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SKIN PIGMENTATION IN MAN 



The second child was very dark, darker than either 

 father or mother." B. "is a mulatto and his first wife 

 was a mulatto. Their first child, a girl, was . . . just the 

 complexion of the father and mother. The second child, 

 a boy, was very dark." C. "is a mulatto, and his wife is 

 also a mulatto. Their first child, a girl, is darker than 

 either mother or father; not black, however. The sec- 

 ond, a boy, is much lighter than either mother or father ; 

 almost white. The third, a girl, is a distinct blond with 

 Saxon eyes and complexion." 



Professor T. B. Williams, of Hampton Institute, 

 writes : 



I know two large families in which both parents in each family are 

 practically white. All of the children are like the parents, practically 

 white. In fact sonic of them have left home and are "passing for 



These cases are important as indicating that the lower 

 grades of pigmentation do not produce the higher grades 

 (except that some mulatto tints produce darker children 

 by extraction of the white). Professor Williams con- 

 tinues : 



and eveAas blue eyes, while theirs are dark. The younger child is 

 darker than the parents, though not "black, or nearly so." I could 

 multiply these illustrations may times. There are, too, settlements of 

 mulatto people who for some generations have taken pains not to 

 many among darker colored people but have trone on intermarrying 

 yet I have never seen a black person as a result of these unions. 



In addition to these data from colored people we have 

 the following from Professor H. V. Wilson, of the Uni- 

 versity of North Carolina. The family was reported to 

 him by a physician. 



Parents, fairly light mulattoes. Woman virtuous. Several children. 

 All children but one, the ordinary type of mulatto; characteristics inter- 



