"Heredity of albinism, by C.B. Davenport" (1)

868. Heredity of Albinism [photo] Robert Roy (Fig. 14) That albinism in rats, mice, guinea pigs, rabbits, etc., is inherited as a recessive trait is the experience of all breeders. That albinism in man follows the same law is a priori probable but it is obviously difficult to secure cases for what is the best test of recessiveness, viz., the exclusively albinic progeny of two albinic parents. Some years ago Mrs. Davenport and I recorded (American Naturalist, December, 1910) three pedigrees giving the progeny of the matings of two albinos, 221