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hair in profusion, the negro nose and negro jaw, and 

 thus far was a typical negress. But the skin of her 

 face, neck, and the whole of her forearm, was almost 

 that of an European. We have since examined her 

 more minutely, and she would certainly pass, at a 

 distance, as an European of the darker complexion. The 

 skin of her forearm was almost quite white, but in 

 contrast with an European it is possible to detect a 

 trace of colour in her face and especially on the back 

 of her neck. Now we feel little doubt of the negroid 

 ancestry of this woman. One of her two parents 

 may have been a mulatto, a quadroon, or an octoroon. 

 And yet in this woman we have clearly a segre- 

 gation of skin colour, still associated with typical 

 negroid characters, which Professor Pearson's correspon- 

 dent asserts " dogmatically " does not occur. ^; 



For our second fact we are indebted to Colonel H. de 

 H. Haig, R.E., who spent many years in an island where 

 mulattoes and other degrees of hybrids were abundant.* 

 On page 24 of this Journal, under the heading of " The 

 Mendelian Collection of Human Pedigrees," we have 

 published a pedigree of the offspring derived from a 

 marriage of a mulatto gentleman with an English lady. 

 And in the family of seven children, two possess un- 

 doubted European skins, and are described as very 

 beautiful European women. Here we have a very 

 perfect and clean segregation of the European skin colour. 

 And this case is a perfectly authentic one, inasmuch as 

 the family is well known. 



When we combine the observation of Colonel H. de 

 H. Haig with the South-east London one, there can be 

 no doubt at all that European skin colour does segregate 

 from a coloured ancestry, and that it may be quite clean. 



The divergency between the evidence produced by 

 Professor Pearson and that produced in this Journal, 

 raises further questions. It suggests that the problem is 

 very complex. It is not impossible there may exist 

 several races of negroes in regard to the genetic behaviour 

 of their pigment factors. Or, more probably, there may 

 exist a large number of negroes having different zygotic 



* We are not, for obvious reasons, permitted to mention the island. 

 It is not one of the West Indies. 



