No. 601] CHARLES OTIS WHITMAN 



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standing of the evolution of their color markings. He 

 usually had about 500 individuals, representing about 40 

 wild species, in dovecotes surrounding his house. He 

 hybridized nearly 40 species, most of which had never 

 been crossed before. His work included the phylogeny 

 of pigeons, instinct and animal behavior, voice, fertility 

 and the nature of sex. 



Professor Whitman suffered considerably from indi- 

 gestion for some years before his death. He contracted 

 a heavy cold while caring for his pigeons and died sud- 

 denly, December 6, 1910, at the age of 67, of pneumonia, 

 the same disease that his mother died of at the age of 57. 



We have now to consider some of tlie personal charac- 

 teristics of Charles 0. Whitman, and their distribution in 

 his family. 



First, white hair. Charles Whitman's hair turned 

 white unusually early. Morse quotes Judge Clarence 

 Hale of Portland as saying that his hair was perfectly 

 white when in college but his class portrait (Fig. 4) shows 

 his hair still dark. At the age of 39 (Fig. 5) the hair is 

 quite white. His father's hair turned gray early ; Charles 's 

 brother at 49 has very gray hair. Early graying is ap- 

 parently a "Whitman trait." 



2. Wave in hair is shown by his father (Fig. 10) and 

 as a dominant trait is doubtless inherited from this side. 



3. Xostiil. His father had broad nostrils (Fig. 10), but 

 the ridge is carried apically beyond the level of the nos- 

 tril. In Charles, as in his mother (Fig. 8), the apical 

 knob was lacking, hence the nostrils appeared unusually 

 full. 



4. The lower lip is thick, especially near the median 

 plane. His mother's portrait (Fig. 8) shows an excep- 

 tionally broad lower lip and this is exactly reproduced in 

 her daughter, Adrianna. The mother's father (Fig. 6) 

 also has a broad lower lip. Charles gets the breadth of 

 lower lip from his mother's side and its restriction to the 

 middle of this lip (Fig. 9) is doubtless due to another 

 factor. 



5. The for.'licnd is broad and full (Fig. 12) ; doubtless a 



