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one of whom was idiotic, and no doubt licentious, and five others, 

 harlots or prostitutes, one of them keeping a brothel ; while, on 

 the father's (see chart III., gen. 4, line 37), there was one sister who 

 also kept a brothel. Whether this pair removed from the vicinity 

 of their relations has not been learned, and what were the other 

 particulars of their career are unknown. This case looks more 

 like one of pure heredity than any that has been traced. 



Case 2. Taking line 13, and following the heredity, we have 

 (gen. 6) two illegitimate children of a white woman. One of them 

 was a mulatto girl, who died at one year old of syphilis, whose 

 mother (gen. 5) was a bastard prostitute, afflicted with the same 

 disease, whose mother (gen. 4) was a prostitute afflicted likewise in 

 the constitutional form, inherited from her licentious father, whose 

 mother, Ada, was a harlot. 



Now for the environment. The infant girl who died was con- 

 ceived by the roadside, and born in the poor-house. Its mother 

 (gen. 5) was a vagrant child, her mother having no home for her. So 

 neglected was she, that at seven years she was committed to the 

 county jail for a misdemeanor. She was idle, disgustingly dirty, 

 and for that reason could get no place as a servant, and as she 

 must live, fell into the practice of prostitution. Her half-sister also 

 had an illegitimate child, while other relations and acquaintances 

 gave the example of profligacy. Her mother (gen. 4) was married 

 twice — then cohabited with the man who became this girl's father, and 

 when he went to the war in 1863 and deserted her, she followed the 

 example of her other four prostitute sisters, one of whom kept a 

 brothel. Going back to the father (gen. 3) we find him a soldier in 

 the war of 18 12, very licentious, whose two harlot sisters married 

 mulattoes. As this was at a time when slavery existed in this 

 State, the social condition under which this consorting took place 

 is significant. 



We have here an environment in three generations which corre- 

 sponds to the heredity ; this environment forming an example to the 

 younger generation which must have been sufficient, without he- 

 redity, to stimulate licentious practices. 



Case 3. Turning to the illegitimate branch of Ada (chart I.), 

 trace the heredity of legitimacy in lines 40 and 41 (gen. 6), two 



