No. 527] SKIN PIGMENTATION IN MAN 



647 



Wha.-1 | 9 MS ^ \ f f f 



Whi.— 1 I 3 f £ f f f f 



Win. 7 f f M f I ~~ 



Totals (378)1 348 j 25 | 5 I j 1 i i 



77 families. 



sist of two blond, one intermediate and one brunet off- 

 spring, the new record gave the mother as intermediate 

 instead of blond, and the brnnet child as light brunet or 

 intermediate, but somewhat darker than the mother. 

 These two families and a third (which is inaccessible) 

 comprising five blonds and four brunets, were therefore 

 struck out from the blond X blond table, leaving only 

 four brunets, or about 3 per cent., among the 135 off- 

 spring, recorded in Table Ia. Tables Ia and Ib give 9 

 brunets among 513 children, or 1.75 per cent. Keeping 

 in mind the probability of occasional blunders on the 

 part of the recorders, it seems doubtful if these nine 

 cases are properly included. The conclusion seems 

 justified that when both parents hare blond complexion 

 or fair skin all of their children will have a similar fair 

 skin. 



(b) Brunet X Blond (fair) (Table II).— The off- 

 spring of dark by light skin color is of importance be- 

 cause it should throw additional light on the question of 

 dominance, if any. The families of two such parents are 



