The Laws of Heredity. 



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HEREDITY FROM MOTHER TO SON. 



MOTHER. 



Olympias . 



Cornelia .... 



Livia 



Agrippina .... 

 Faustina . 



Soemias .... 

 Mammxa . . . . 

 Marozia .... 

 Blanche of Castille . 

 Berengaria .... 

 Charlotte of Savoy . . . 

 Louise of Savoy . . . 

 Mary Stuart . 

 Catherine de Medicis . . 

 Jeanne d'Albret 

 Marie de Medicis . . 

 Anne-Christine Marlin 

 Mdlle. de Tencin 

 Genevieve de Vassau 



Santi Lomaka (Greek) . . 

 Mrs. Byron (Catherine Gordon) 



SON. 



Alexander the Gieat 

 The Gracchi 

 Tiberius 

 Nero 



Commodus 

 Heliogabalus 

 Alexander Severus 

 Pope John XL 

 Louis IX. 

 St Ferdinand 

 Charles VIIL 

 Francis I. 

 James I. (?) 

 Her sons 

 Henri IV. 

 Louis XIIL 

 Buffon 

 D'Alembert 

 Mirabeau 

 Andre" ) 

 M-J. / 

 Goethe 

 Byron 



Chdnier 



Remarks. Alfonso XL, King of Castille, famed for his re- 

 ligious zeal and his love of warfare against the Moors, was the 

 father of Berengaria, Blanche, and Uraca. The first of these 

 became the mother of St Ferdinand. The second had four sons, 

 among them St Louis and Charles of Anjou, both ascetics, who 

 mortified their flesh with iron girdles, scourgings, extreme fastings, 

 etc. The third made her son Sancho take the monastic habit, 

 though called to the throne of Portugal. 



Buffon, who held the doctrine of cross heredity, used to say 

 that he himself took after his mother. ' He held it for a principle, 

 says Herault de Sechelles, ' that childen usually inherit intellectual 

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