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additional cases are given. In one of these there were 12 children 
who survived infancy (there being 4 stillborn). Of these three 
were epileptic, one was feeble-minded, two were migranous and 
six were neurotic. In the other case of the four surviving children 
(4 being stillborn) two were epileptic, one was feeble-minded and 
one “unclassified.” In the two latter families nothing is recorded 
of the ages of the children except that they were over 14, although 
one would expect some explanation of the apparent discrepancy 
between the results and the theoretical expectations. If offspring 
from two epileptic parents may be simply migranous or neurotic 
the “character” that is transmitted must be subject to a remark- 
able degree of fluctuation. 
As the authors remark, feeble-mindedness and epilepsy appear 
to be closely related in their transmission. Nine matings in which 
both parents were feeble-minded gave one or more epileptics in 
each family, while a larger number of children were simply feeble- 
minded. In Week’s data which includes all the cases in the paper 
by Davenport and Weeks there is given 15 matings in which one 
parent is epileptic and the other feeble-minded. Of the 55 off- 
spring who lived to be old enough to classify, 28 were epileptic, 26 
feeble-minded, and 1 insane. Of the 27 matings in which both 
parents were either feeble-minded or epileptic all of the offspring 
above 14 about whose condition anything could be ascertained 
were classed as mentally abnormal, 43 being epileptic, 58 feeble- 
minded, one insane, 2 migranous, and 8 neurotic,—certainly a 
fearful harvest of undesirable progeny. 
Notwithstanding the hereditary association of epilepsy and 
feeble-mindedness, it cannot be maintained that these are heredi- 
tarily equivalent neuroses. Epilepsy is much more likely to 
appear when one or both of the parents are epileptic than when 
they are feeble-minded. When one parent was feeble-minded, 
and the other epileptic the proportion of epileptic to feeble- 
minded offspring of classifiable age was 28 epileptic to 26 feeble- 
minded, whereas when both parents were feeble minded the ratio 
was 7 epileptic to 29 feeble-minded. And the latter ratio is 
naturally much higher than the average, since only those families 
