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As already stated the black circles indicate those miMiibers of the 

 family who are "skilful in drawing," but skill in divuving does not 

 conipi'ise the whole of artistic ability. In its full development artistic 

 ability secius to uie to comprise at least five distinct talents : namely 



1. Perception of form. 



2. Perception of (U)lour. 



3. Memory of form. 



4. Memory of colour. 



5. Inventiveness. (Design.) 



Those who possess nos. 1 and 2 may be able to make excellent copies : 

 but could not draw things from memory — they may have no clear 

 remembrance of form or colour. 



Those who possess nos. 3 and 4 must of necessity have 1 and 2 also. 



A person may have all the first four, and be totally lacking in 

 inventive faculty. 



Anyone who po.ssesses no. 5 must of necessity possess all the others ; 

 so that this must be regarded as the highest form of artistic ability. 

 This family is interesting from this point of view. Several members 

 are stated to be skilful as designers, which means that they possess the 

 inventive faculty. 



Nothing can now be stated as to whether there were any designers 

 in Generation I. There are two in Generation II (nos. 1 and 12). 



In Generation III there are twelve designers, and they are all 

 children of the two mentioned in Generation II : two of them are the 

 children of II, 1, and ten are the children of II, 12. 



If design is inherited like drawing ability, then II, 11 was probably 

 a designer, but if so the fact has nijt been mentioned. It will be 

 interesting to notice whethtu- " design " develops in the children in 

 the fourth generation. It is noteworthy that no other artistic member 

 of the third generation is talented in this way beyond those mentioned : 

 in other words, only those who design have children who show the same 

 talent. 



Musical ability/. 



This chart shows the pedigree of a family of organists. The musical 

 members are indicatt'd by black circles, the non-musical by white ones. 



By musical ability is here meant something more than mere ability 

 to play certain nuisical instruments. It implies the possession of the 

 musical Sense, whatever that is. I am informed by a professional 



