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spending 1 1 Id interdigital of the left hand of the same person 

 (Fig. 10) shows an indication of the same pattern, but not nearly 



FIG. 7. Tracing of the right hand of No. 1056, with a conspicuous third inter- 

 digital pattern. The left hand of this same individual shows a good whorl on the 

 same place (third interdigital) but smaller, and not so clear. Compare, for details 

 Figs. 8 and 9. 



as complete. Other cases of the occurrence of these interdigital 

 patterns, the 1 1 Id and the IVth, are shown in Figs. 1 1 and 12, and 

 include nearly every case I have met with. Occasionally, as in 

 Fig. ii the pattern is minute, but may still retain two out 

 of the three triradii; in other cases, the pattern is still more 

 shrunken, and can be identified only by its position on the palm, 

 as in Fig. 12. Even here, however, in its reduced state of one 



