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One and twenty of the noble family of Scipio 

 attained to consular rank, and it was a daughter 

 of one of these who bore those brilliant orators 

 and splendid friends of popular liberty the 

 Gracchii. Among the lower animals the blood 

 of such horses as Eclipse and Lexington, of 

 Hambletonian and Denmark has shown not 

 only power but immense persistency in shaping 

 the three types of thoroughbreds, trotters, and 

 saddle horses. 



I might go on thus multiplying instances, of 

 singular instructiveness in some cases, all point- 

 ing to the wide scope and the minuteness of 

 influence of the transmission of individual or 

 family peculiarities. But I must be content 

 with the few I have cited, only pausing to call 

 especial attention to the frequent abeyance in 

 one generation of a quality peculiar to the 

 opposite sex which at once appears in the prod- 

 uce of that animal of the contrary sex. This 

 is surely a very beautiful illustration of hered- 

 ity. No more apposite example can be given 

 than that of Comet Halley Jr., a Short-horn 

 bull of a good old family of excellent milkers, 

 who carried on the milking qualities of his dam 

 in a remarkable degree to his calves. Nor was 

 he more than a very prominent example of a 

 class. It is a frequent occurrence to see Jersey 

 bulls advertised as "butter bulls," which shows 

 the accepted view that bulls whose dams were 



