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NATURAL INHERITANCE. 



Table 2. 



Parent Seeds and their Produce. 



The proportionate number of sweet peas of different sizes, produced by parent 

 seeds also of different sizes, are given below. The measurements are those of 

 their mean diameters, in hundredths of an inch. 



Diameter 

 of Parent 





Diameters of Filial Seeds. 





Total. 



Mean Diameter 

 of Filial Seeds. 























Seed. 



Under 

 15. 



15- 



16- 



17- 



18- 



19- 



20- 



Above 

 21- 





Observed 



Smoothed 



21 



22 



8 



10 



18 



21 



13 



6 



2 



100 



17-5 



17-3 



20 



23 



10 



12 



17 



20 



13 



3 



2 



100 



17-3 



17-0 



19 



35 



16 



12 



13 



11 



10 



2 



1 



100 



16-0 



16 6 



18 



34 



12 



13 



17 



16 



6 



2 







100 



. 16-3 



16-3 



17 



37 



16 



13 



16 



13 



4 



1 







100 



15-6 



16-0 



16 



34 



15 



18 



16 



13 



3 



1 







100 



16'0 



157 



15 



46 



14 



9 



11 



14 



4 



2 







100 



15-3 



15-4 



This point is so low in the scale, that I possess less evidence than I 

 desired to prove the bettering of the produce of very small seeds. 

 The seeds smaller than Q were such a miserable set that I could 

 hardly deal with them. Moreover, they were very infertile. It did, 

 however, happen that in a few of the sets some of the Q seeds 

 turned out very well. 



If I desired to lay much stress on these experiments, I could make 

 my case considerably stronger by going minutely into other details, 

 including confirmatory measurements of the foliage and length of 

 pod, but I do not care to do so. 



D. 



GOOD AND BAD TEMPER IN ENGLISH FAMILIES. 1 



One of the questions put to the compilers of the Family Records 

 spoken of in page 72, referred to the "Character and Tempera- 

 ment " of the persons described. These were distributed through 



1 Reprinted after slight revision from Fortnightly Review, July, 1887. 



