254 NATURAL INHERITANCE. 



found wherever the book is opened, relate to the same family. The 

 open book is ruled so as to resemble the accompanying schedule, 

 which is drawn on a reduced scale on page 251. The printing within 

 the compartments of the schedule does not appear in the MS. books, 

 it is inserted here merely to show to whom each compartment refers. 

 It will be seen that the paternal ancestry are described in the left 

 page, the maternal in the right. The method of arrangement is 

 quite orderly, but not altogether uniform. To avoid an unpleasing 

 arrangement like a tree with branches, and which is very wasteful 

 of space, each grandparent and his own two parents are arranged in 

 a set of three compartments one above the other. There are, of 

 course, four grandparents and therefore four such sets in the 

 schedule. Reference to the examples A andB pages 252 and 253 will 

 show how these compartments are filled up. The rest of the Schedule 

 explains itself. The children of the pedigree are written below 

 the compartment assigned to the mother and her brothers and 

 sisters ; the spare spaces are of much occasional service, to receive 

 the overflow from some of the already filled compartments as well 

 as for notes. It is astonishing how much can be got into such a 

 schedule by writing on ruled paper with the lines one-sixth of an 

 inch apart, which is not too close for use. Of course the writing 

 must be small, but it may be bold, and the figures should be written 

 very distinctly. 



For a less ambitious attempt, including the grandparents and 

 their fraternity, but not going further back, the left-hand page 

 would suffice, placing "Children" where "Father" now stands, 

 " Father's Father " for " Father," and so on throughout. 



