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TABLE 1 b. 



The eyes of the couple of parents : simple X simple, only simple eyes 



in the children. 



TABLE 1 c. 



d := double eyes, 

 s ^ simple eyes. 



brown ring, blue with brown spots, blue with radiating brown stripes, 

 blue with scattered brown »roses» etc. 



In the cases here mentioned the double eyes were in all of them 

 of a certain type. They were blue in the periphery, but with a well- 

 defhied and intensely coloured brown ring all round the pupil. At 

 about a distance of a yard these eyes therefore appeared brown, and 

 by the parents those children were thought to have brown eyes. I 

 had the opportunity of examining the eye colour in the grandparents 

 of these 4 families. The result of this examination is found in table 

 1 c. In all these cases this very same type of double eyes was found 

 in at least one of the grandparents. From table 1 a it is clear that 



