62 HEREDITY OF SKIN COLOR IN NEGRO-WHITE CROSSES. 



brown and wavy; skin 33, 35, 14, 18), married P., said to 

 be of the same color ; eyes gray or blue ; hair black and wavy. 

 They have two children (II 1,2). (2) The other, A. G. (29 

 years old, eyes black, hair black, and straight; would pass 

 for a brunet; skin 7, 42, 20, 31), married E. H., who has 

 black wavy hair; skin say N 40 per cent. They have three 

 children (II 3, 4, 5). 



II Gen. i, cf. R. P., 4 years. Eyes clear blue; hair flaxen, curls, becoming 

 medium brown near his head; easily pass for a white child; 

 skin 5, 40, 18, 37. 



2, 9 . M. P., 2 years. Hair medium brown and straight, lighter 

 on its curly ends; skin 34, 35, 15, 16. 



3, 9 . O. H., 4 years. Eyes black; hair soft medium brown, a bit 



curly on ends; skin 5, 35, 24, 36. 



4, 9 . N. H., 2 years. Eyes brown; hair brown, wavy; skin 5, 38, 



24, 33- 



5, 9 . M. H., 4 months. Skin 5, 47, 20, 28. 



PEDIGREE 25. B. FAMILY. 



A Mixture of Colored, Indian, and Irish Blood; Red Hair Segregated in 



Youngest Generation. 



I Gen. Five children were born of J. B., whose father was an Irishman and 

 whose mother was colored. He has black, straight hair 

 and skin, say N 10 per cent, and his wife is a light-colored 

 woman; skin say N 20 per cent. 



1. The first daughter, E. B. (with features strikingly 

 Indian, about 6 feet tall, wiry, high cheek bones, eyes dark 

 brown; hirr black and almost straight; skin 23, 43, 18, 16), 

 married J. M., the son of a Scotchman and his wife, niece 

 of J. B. described above. She had reddish hair (from an 

 Irish ancestor) and very fair skin. J. M.'s eyes were slightly 

 brown; hair dark brown and straight; skin 7, 29, 30, 34. 

 They had three children (II i, 2, 3). (See fig. 6.) 



2. The second daughter, A. B. [C.] (eyes dark brown; 

 hair dark brown, wavy; skin 17, 40, 20, 23), married E. C., 

 son of white man and a woman whose parents were both 

 colored. He has dark brown eyes; hair dark brown and 

 nearly straight; skin 20, 37, 20, 23. They have four chil- 

 dren (II 4, 5, 6, 7). (See fig. 5.) 



3. One son, A. B., skin said to be N 20 per cent, married 

 a medium-colored woman whose father was brown-skinned 

 and curly-haired and mother mulatto. She has dark brown 

 eyes; black, wavy hair; skin 28, 46, 10, 16. They have 

 three children (II 8, 9, 10). 



4. Another son, skin say N 17 per cent, married into 

 another family (see Pedigree 33, I Generation). 



5. A third son, A. B. (eyes greenish ; hair dark brown and 

 kinky; otherwise would pass for white), skin 6, 35, 21, 38; 

 married a medium-colored woman, with a very broad, flat 

 nose; hair dark brown and very wavy; skin 35, 40, 13, 12. 

 They have three children (II n, 12, 13). 



