of 6; remainder girls.  Of humble social position.  Considerable depravity evinced by all the members of this family, with the exception of D., who alone proved steady, honest, and industrious.

5.  E., male, invert, second son of family of 3, the youngest child being a girl, stillborn.  Of extreme neurotic temperament fostered by upbringing.  Effeminate in build and disposition; musically gifted.

6.  F., male, invert, second child of family of 5.  Eldest child a girl, died in youth.  After F. a boy G., a girl H., and another girl stillborn.  Parents badly matched; mother of considerable mental and physical strength; father last representative of moribund stock, the result of intermarriage.  Children all resembling father in appearance and mother in disposition.  Drink-tendency in both boys, to which F.’s death at the age of 30 was mainly due.  G. committed suicide some years later.  The girl H. married into a family with worse ancestry than her own.  Has two children:—­

7.  I. and J., boy and girl, both inverted as far as I am able to judge.  The boy was born with some deformity of the feet and ankles; is of effeminate tastes and appearance.  Boy resembles mother, and girl, who is of great physical development, resembles father.

    The same correspondent adds:—­

“I have noticed little abnormal with regard to the genital formation of inverts.  There are, however, frequent abnormalities of proportion in their figures, the hands and feet being noticeably smaller and more shapely, the waist more marked, the body softer and less muscular.  Almost invariably there is either cranial malformation or the head approaches the feminine in type and shape.”

ARTISTIC AND OTHER APTITUDES.—­All avocations are represented among inverts.  Among the subjects here dealt with are found, at one end of the scale, numerous manual workers, and at the other end an equal number, sometimes of aristocratic family, who exercise no profession at all.  There are 12 physicians, 9 men of letters, at least 7 are engaged in commercial life, 6 are artists, architects, or composers, 4 are or have been actors.  These figures cannot give any clue to the relative extent of inversion in various occupations, but they indicate that no class of occupation furnishes a safeguard against inversion.

There are, however, certain avocations to which inverts seem especially called.[219] One of the chief of these is literature.  The apparent predominance of physicians is easily explicable.  The frequency with which literature is represented is probably more genuine.  Here, indeed, inverts seem to find the highest degree of success and reputation.  At least half a dozen of my subjects are successful men of letters, and I could easily add others by going outside the group of Histories included in this study.  They especially cultivate those regions of belles-lettres which lie on the borderland between prose and verse.  Though they do not usually attain much eminence in poetry, they are often very accomplished writers of verse.  They may be attracted to history, but rarely attempt tasks of great magnitude, involving much patient labor, though to this rule there are exceptions.  Pure science seems to have relatively little attraction for the homosexual.[220]