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of its characters if the other parent has a less stable 

 organization, but this will not prevent the inheritance 

 of the peculiarities of both parents that are not in- 

 cluded in the dominant characteristics. 



The cases of cross-heredity, or the transmission by 

 one sex of the peculiarities of the other, in connection 

 with cases like the last above cited, are, however, suffi- 

 cient to show that there are laws governing the trans- 

 mission of characters that, in the present state of 

 knowledge, we are unable to define. 



