latter was confessedly of little value. 



