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Case of so called Roberts’ syndrome, depicted in John Bingham Roberts report in Annals of Surgery vol. 70, 1924. This report says that infant was of Italian parentage, belonging to a family in which there was a good deal of intermarrying. The parents of this child are first cousins. There are two living children, one eleven years; one, three, both girls. The first child, born in Italy, was a monstrosity and is dead. The two next children are normal in development. Three years ago a girl was born almost identical in deformities with this male child shown the Academy. The girl just mentioned died shortly after birth and this boy did die when fifteen days old.