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 inMendel’s Principles of Heredity, by W. Bateson.
[3]Heredity of Skin Color in Negro and White Crosses: Publication No. 188, of theCarnegie 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.” SeeReport 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.