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PREFACE

The first three lines of Table V. show that there is no significant difference between the average numbers of brothers and sisters, nor between those of fathers' brothers and fathers' sisters, nor again between those of mothers' brothers and mothers' sisters ; nor is there any large difference between those of male and female cousins, but it is apparently

TABLE V.-NUMBER OF KINSFOLK IN ONE HUNDRED FAMILIES
WHO SURVIVED CHILDHOOD.

 

Generic   Specific

Kinships.   Kinships.

Number of

Persons.

Specific

Kinships.

Number of

Persons.

Brothers and

sisters

bro

206

Si

207

Uncles and

fa bro

228

fa si

207

aunts

me bro

219

me si

238

 

Mean ...

224

Mean ...

223

 

fa bro son

265

fa bro da

302

First cousins,

fa Si son

184

fa si da

208

male and

me bro son

236

me bro da

266

female

me si son

237

me si da

246

a fact that the group of " brothers " is a trifle smaller than that of uncles on either side. I t seems, therefore, that the generation of the Subjects contains a somewhat smaller number of individuals than that of either of their Parents, being to that extent significant of a lessening population so far as their class is concerned.