6oExhibit I—K i
Exhibits lent by Mr. and Mrs. W. C. D. Whetham.
1. Pedigree showing the descent of Administrative Ability.
2. Wollaston Pedigree, showing the descent of Scientific Ability.
3. Pedigree showing the Mendelian descent of Eye-colour in
mankind.
THE RACIAL FORM OF NOSE AND ITS SEGREGATIVE
INHERITANCE.
By Geo. P. Mudge.
The form of a nose doubtless depends upon many factors. But
chief among them we may suppose are the length, breadth, and
angle of inclination of the nasal bones; the form, length, breadth,
and thickness of the nasal septum, and the degree of development
of the turbinal bones. The segregation and persistence in families
of a definite type of nose-form is a subject well worth further study.
The inheritance of this character from the Mendelian standpoint has
not yet been adequately studied. But as with eye-colour, so with
nose-form, we desire to know not only how alternative characters are
inherited among individuals of the same race, but how they are
transmitted among the offspring of mixed races.
ENGLISH V. GIPSY.
I am able in the photograph exhibited to show what appears
to be an undoubted transmission of a very prominent form of nose
from a grandmother to a grandson. The grandmother (on the right
of the photograph, who is now over 80 years of age) was the wife
of a gipsy and she herself came of gipsy stock. She and her
husband eventually settled in a small village in the West of
England. They had six children, namely, two sons and four
daughters. Of the two sons, one was fair in complexion and had
the “ wild ways and habits of the gipsy.” The other was dark in
complexion and married an English countrywoman of the district
in which his parents had settled. She was of fair complexion.
They are shown, as husband and wife, in the left-hand corner of the
central photograph. They have had four children, namely, three girls
(shown in the centre of the photograph) and one son (shown standing
by the right of his gipsy grandmother in the right corner of the
photograph). The gipsy grandmother has a very prominent type of nose. It
is characterised by three chief features : First, the broad base on
