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CHARLES MIDLO AND HAROLD CUMMINS 



HOMO 



The palmar dermatoglyphics are tabulated from four racial 

 series of unlike size : Germans, Cuban negroes, Comanclie 

 Indians, and Eskimos. ' The stated frequencies are direct 

 averages of the percentages obtained in respective collections, 

 not their weighted averages. Data for the plantar dermato- 

 glyphics (excepting the thenar, as explained below) are ob- 

 tained from four other collections, similarly combined: 

 European-Americans, Jews, North American Indians and 

 Liberian negroes. In the instance of the plantar hypothenar 

 only the first two of these series are represented. A series 

 of prints of the plantar thenar area alone was prepared 

 especially for the present study. These prints were obtained 

 from fifty male negroes, and the region printed conforms to 

 the thenar area as defined by Wilder ( '16). 



In view of the large number of human subjects the fre- 

 quencies of configuration types are stated in percentages. 



Manus (1176) 

 Figures 587-589 



H": (100.0). 



H p : (74.3) ; V (1.0) ; L (22.2) ; W (1.2) ; S (1.4). 



Th/I: O (82.9); V (8.0) ; L (2.6) ; LL (6.7). 



II: (93.0); V (2.4) ; L (4.8). 



Ill : (57.1) ; V (6.5) ; L (36.2) ; W (0.5). 



IV : (35.3) ; V (8.1) ; L (52.3) ; W (0.4) ; LL (4.0). 



589 



Figs. 587-589 Homo, manus. 



