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about four inches. He had a peculiar cavity also in the formation of his 
teeth. In the lower jaw there were but five, the canine teeth and molars 
being almost totally* wanting. The gums, where they should have been, were 
a hard, fleshy ridge ; and, judging from appearances, there was no alveolar 
process. He married when twenty-two years of age, the King of Ava having 
made him the present of a wife. By this woman he had four children, all 
girls. In the form of the three first there was nothing remarkable. In the 
case of the youngest child, however, at six months old, hair began to appear 
all over the ears ; and, at one year old, on difierent parts of the body. Like 
her father, too, she was deficient both in her canine and molar teeth. As she 
grew older, the whole of her body was more or less covered with hair. Except 
the extreme upper lip, no part of the face was visible. The nose, densely 
covered with hair, curving out and pendent like the wisps of a fine Skye 
terrier’s coat, had a most strange appearance. Strange as it may seem, she 
married and had two sons. The elder boy had nothing abnormal about him. 
But the youngest, who was only an infant when the account was given, evi- 
dently took after his mother and grandfather ; the child s ear being, at 
fourteen months, full of long silky floss, and having, even then, a moustache 
and beard.” * 
43. The case of the English family (described by Lawrence, 
in his Lectures on Man,f also by Prichard, in his Physical 
History of Mankind %) equally exhibits the transmission of an 
abnormal variety through three generations. The grandfather 
of this family was presented, I believe, as a boy in 1731, before 
the Royal Society. He was born in Suffolk, and named 
Edward Lambert ; his peculiarity consisting in a skin thickly 
covered with warty projections which were periodically 
moulted. In a paper belonging to the Philosophical Trans- 
actions of 1814 § we read : — 
“ It was not easy to think of any sort of skin or natural integument that 
exactly resembled it. Some compared it to the bark of a tree ; others thought 
it looked like seal-skin ; others, like the skin of an elephant, or the skin 
about the legs of the rhinoceros ; and some took it to be like a number of 
warts uniting and overspreading the whole body. The bristly parts, which 
were chiefly about the belly and flanks, looked and rustled like the bristles 
or quills of a hedgehog shorn off within an inch of the skin.” 
44. In a subsequent account, given twenty-four years after- 
wards, this youth, then grown to man’s estate, presented 
exactly the same appearance. He was at that time exhibited 
in London as the Porcupine Man, This account goes on to state 
* See Latham, as above, vol. i. pp. 200-203 ; some parts of this quotation 
being condensed rather than verbatim. 
t Pp. 306, 307. X Vol. i. p. 349. § No. 424. 
