BOTH PARENTS BLENDER. 



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Leo Family. (Fig. 23 i 



I 1, J. L., very slender, died of pneumonia. His wife, I 2. at 8 ri is 

 slender and measures 141 cm. in stocking feet; Bhe baa two 



are slender. There are 5 children: 



II 4, $ , was 183 cm. tall and very slender; he died at n;* years of catarrh 

 of stomach. 



II 5, s , was short and slender; he died at 52 years of Bright's di- 

 ll 6, 9, single, is 165 cm. tall and weighs 51.7 kg. (65 in< I ill 



pounds) ; index 1.9 (27), obviously slender. 

 II 3, 9 , slender. 

 II 7, $ , always slender. 

 So far we have only slender persons to deal with. Now enters a chanf 



II 3 married a fleshy man who has a fleshy Bister; all 3 children are fleshy. 



Also II 7 married a woman whose index is 86.2 kg./114 cm., or 6.6 I 190 60 



inches, or 53). She has always been fleshy (except during an attack 



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Fit;. 23. — Pedigree chart showing distribution <>f build in the Leo Family. 



anemia). She had both slender and fleshy sibs. Their only child iIII L) 

 is a girl of 9 years. Her relative chest-girth is 57 per cent instead of the 

 49 per cent expected at that age; that is, she is fleshy. Thus the two mar- 

 riages of this slender stock into fleshy lines result altogether in A children, 



all fleshy; indicating dominance of fleshiness. 



II 16, S , at 50 years is tall and slender. He has 1 slender and I t!« ahy 

 and very fleshy sibs. His father. I 5, was slender; his mother was short and 

 weighed 86 kg. (190 pounds). He married II 17, a Blender woman; 

 2 living children are tall and slender. Thus II 16 apparently did not carry 

 the gene for fleshiness from his mother (73: 676 1. 



Lou-2 Family. 



A family of Irish and English extraction, living mostly in Ne* York 

 State. The Father, who is a doctor, suffered in middle age from "nen 

 breakdown, indigestion, and stomach trouble"; is living at •><> y< nd haa 



the formula 155/73 inches; build 2.0 (29). His three brothers, 

 living, are tall. Their father, who BUrvives, is a tanner and Buffered m 

 middle age from "nervousness." Their mother dad from conaumpt 

 "caused from taking care of son who died from sanx 



