Eugenical News Volume 3 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...20 leopard frogs from punctured, unfertilized eggs; of these some are full grown and entirely normal in form. Among 9 adult frogs of parthenogenetic origin were two females. The parthenogenetic males had the diploid number of chromosomes--just as though fertilization had taken place. (Proc. Nat. Acad. of Sci., March.) Dr. C. Ward Crampton, director of Physical Training of the Department of Education, New York City, writes: Germans and Scandinavians--tall races arrive at puberty later. They are taller than others at that time. In short races, to wit--Russian Jews--puberty is very early, and occurs while the children are short. Dr. George E. Hyde, superintendent of the State Mental Hospital at Provo, Utah, has written the Eugenics Record Office telling of his interest in eugenical field studies, and has stated his intention to nominate a worker for membership in the Field Workers' Training Class who, upon completing the course, will return to Provo for the purpose of conducting field studies in human heredity in connection with the hospital. Colonel Roosevelt in the October "Metropolitan," while decrying the "profoundly immoral attitude toward life" advocated "in the name of 'reform' through birth control"; proposed the following remedy. In taxation the rate should be immensely heavier on the childless and on the families with one or two children, while an equally heavy discrimination should lie in favor of the family with over 3 children. VOL. III. JULY, 1918. NO. 7. A NEW YORK CARDINAL. John McCloskey, bora in Brooklyn, New York, of Roman Catholic parents, was sent, in 1821, by his widowed mother to a Roman Catholic College at Emmitsburg, Maryland, where he spent 13 years. Then he became a priest in New York...