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iu the West of England, but continued tlie gipsy habit of 

 travelling in a caravan with tinker's goods and basket work. 

 They had six children, namely, two sons and four 

 daughters. Of the two sons, one was fair in complexion and 

 had the " wild ways and habits of the gipsy." The other 

 was dark in complexion and married an English country- 

 woman of the district in which his parents had settled. She 

 was of fair complexion. They are shown, as husband and wife, 

 in the left-hand corner of the photograph. They have had four 

 children, namely, three girls (shown in the centre of the photo- 

 graph) and one son (shown standing by the right of his gipsy 

 grandmother, in the left corner of the group). 



The gipsy grandmother has a very prominent type of nose. 

 It is characterised by three chief features : First, the broad base 

 on which the external narial apertures are lodged ; second, the 

 marked convexity of the contour of the bridge ; third, the well- 

 defined or sharp angularity of the general form. Her son's nose 

 differs from hers in all three of these points. His wife's nose is 

 of the more rounded type and differs very widely from that of 

 the gipsy grandmother (her mother-in-law). The three girl 

 children of these two parents clearly do not possess a nose like 

 that of their grandmother. The two younger daughters appear 

 to resemble their mother, while the oldest appears to be an inter- 

 mediate between her mother and father. So far then there is no 

 feature of any special interest. 



But it is otherwise when we come to deal Avith the nose of 

 the son (grandson of the old gipsy woman). For it resembles 

 her's in all three of the marked features which give to her nose 

 its distinctive and prominent form. The convexity of the bridge 

 is, perhaps, not quite so pronounced, but then he is still young, 

 and this is a feature likely to become accentuated with age. 



Two features of Mendelian interest are shown in this group 

 consisting of a grandmother, two parents, and four grandchildren. 

 First, there is a hereditary transmission of nose type from grand- 

 mother to grandson. Second, there is a clean segregation of the 

 nose type manifested by the brother, from the contrasted nose 

 type or types exemplified by his three sisters. 



In the absence of precise information concerning the form of 

 nose of the gipsy grandmother's husband, and of their five other 

 children, and of the brothers and sisters of the grandmother, it is 

 difficult to formulate a scheme showing a definite Mendelian 

 inheritance in this case. But the two features alluded to in the 

 preceding paragraph are strongly suggestive of inheritance 

 according to Mendelian principles. 



We are indebted to Mrs. Rose Haig Thomas for the facts of 

 this case, and for the photograph of the group. The responsi- 

 bility for the analysis and interpretation of the facts rests with us. 



