Note 22 — Chapter II
Reading edition
A First Study of the Influence of Parental Alcoholism on the Physique and Intelligence of Offspring. By Ethel M. Elderton and Karl Pearson. Eugenics Laboratory Memoir Series X. Harald Westergaard, who reëxamined the Elderton-Pearson data, concludes that considerable importance is to be attached to the selective action of alcohol, the weaklings in the alcoholic families having been weeded out early in life.