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not the same as the results recorded by Davenport and 

 Davenport in America but, in general, they are the re- 

 verse. When two curly-haired Filipinos are united in 

 marriage the chances are that all their children will 

 have curly hair. Two wavy-haired parents may have 

 straight, wavy or curly-haired offspring. Two straight- 

 haired parents may have children with either straight, 

 wavy or curly hair and the proportion of straight-haired 

 children will probably he large. When one parent has 

 curly hair and the other straight, the greater part of 

 the offspring will have straight liair if the father's hair 

 is straight, but if the father's hair is curly, the propor- 

 tion of curly-haired children will be larger. But the 

 families of straight- and wavy-haired parents will prob- 

 ably have curly as well as straight and wavy hair, for 



Note. — Wherever I may have used the construction 

 and wording previously used by Davenport and Daven- 

 port, it was done to emphasize the fact that the results 

 of the observations on the hair-form of the Filipino are 

 different from those found by the two authors in Amer- 

 ica. I have reversed the terms in applying their lan- 

 guage to the facts. 



A large number of records would be desirable, both 

 of Filipinos and of Europeans, and records of Negrito 

 and Malay or Negro and European would be especially 

 desirable. The hereditary reactions of different kinds 

 of straight and curly hair may differ, but this could be 

 determined only by more numerous records. Let us 

 hope the records will be forthcoming. 



