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Sent From (Definite): Karl PearsonSent To (Definite): Edward NettleshipDate: 2 Aug 1911
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Sent fromKarl Pearson
2 Aug 1911
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Now my news as to Wee Tong (commonly called Chuk or Chuki!) she had early this morning two puppies. She was very dismal all yesterday & last night tore to pieces every bit of her bedding upset most things and shredded even the American cloth I had put over the asphalt floor. However she managed her pups all right, and is peaceful tonight, but won’t let me even handle the box to put the blanket straight. Nothing would induce her to leave them today for a minute and we had to feed her with a spoon. I have no doubt she will see things in better proportions tomorrow & that I shall be able to tell you the sex. They are clearly both albinos as far as the coat is concerned.
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Report from Low of Aberdeen this morning. There is absolutely no pigment in Tong’s skin or internal organs, except the liver which he thinks of pathological origin. He confirms absence of pigment in hair.
Report Bulloch?] same post, no pigment in scrotum of albino negro. He also finds as we have done only diffused pigment in hair.
Now these two cases are most remarkable. Coats finds in both pigment of the eye. It appears that dog & man are complete albinos of skin & hair but the eye by which we macroscopically judge albinism is pigmented microscopically in both!’
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Sent toEdward Nettleship
2 Aug 1911
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Now my news as to Wee Tong (commonly called Chuk or Chuki!) she had early this morning two puppies. She was very dismal all yesterday & last night tore to pieces every bit of her bedding upset most things and shredded even the American cloth I had put over the asphalt floor. However she managed her pups all right, and is peaceful tonight, but won’t let me even handle the box to put the blanket straight. Nothing would induce her to leave them today for a minute and we had to feed her with a spoon. I have no doubt she will see things in better proportions tomorrow & that I shall be able to tell you the sex. They are clearly both albinos as far as the coat is concerned.
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Report from Low of Aberdeen this morning. There is absolutely no pigment in Tong’s skin or internal organs, except the liver which he thinks of pathological origin. He confirms absence of pigment in hair.
Report Bulloch?] same post, no pigment in scrotum of albino negro. He also finds as we have done only diffused pigment in hair.
Now these two cases are most remarkable. Coats finds in both pigment of the eye. It appears that dog & man are complete albinos of skin & hair but the eye by which we macroscopically judge albinism is pigmented microscopically in both!’
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