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Fig. 4. This chart illustrates the hovel source of defectives. A feeble- 

 minded man had by his defective sister an epileptic daughter with criminal 

 instincts ; then by this daughter he had four children, two feeble-minded, 

 one epileptic and the fourth an anencephalic monster who died directly 

 after birth. The empty germ plasm yields only emptiness. These things 

 were done in a little hut in the woods until it burned down and now 

 mother and eldest daughter, when not in the county jail or the Monmouth 

 County almshouse, live in a cellar in town. The man is dead; but some of 

 his protoplasm is living and at large. Case 3165. 



Fig. 5. In this chart the central mating is of two feeble-minded per- 

 sons. The father had, in turn, a feeble-minded father. He himself is a 

 drug fiend and, like his wife, has lived in an almshouse (2). His sister 

 was a lewd woman and had three illegitimate children. There are seven 

 offspring born between 1872 and 1892. Nothing is known of number 5 

 except that she has four children. Nos. 2 and 3 were at the almshouse ; the 

 other four are also feeble-minded, and three of them epileptic in addition. 

 The two youngest are in a " children's home." There are eleven children 

 coming on in the rising generation. Case 2847. 



