TABLE VI.--COMPARISON OF RESULTS WITH AND WITHOUT MARKS IN THE SIXTY-FIVE FAMILIES. ___________________________________________________________________ | | | | | | | | | 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_ who bear the maiden surname of the mother, and more than five times as numerous as either of the other two, the _fa me fa_ and _me me fa_, whose surnames differ from both, unless it be through some accident, whether of a cross marriage or a chance similarity of names. It is just the same with the great-uncles. Now, the figures for great-grandfathers and great-uncles run so closely alike that they may fairly be grouped together, in order to obtain a more impressive whole--namely, two sorts of these kinsmen, bearing the same name as