this.

TABLE VI.--COMPARISON OF RESULTS WITH AND WITHOUT
MARKS IN THE SIXTY-FIVE FAMILIES.
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| | | | | | |
| | First | Second | Third | First | Total |
| | Degree.| Degree.| Degree.| Cousins.| |
|______________________|________|________|________|_________|_______|
| | | | | | |
|Number of marks | 225 | 208 | 102 | 122 | 657 |
| assigned | | | | | |
|______________________|________|________|________|_________|_______|
| | | | | | |
|Number of marks | | | | | |
| reduced | | | | | |
| proportionately | 113 | 104 | 51 | 61 | 329 |
|Number of individuals | | | | | |
| unmarked | 110 | 112 | 46 | 61 | 329 |
|______________________|________|________|________|_________|_______|
| | | | | | |
| Mean | 111 | 108 | 49 | 61 | 329 |
|______________________|________|________|________|_________|_______|

Table VII., in the next chapter, affords an interesting illustration
of the character of the ignorance concerning the noteworthiness of
kinsmen in distant degrees, showing that it is much lessened when
they bear the same surname as their father, or even as the maiden
surname of their mother. The argument is this: Table V. has already
shown that _me bros_ are, speaking roughly, as frequently noteworthy
as _fa bros_--fifty-two of the one to forty-five of the other--so
noteworthiness is so far an equal characteristic of the maternal and
paternal lines, resembling in that respect nearly all the qualities
that are transmitted purely through heredity. There ought, therefore,
to be as many persons recorded as noteworthy in each of the four
different kinds of great-grandparents. The same should be the case in
each of the four kinds of great-uncles. But this is not so in either
case. The noteworthy great-grandfathers, _fa fa fa_, who bear the
same name as the subject are twice as numerous as the _me fa fa_