94 HEREDITY OF SKIN COLOR IN NEGRO-WHITE CROSSES. 



7, cf. H. D. Hair dark brown, straight; skin 24, 45, 16, 15. 



8, cf. V. P., 3 years. Eyes dark brown; hair medium brown with 



a hidden reddish tinge and very curly; skin 20, 47, 18, 15, 



9, cT. A. P., gmonths. Eyes black ; hair brown, fine ; skin 25,40,19,16. 



Pedigree 49. N. Family. 



(A colored family in which only the mother by her curly hair shows the 



colored blood.) 



I Gen. — Six children were bom of a brown-eyed man of colored parentage, 

 his skin being probably N 15 to N 20, and of a gray-eyed 

 woman, probably with a clear olive complexion. She was 

 the daughter of a pure white man and a very fair woman 

 with colored blood. 



1-4. Four children had gray eyes, light brown hair and 

 no skin pigmentation. 



5. One son had brow^n eyes, skin somewhat pigmented, 

 so that he could not pass for white. 



6. Another son, N., who has gray eyes, Hght brown hair, 

 and no N skin pigmentation, married an olive-skinned 

 woman, not more than N 8, with dark brown hair that is 

 coarse and strongly inclined to curl. Her paternal great- 

 great-grandfather was a salve-owner, and it is supposed that 

 the original cross with black was by him. Her paternal 

 grandfather was a dark man and his wife colored. Her 

 father was colored, but her mother a white woman with 

 blue-gray eyes and brown hair. Mrs. N.'s two fair brothers 

 and four fair sisters pass for white, but her dark sister and 

 three dark brothers can not. She has had three children, 

 all of whom are practically white. 



II Gen. — I, cf . Eyes dark gray; hair dark brown, straight; fair creamy skin. 



2, 9 . Eyes dark gray; hair medium brown, inclined to be wavy; 



brunet skin, a little darker than II i. 



3, cf^. 2 years. Eyes blue gray; hair golden, slightly wavy: very 



fair skin. 



Pedigree 50. S. Family. 



I Gen. S., one of a fraternity of six, three of whom were fair and three 



dark, has curly black hair and skin probably N 25. His 

 father was colored and his mother was a woman of Irish 

 and colored blood, whose photograph showed fairly good 

 features and straight hair. He married a dark brown- 

 eyed, straight dark brown-haired woman with an ordinary 

 brunet complexion. She is the daughter of a probably not 

 pure Jew (see Pedigree 45, I Generation) and a woman with 

 a little colored blood. They have five children. 

 11 Gen. — I, 9. Dark brown, decidedly curly hair; shows colored blood; 

 skin say N 15, R 25. 



2, cf. Nearly straight or perfectly straight hair; much tanned, 



brunet skin ; a little darker than his mother. 



3, cf*. Nearly straight or perfectly straight hair; much tanned, 



brunet skin ; a little darker than his mother. 



