INHERITANCE OF TEMPERAMENT. 



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while the other is a quick-tempered imbecile. This may be a case of 

 complete dominance of the excited tendency even in the simplex con- 

 dition, and, as such, it offers no exception. I place it in the duplex- 

 excited class solely on the basis of actual behavior. There is no real 

 contradiction to theoretical expectation. 



In class 6, mating la is between a man who had an ugly, disagreeable 

 disposition and was a great fighter, and a woman of pleasant disposition 

 but subject to sick headaches, a trait that seems to indicate a (reces- 

 sive) nervous weakness. By hypothesis all of the children should be 

 at least nervous, and 4 actually are, but the fifth seems to be more 

 than that and in a fit of excitement committed suicide by swallowing 

 poison. This may be a case of complete dominance of the exciting 



TABLE D. Comparison of sums from table C. 



Total number of offspring recorded in this table, 629. 



x The totals in this table differ slightly from those reported in Davenport, 1915, p. 457, due to changes 

 itroduced in a final revision. 



