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presents intellectually, more than the others, either the pecu- 

 liarities of the father or of the mother ; and it is to be noticed 

 that the first-born son takes more after the mother, and the 

 first-born daughter more after the father. Gradually the chil- 

 dren become more robust, physically stronger, frequently 

 plainer and more plump ; the qualities of both parents become 

 more mixed, and a decided repetition of the parents or grand- 

 parents becomes rarer." 



It deserves to be noticed that the cases in which the influence 

 of the father predominates are not so frequent as contrary 

 instances. The influence of the mother on the intellectual 

 nature of the offspring seems so predominating, that Buffon 

 considered it as exclusive : hence the vulgar expression 

 ( ' motherwit," not " fatherwit." The head of the cross-breed, 

 however, takes chiefly after the father. 1 The physical qualities 

 of the father generally predominate among cross-breeds. 2 This 

 is the case among the Mestizoes in the Philippines, whether 

 the father be a European or a Chinese ; 3 among the Mulattoes 

 on the Sandwich islands. 4 The Negro produces with a white 

 woman a more Negro-like child than the white man with a 

 Negress. 5 Among the children of Mulattoes themselves, with 

 few exceptions, descendants of white fathers and Negro 

 mothers, the white blood predominates, 6 so that the children 

 even of a Mulatto woman and a Negro possess the colour of 

 the mother. Primer says that the offspring of a Negro and a 

 white woman, though rarely viable, approach the European type 

 sooner than that of a Negress and a white man. Burmeister 

 considers the Negro character as predominating in Mulattoes. 

 The boys have the hair often frizzly, then it becomes perfectly 

 Negro-like; among the girls it is frequently straight. The 

 shape of the head resembles more that of the Negro than that 

 of the European; the forehead is low, the occiput short. The 

 cranium generally is small, the beard stronger than in the 



1 Heusinger, " Vgl. Physiol.," p. 250. 



2 Spix and Martius, " Reise," p. 1183. 



3 Mallat, ii, p. 134. 



4 Bennet, " Narr. of a whaling voyage/' i, p. 240, 1840. 



5 Nott and Gliddon, " Types of mankind/' p. 373, 1854. 



6 Lyell, " Second voyage." 



