The Persian tom-cat died many years ago, and
was the only one in the district, so, although I cannot be
absolutely positive, still I think this case is really as
stated."
Breeders of Bedlington terriers wish to breed dogs with as
powerful jaws as possible. In order to accomplish this they put
the Bedlington terrier bitch first to a bull-terrier dog, and get
a mongrel litter which they destroy. They now put the bitch to a
Bedlington terrier dog and get a litter of puppies which are
practically pure, but have much stronger jaws than they would
otherwise have had, and also show much of the gameness of the
bull-terrier, thus proving that physiologic as well as anatomic
characters may be transmitted in this way.
After citing the foregoing examples, Blaikie directs his
attention to man, and makes the following interesting remarks:--
"We might expect from the foregoing account of telegony amongst
animals that whenever a black woman had a child to a white man,
and then married a black man, her subsequent children would not
be entirely black. Dr. Robert Balfour of Surinam in 1851 wrote to
Harvey that he was continually noticing amongst the colored
population of Surinam 'that if a negress had a child or children
by a white, and afterward fruitful intercourse with a negro, the
latter offspring had generally a lighter color than the parents.
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