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darkly pigmented Eastern races and the white 

 segregation seems to occur in subsequent genera- 

 tions. Families are to be found in which one parent is 

 a pure white, while the other has arisen from the cross 

 between the dark and light in the first or some 

 subsequent generation. Such families may contain 



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Several children 

 all or O 



FIG.. 29. 



Pedigree of a family which originated from a cross between a Hindu and a European. 

 Black signs denote individuals as dark as average Hindus. Plain signs denote 

 quite fair members, while those with a dot in the centre are intermediate. 



children indistinguishable from pure blonds as well 

 as children of very dark and of intermediate shades. 

 As an example, I may give the following pedigree, 

 which was kindly communicated to me by an Anglo- 

 Indian friend (Fig. 29). The family had resided in 

 England for several generations, so that in this case 

 there was no question of a further admixture of black. 

 Most noticeable is the family produced by a very dark 



