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SIRES. 



(Parti-coloured - 48 12 16 4 



Red .... 12 78 24 6 



Roan - - - 16 24 112 8 



White ... 4 6 8 22 



It will be observed that the greatest numbers 

 come diagonally across the table ; hence this 

 diagonal arrangement must be in some man- 

 ner a measure of the degree of resemblance 

 between sire and offspring. 



The lecturer further showed by means of 

 a model that in comparing stature of fathers 

 and sons, the same weighting of the diagonal 

 is obtained. Thus, where the stature of the 

 father is above the average, so is that of the 

 son, though not by as much. 



That this inheritance of the father's charac- 

 teristics is a general rule may further be seen 

 by comparing the cubits of father and son 

 i.e., the measurement from tip of finger to 

 elbow. Here it is found that fathers with 

 long cubits pull their sons cubits up above 

 the average length by about half of the 

 difference in cubit between the father and 

 the average ; while short fathers pull their 

 sons below the average by the same amount. 



In this way '5 may be taken as a measure 

 of the degree of resemblance between a child 

 and one parent. Since exceptional mothers 

 are found to exert the same influence of about 



