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ANTECEDENTS. 



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PHYSICAL PECULIARITIES OF PARENTS. 



It has been frequently asserted that certain 

 physical peculiarities in the parents clash, and 

 that others combine happily in the offspring. I 

 therefore thought it well to make inquiries as 

 to the figure, complexion, colour of hair, height, 

 and other physical peculiarities of the fathers 

 and mothers of the scientific men. I also 

 asked about the temperaments, if they were 

 marked, but the answers to these were few. 



Tables showing the number of cases in which there has been 

 harmony, indifference, or contrast, between various physical 

 peculiarities of the two parents 



TEMPERAMENTS OF PARENTS, 

 (h = harmony, c = contrast). 



Summary Harmony, 10 cases ; contrast, 2 ; indifferent, 10. 

 Total, 22. 



