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and in the end states that he is inclined to regard this 

 as an example of the inheritance of acquired defect, for 

 the following reasons : The limits between the lobule 

 and the tail of the helix are never so sharply defined as 

 in this case. The cleft is situated too posteriorly to 

 correspond to the line of fusion of the fifth and sixth 

 tubercles, and the tubercle for the antitragus is, in the 

 embryo, some distance from the external margin of the 

 ear. 



It is unnecessary to discuss the reasons advanced by 



A B 



FIG. 97. A, pinna of Mother showing the rent in the lobule 

 where the earring was torn away ; B, pinna of Son with 

 congenital defect. (After Schmidt.) 



Schmidt in support of this view, for they are nullified by 

 some observations made on this case by Professor His, 

 in a subsequent number of the Correspondenz-Blatt fur 

 Anthropologie (March, 1889), to the effect that the 

 defect in the ear of the son not only differs from that 

 in the mother in its general character, but occupies a 

 different position in the lobule, as is easily seen in com- 

 paring the two pinnae. 



