Chapter X: Race Betterment Through Heredity (3)

Statistics, trustworthy needed, 334.

Stature, inheritance of, 17.

Stereotropism, 198.

Sterility, 182.

Sterilization: 322;
in epilepsy, 326;
laws, 323;
laws, on trial, 329;
laws, states having, 327.

Stevens, 41.

Stockard, 174-178.

Strength, muscular, 120.

Stripes, reversionary, 8.

Stutzman, 305.

Sullivan, 168.

Superior strains, conservation of, 157.

Synapse, 210.

Synapsis, 41, 42.

Syndactyly, 65, 108, 111.

Syphilis: 184-190;
and prostitutes, 185;
cerebro-spinal form, 189-190;
prenuptial inspection for, 190-192;
prevalence, 186;
stages of, 185;
tests for, 188.

Syphilitics: children of, 187, 188;
married, 190.

Tabes dorsalis, 186.

Taints, 101.

Talent, inheritance of, 212.

Taylor, 297.

Telegony, alleged cases of, 10.

Temperament, inheritance of, 19.

Thermotropism, 198.

Thigmotropism, 198.

Third generation, segregation in, 69.

Thomsen's disease, 118.

Thomson, 55.

Thorndike, 296.

Tower, 125.

Training of children: and heredity, 218;
faults in, 221, 222.

Transmission, not necessarily inheritance, 163.

Tredgold, 170.

Treponema pallidum, 185.

Tribe of Ishmael, 271.

Tropic responses: often purposeful, 201;
uncertainties in, 202.

Tropisms: 197;
complications in, 200;
in plants and animals, 198;
relations to reflex actions and instincts, 203.

Tschermak, 68.

Tuberculosis, 118, 148-160, 162.

Twins: identical, 55;
sex of, 55.

Typhoid, 152.

Unemployed, frequently morons, 280.

Unfit, elimination of, urgent, 313.

Unit-character: 12;
inheritance of, 13.

Unicellular organisms: 21;
inheritance in, 22, 23.

Use and disuse, 122.

Van Ingen, 167.

Vasectomy, 322.

Venereal disease, 182.

Virchow, 147.

Voison, 133.

Volitions as tropisms, 199.

Volvox, 25, 26, 27.

War, eugenical effects of, 299.

Wasserman, provocative, 189.

Wasserman test, 188, 189.

Webbed digits, 65.

Weeks, 251, 252, 253, 291.

West, 167.

Wheat, 75, 81, 88.

Whetham, 314, 316.

Whitman, 145.

Wilmarth, 243, 245, 274, 291.

Wilson, 59, 62, 94, 95.

Woods, 296.

X-element, 57, 58.

Zebra hybrids, 10.

Zeros, the, 271.

Zygote: 26, 27;
chromosomes of, 40.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] The reader desiring more detailed information will find fuller discussions in the following:

Wilson, E. B.: _Recent Researches on the Determination and Heredity of Sex_. Science, January 8, 1909.

Wilson, E. B.: _The Chromosomes in Relation to the Determination of Sex_. Science Progress, April, 1910.

Guyer, M. F.: _Recent Progress in Some Lines of Cytology_. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society, April, 1911.

Morgan, T. H.: _Heredity and Sex_. Columbia University Press, 1913.

[2] A translation of Mendel's original papers will be found in _Mendel's Principles of Heredity_, by W. Bateson.

[3] _Heredity of Skin Color in Negro and White Crosses_: Publication No. 188, of the _Carnegie Institution of Washington_.

[4] Whitman, C. O.: _Animal Behavior, Biological Lectures_, Marine Biological Laboratory, 1898.

[5] _The Fight Against Tuberculosis and the Death Rate from Phthisis_, London, Dulau & Co., 1911.

[6] Forel, August: _The Sexual Question_, p. 268.

[7] Loc. cit. p. 251.

[8] In this connection it is instructive to note from a Michigan state report, just off the press, that, among 4,917 insane individuals concerning whom satisfactory information was obtained, 65.4 per cent. "had among their ancestors or family such hereditary influences as insanity, apoplexy or paralysis, psychopathic abnormalities or alcoholism." See _Report of the Commission to Investigate the Extent of Feeble-mindedness, Epilepsy, Insanity and Other Conditions of Mental Defectiveness in Michigan_. Wynkoop Hollenbeck Crawford Co., State Printers, Lansing, Michigan, 1915.

[9] _Feeble-mindedness; Its Causes and Consequences_, by Henry H. Goddard, The Macmillan Company, 1914.

[10] _The Binet-Simon Measuring Scale for Intelligence_, by Henry H. Goddard, 1911. The Training School, Vineland, N. J. Price 15 cents.

[11] "Tests for Mental Defects," by Howard A. Knox, _Journal of Heredity_, March, 1914. See also Knox: _Journal of the American Medical Association_, 1914.

[12] _The Individual Delinquent_, by William Healy, M. D. Little, Brown & Co., Boston.

[13] _The Individual Delinquent_, by William Healy, M. D. Little, Brown & Co., Boston.

[14] The Psycopathic Laboratory in connection with the Juvenile Court of Chicago.

[15] See "The Foreign Born in the United States." _The National Geographic Magazine_, September, 1914.

[16] See First Report of the Committee of the Eugenic Section of the American Breeders' Association, "On Immigration", _American Breeders' Magazine_, Vol. III, No. 4, 1912. Also Second Report of same, _The Journal of Heredity_, July, 1914.

[17] "The Negro and His Health Problems," _Medical Record_, September 12, 1912.

[18] See D. S. Jordan, _The Human Harvest_, or V. L. Kellogg, _Eugenics and Militarism_.

[19] For arguments indicating the superior eugenical fitness of college graduates see "Wellesley's Birth-Rate," by Roswell H. Johnson and Bertha Stutzman, _The Journal of Heredity_, June, 1915. See also, "Education and Race Suicide," by Robert J. Sprague, _ibid._, April, 1915.

[20] Since the present manuscript went to press an excellent government report (_Insane and Feeble-Minded in Institutions in 1910_, Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, 1914, Washington, D. C.) has appeared. In it one finds the estimate that not over one-tenth of our feeble-minded are being cared for in special institutions.

[21] For summaries of existing sterilization laws and statements of the issues involved see (1) _The Legal, Legislative, and Administrative Aspects of Sterilisation_, Bulletin 10B, February 3, 1914, Eugenics Record Office, Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y.; (2) _Sterilisation of Criminals_, Report of Committee H of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology, Bulletin No. XV, September, 1914.

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