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formed, while many more, 9.03 per cent., of the grand- 

 daughters were deformed and among the young of unde- 

 termined sex 16.66 per cent, were deformed. 



In the last section the records of descendants from alco 

 holized grandmothers on the mother's side are given. 

 There were 23 males, 18 females, and 25 young which died 

 with their sex unascertained. Forty-eight and forty- 

 eight hundredths per cent, of the animals lived. The 

 mortality among the males was 21.74 per cent., about the 

 same as that of the females which was 22.22 per cent. 

 The total mortality being 51.51 per cent. From this com- 

 bination there occurred a low percentage of deformities, 

 confined entirely to the grandsons. So that 8.69 per 

 cent, of the grandsons from alcoholized maternal grand- 

 mothers were deformed, while none of the granddaughters 

 showed any gross structural abnormalities. 



TABLE IV 



Table IV presents in a more concise manner certain of 

 the figures considered in the foregoing Table III. Only 

 the mortality records of the male and female descend- 

 ants from different sources and the total mortality of the 

 several groups is shown by the table and thus a ready 

 comparison of the conditions may be made. Among the 



