50 HEREDITY OF SKIN COLOR IN NEGRO-WHITE CROSSES. 



a, 9 . L. A., 6 years. Hair now medium brown, formerly very 



liRht, curly; skin 35, 34, 15, 16. 

 3, cf . E. A., 4 months. Hair black and wavy; skin 35, 30, 13, sa. 



4i cf. W. W., 4 years. Hair black, with typical negro curl; skin 

 50, 25, 10, 15. 



5, 9.0. W., 3 years. Hair dark brown, curly; skin 41, 25, 10, 24. 



6, 9 . M. W., I year. Hair black, not very curly; skin 46, 34, 10, 10. 



7, 9 . K. S., 14 months. Skin 25, 20, 19, 36. 



Pedigree 4. T. Family. 

 I G€n. — I. — G. A black man (judging from an old daguerreotype he must 

 have been very dark) whose father's father was a Spaniard. 

 Married a woman who is now 84 years old, has been an in- 

 valid for 40 years, and is "yellowed" and tanned; her eyes 

 are dark brown and of negroid appearance; her hair was 

 black and has only a shght wave. Skin 23, 25, 10, 42. She 

 maintains that her parents were white Bermudians. This 

 pair has had eight daughters, all but one of whom are dead. 

 They were all mulattocs, like II i in color. 

 II Gen. — I, 9 . — G [T.]. Features good; hair black and slightly wavy; skin 3 5, 

 30, 10, 25. Married J. T., who has a broad nose, hair black 

 and very wavy; skin 17, 33, 10, 40 (taken in the evening). 

 His mother was dark-skinned and his father probably white, 

 but possibly mulatto. They had two children, of whom one 

 is dead (III i, 2). 

 Ill Gen. — I. — T., t 6 months. Very light mulatto. 



a, 9 . E. T., 10 years. Hair black, curly, not woolly. Was darker 

 "when born" than she is at present; skin 61, 23, 7, 9. 



Pedigree 6. W. Family. 



I G«n. — S., a bluc-cycd, very ligiit Fi mulatto man, whose father was a blue- 

 cjx'd English slave-owner and whose mother a light mulatto, 

 married an Fi mulatto woman whose father was an English- 

 man and mother black and probably a slave. They had four 

 children (II i, 2, 3, 4). 



11 Gen. — I, 9. M.S. [W.]. Eyes deep blue; hair black and kinky, but, when 

 a child, of tow color; skin 50, 13, 14, 23. Married a man, 

 now deceased, whose skin was approximately 78, 8, s, 9, and 

 had a daughter (III 1). (See fig. i.) 

 a, 9. S. S. [B.]. Eyes light brown; skin 55, 8, 15, 22; children dead 

 or scattered. 



3, cf. — S. A mulatto whose wife is dead, and child is III 2. 



4, cf . D. S. Eyes blue; hair straight; skin 30, 35, 18, 17. Married 



a "black" woman and had one child (III 3). 

 Ill <7f»i.— I, 9 . M. W. [M.]. Eyes dark brown; hair typically negroid;* skin 

 60, 15, 9, 16. By a man of about her own color she had an 

 illcgilitnate daughter who at 16 years has dark brown eyes, 



• The term " typical hair" is used in a technical sense for the curly hair of the "brown- 

 skinned " negroes of the Bermudas. The texture is coarse and it is very curly, but can 

 usually be combed and pulled out straight enough to braid in one or two " pigtails " behind, 

 or if it is done up on top of the head it makes a fairly respectable " bob." It seems to grow 

 longer than the black natives' hair and has a less obstinate wiry curl in it. — F. H. D. 



