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always drawn with very fine and soft ridges. The difference in 

 this feature between members of the European race, on the one 

 hand and Japanese and Chinese on the other is sufficient to serve 

 as a racial criterion, for the almost entire absence of any trace of 

 such a pattern in the latter, and the frequency of some trace in the 



FIG. 24. Left hypothenar pattern of the foot of No. 1107. In this boy who 

 is of the European-American race, the pattern has gone in the same way as in 

 the Negro boy (No. 23), and has produced the nearest pattern to a whorl that 

 has yet been found in any race. 



former is very striking, as is shown in tabular form in my recent 

 paper on the Chinese and Japanese (Journ. Phys. Anthrop., Vol. 

 V., No. 2, p. 203, 204). 



The calcar pattern completes the study of the feet. This is of 

 rare occurrence in any race, but has been observed in several 



