...widely. Indeed the conclusions have ranged between the dictum of Graham Bell, that " the evidence shows a tendency to the formation of a deaf variety of the human race in America," on the one hand, to that of the Commissioners of the Irish census of 1881, that "it appears evident...

...widely. Indeed the conclusions have ranged between (he dictum of Graham Bell, that " the evidence shows a tendency to the formation of a deaf variety of the human race in America," on the one hand, to that of the Commissioners of the Irish census of 1881, that "it appears evident...

...continuous intermarriage of congenital deaf-mutes from generation to generation may ultimately result in the formation of a deaf variety of the human race in America, in which all or most of the children will be born deaf. In these conclusions I am supported by the...

...circular letter received to date, June 2, 1888. SCIENTIFIC TESTIMONY. Relating to tlie possibility of the formation of a deaf variety of the human race in America and the conditions necessary to establish it. From Professor EDWARD D. COPE, Editor of the "American Naturalist,"...

...the one band, the conclusion of Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, who dec-lares that "the evidence shows a tendency to the formation of a deaf variety of the human race in America;"* and, on the other hand, the conclusion of the commissioners of the Irish census of 1881, who say that "it...

...Eace," in "Ameriean Annals of the Deaf," Washington, 1884, Vol. XXIX, pp. 74, 76. - " The Possibility of the Formation of a Deaf Variety of the Human Race in America," in " Facts and Opinions relating to the Deaf from Ameriea," London, 1888, pp. 92-96. Eeprinted in "Appendix...

...deaf, held that Dr. Bell had gone to the extreme in declaring in his memoir that "the evidence shows a tendency to the formation of a deaf variety of the human race in America" ; yet he acknowledged that Dr. Bell "certainly demonstrates that the probability of deafmute offspring,...

...statistics that led Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, to write his warning pamphlet, "On the Formation of a Deaf Variety of the Human Race in America." Interesting examples of communities are extant which give support to opposite views as to consanguinity....

...of similarly defective is notorious. Thus Dr. Bell, who has long warned us of the imminent danger of the formation of a deaf variety of the human race in America, says: "I desire to direct attention to the fact that, in this country deaf mutes marry deaf mutes....

...Memoir upon the Formation of a deaf Variety of the Human Race. In it, he asserted that "evidence shows a tendency to the formation of a deaf variety of the human race in America." While he could not alter the inheritability of deafness, he could address the issue of intermarriage...