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H. H. WILDER. 



Thus, if this last be taken as the fourth interdigital, and the 

 whorl of Fig. 20 be considered the third, which is very evident, 

 then, with the frequent occurrence of a whorl pattern on the first 

 interdigital, or hallucal, this leaves the second alone which has not 

 yet been seen in the primitive form, and the squeezed up condition 

 of this renders it very unlikely that it has in modern men any 







FIG. 21. Sole print of No. 712, in which the third interdigital pattern, a whorl, is 

 present, and large. Compare with Fig. 22, a tracing of the same sole. 



longer the chance to express itself. It is quite likely that some- 

 time the impress of a naked foot of some paleolithic man may be 

 found on the clay floor of a European cave, and it will be then 

 with the most breathless interest that we will look to see if the 

 second interdigital area was then as pressed laterally as now, or 

 whether it ever expressed itself in the form of a whorl. 



There is still some little doubt concerning the identity of the 

 proximal part of the foot, that proximal to the line of interdigital 



