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nervous, muscular, vascular, alimentary, and respiratory systems, 

 as well as to maladies of the eyes, ears, skin, glands, and blood. 

 The list is astonishingly long, and the evidence is abundant. The 

 studies of feeble-mindedness, insanity, pauperism, and criminal- 

 ity are especially convincing. 



Chapters are also devoted to the geographic distribution of 

 inheritable traits and to migrations and their eugenic signifi- 

 cance. Of special interest is the chapter on the influence of the 

 individual on the race. 



The author closes with a strong plea for a thorough study by 

 the various States, by means of eugenic surveys made by the 

 school teachers, of all their families, for the purpose of record- 

 ing the good and the bad traits of each strain, wnih. a view of 

 eliminating the latter. He feels that society has a right to this 

 information, in spite of the unwillingness to give it that may be 

 felt by individuals, and he meets the objection that such a survey 

 is impracticable by the assertion that a similar one is well ad- 

 vanced in New Jersey, largely through private initiative, by 

 means of field-workers attached to various institutions for de- 

 fectives. He also thinks that there should be a national clearing 

 house to collect the information collected by the various states. 



C. C. Batchelder. 



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