The San Francisco call., 1904-02-06
THE INFLUENCE OF HEREDITY.
~ ROFESSOR FRANK w. BANCROFT of til
r. University of California has just made remarka

~ ROFESSOR FRANK w. BANCROFT of the
r. University of California has just made remarka-
bic contribution scientific knowledge by deter
mining the ratio III which pigmentaton in rabbits is in
hcrited. In other words given pebald bunny and
calico jack and Professor Bancroft will compute to
the decimal part OF inch just how their progeny will
be striped rnged with natures dun shades He
redity reduced formula OF logarithmic precision
i'll the of rabbits
Hardly month passes over this wise world of ours
but deeper and keener solution of the riddle OF life
is pronounced and to the to the
everlasting why" by just that much Our scientists
with their of urchns and their verebrae of sala
manders hewing the way that millennium OF
thought when everything will be movable All honor
to these pioneers of knowledge
There is and entirely untrodden field open how
to the scape and the microsco It's Importance
growing with each The possibilities
for remarkable achievements therein The
hardy adventurer who first his foot in this terra in
cognta will only win the paudits of the erudite but
the encomums of a grateful nation Severe his task
but manifold the rewards 1t is to trace the effects of
heredty the Democratic party it is to prognosticate
the prodigy which is to be born OF the St Louis
ventior.
The Berkeley professor had but for the
prenatal influences of two rabbits determine whether
the young bunny their offspring to be of paterna
smitude or favoring the disa side of the household
He was sure that it would be rabbit Equally
certain he that it would be possessed of brain,
though the humble cerebelum of the rabbit kind
and that it would be endowed with the power to live
and have being Not only that but the college
scientist could chart nicely the delicate blending of
light shade which would characterize the future ad
diton the rodent world.
Well might the trembling scientist gaze with fear upon
the stupendous task OF formulating the results of pre-
natal influences in the Democratic platform which
be. First there the nsisent influence of the Jefer
sonian Democracy, which has~been sending its strain
down through the generations, suddenly to be made
manifest in that wild sport of nature, the Kansas City
platform Added to this blood infusion there is the
rank reverson primitive type personhed in William
Jennings Bryan, lately returned from appearing before
all the crowned heads of Europe
The shadow of free silver and the haunting vision of
wildcat Popocracy appear the decately adjusted mi
croscope which is turned upon this field Add these
hereditary influences the Sphinx shadow of a<Cleveland
the OF the Old Guard the prophetic utterances of
German and the notably shy and unobtrusive advances
of Hearst-a of these entering into the spawn of the
St Louis convcntion-and who the widest
light as the those birth throes Who will
dare to that this thing which IS born will have
the stamina, inherent within its conglomerate SELF to
survive even until weaving time in November?
With ali respect the erudition of the Berkeley
scientist be granted that his task chds play
vivisector and obstctrician.