28 INHERITANCE, VARIATION AND SELECTION. 



toe deformed; Andre, whose fingers and toes were quite perfect, 

 'ike those of his mother; and Marie, who had five each, but with 

 her thumbs deformed. Salvator. who married a five-fingered and 

 five-toed woman, had four children, three of whom had six fingers 

 and six toes. George had four children, two of whom had six 

 fingers and six toes, and one of whom had six fingers on one hand. 

 Andre's children were all normal, but Marie, who had no defect 

 except deformed thumbs and who married a normal man. had one 

 child with six toes. 



In the Colburn family, a woman having six fingers transmitted 

 the deformity to her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchil- 

 dren. Among her great-great-grandchildren, four out of eight 

 also had six fingers on each hand. 



Dr. Lepine reports the case of a man who had only three fin- 

 gers on each hand, and four toes on each foot. His grandfather 

 and his son had the same deformitv. 5 



Adrian de Jussieu gives the case of a woman with three nipples. 

 "The additional nipple was placed in the groin, and served ordi- 

 narily for suckling, while in the mother of this woman, who was 

 also born with three nipples, they were all placed on the anterior 

 region of the thorax." 6 



Darwin gives, 7 on the authority of Candole, a curious instance 

 of inheritance of the power of moving the scalp. A man could, as 

 a youth, pitch several heavy books from his head by the scalp alone; 

 and won wagers by performing this feat. His father, uncle, grand- 

 father, and all his three children possessed the same power in the 

 same unusual degree. Eight generations previously the family 



(5) Stock Breeding, p. 51. 



(6) British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review, April, 1863, p. 460. 



(7) Descent of Man, Vol. I, 19. 



