No. 553] A FAMILY OF SPOTTED NEGROES 



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as occur among mice, rabbits, guinea-pigs, cats, dogs, 

 cattle and horses. Our experience with these animals 

 would lead us to expect that the homozygote in this strain 

 of spotted negroes would be either wholly white, that is, 

 with snow-white skin and hair but with colored eyes, or 

 spotted but with pigmented areas still further reduced in 

 extent than in the heterozygote. Some student of genetics 

 generations hence may be able to answer the question. 

 To this end we shall deposit with the Eugenics Record 

 Office at Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y., our original data 

 including the correct names and present whereabouts of 

 these people. 



Three of the spotted children of this family, of whom 

 we have been unable to secure pictures, are undoubtedly 

 identical with 4 4 The Three Striped Graces" figured 

 (Plate VV) and described (p. 248) by Pearson, Nettle- 

 ship and Usher in "A Monograph of Albinism in Man," 

 London, 1911, after Hutchinson, British Medical Journal, 

 June, 1910, p. 1480. The names given by Pearson, et al, 

 for the three individuals are ''Mary, Rose and Fanny," 

 which agree sufficiently well with individuals VII. VIII 

 and X, of our table. Our own information obtained from 

 members of the family indicates that at present VII is in ^ 

 America, while VIII, X and XIV together with the 

 grandchild, Beatrice, are in Europe. 



TABLE 



Mb. and Mrs. S. A., the Fobmee a Normal 

 the Latter a Spotted Negro 



Grandchildren 



spotted, 1. Spotted son (dead) ; 



2; 2. Spotted, Jim (pigment 



Figs. 1 and 4; 



3. Spotted, Robert (pigme 



light), taller son, Fij 



4. Spotted, Lillie (pigmei 



