HUMAN PEDIGREES 25 



information supplied by her cousin, Colonel H, de 

 H. Haig, R.E., for the following extremely interesting 

 case of the segregation of European skin colour in 

 a generation of quadroons. To Colonel H. de H. 

 Haig I am under a very great obligation for the 

 interest he manifested in my enquiries and the great 

 trouble he took in thq endeavour to ascertain the 

 answers to them. He very kindly sent me a 

 photograph of a group of persons in which three of 

 the ladies, who belong to the pedigree, appear. 



The facts of the pedigree are given upon the 

 authority of Colonel H. de H. Haig, who was person- 

 ally acquainted with all the persons (with three excep- 

 tions) who appear in the pedigree. I am not of course 

 permitted to mention names, nor can I describe the 

 geographical locality to which these events relate. 

 It is, perhaps, permissible to say that they did not 

 occur in the West Indies. 



The Facts of the Pedigree. 

 The Parents -P Generation. 



The father of the family was almost certainly 

 a yellow mulatto. His parental origin is not known 

 for certain. His skin was light yellow brown ; it 

 was the " colour of leather called nut-brown " and 

 " lighter than a new brown boot." His hair and nose 

 were quite negroid, and his lips slightly so. 



The mother was an Englishwoman, and a daughter 

 of English parents of good social position. 



The mulatto father came to England to study 

 medicine, and upon qualifying, he married the English 



