1886.] 



Family Likeness in Eye-colour. 



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Table III. — Sixteen Groups of Families, those being grouped together 

 in whom the distribution of Light, Hazel, and Dark Eye-colour 

 among their Parents and Grandparents is alike. Each Group 

 contains at least Twenty Brothers or Sisters. 



Eye-colours of the 





Number of the light eye- 

 coloured children. 



Parents. 



Grandparents. 



Total 

 children. 





Calculated. 

















Observed. 





























Light. 



Hazel. 



Dark. 



Light. 



Hazel. 



Dark. 







I. 



II. 



III. 



2 

 2 

 2 

 2 



i 

 l 

 l 

 i 

 l 

 l 

 l 

 l 

 l 

 l 



1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 



i 



2 



1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 



4 

 3 

 3 

 2 

 2 

 3 

 3 

 2 

 2 

 2 

 3 

 2 

 2 

 1 

 1 

 1 



1 

 "l 

 1 



2 



i 



"l 

 l 



i 

 l 



2 



"l 



2 

 1 

 1 



2 

 1 



3 

 2 

 2 



183 

 53 

 92 

 27 

 22 

 62 

 42 

 31 

 49 

 31 

 76 

 66 

 27 

 20 

 22 

 24 



174 

 46 

 88 

 26 

 11 

 52 

 30 

 28 

 35 

 25 

 45 

 30 

 15 

 9 

 8 

 9 



161 



47 

 81 

 24 

 6 

 48 

 33 

 24 

 38 

 24 

 44 

 38 

 16 

 12 

 13 

 14 



163 

 44 

 67 

 18 

 12 

 51 

 31 

 24 

 28 

 21 

 55 

 38 

 18 

 8 

 11 

 12 



172 

 43 

 79 

 22 



6 

 51 

 32 

 20 

 34 

 23 

 46 

 35 

 16 



9 

 11 

 10 

















629 



623 



601 



614 



