Lucas Saez returned to Spain in June, 1883, from the United States with 37 children, 79 grandchildren, and 81 great-grandchildren - in all 197 people, 107 males and 90 females, his eldest son being 70 years of age.

Tedor Vassileff, of Moscow, Russia, in 1782, had 83 children living-when pensioned by the Czar. He had 69 children by his first wife, at 27 births; and, after her death, had 18 more by his second wife, in 8 births.

Mine. Frescobaldi had never less than three children at a birth.