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HEREDITY AND EUGENICS 



ditions, no doubt, further research would disclose 

 equalty extensive pedigrees of inheritance. Hope and 

 French (1908) describe a family in which persistent 

 hereditary oedema (sw^elling due to the effusion of 

 water}^ liquid into the connective tissue) is traced 



TABLE IV. 

 Comparative Table of Saltations. 



* See p. 215. 



I Chinese polo ponies. 



through five generations, appearing in thirteen out of 

 forty-two individuals. This w^as accompanied by 

 nervous attacks in many cases. The inheritance, as 

 shown by the pedigree, is in accord with that of a 

 Mendelian dominant, except that one normal female 



