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Corresponding age & Prepotency I must allude to this for horses tooth

Hereditary influence (p. 135)

p 140 cases from Blumenbach of injuries being hereditary

p 142 M. Danney on crossing making new Breeds of Rabbits -Perhaps see worth looking to. X

p 143. Girou relates man slept on back with right leg crossed, child did same

p 146. Fact quoted from Orton's Lectures of peculiarities going with male

p 149. case of wolf & dog crossed by Marquis S. Beaufort, in which crosses in same litter, Father gave external characters in one & mother in other, but, the tail as it were transposed & in disposition resembled the parent to which it was unlike externally.

See article in Dict. Class. d'Hist Nat. I. G. St Hilaire. vol X p. 121.

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p. 150 In transmission of deformities, as extra fingers sometime male, sometimes female preponderates

p 154. Think "atavism" accounted for by child having them, but being masked. (mere verbiage)

p 158. Alludes t "Potency of Race or individual"

p. 155. Girou fd. in sheep that the Roussilon breed resisted so energetically the merino cross, that after 25 years successive crossing it still reappeared, whereas the Avignon sheep had long ceased to be distinguishable from the Merino sheep. —

p 156. says no variation is chance —"the unlikeness to parents consists in a new combination of old elements.—

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p. 158. striking cases from Moreau & Esquirol of insanity coming on at same time in child & offspring.

Quotes with high approval Herbert Spencer Principles of Psychology who brings in for first time heritage

M. Gosse has lately written to show artificial Deformations of skull are hereditary.—

Naudin p. 149 Datura stramium wonderfully prepotent.

[Lewes, George Henry.] 1856. Hereditary influence, animal and human. Westminster Review 66 (July): 135-162. Text
See Darwin to Hooker Correspondence vol. 6: 191.