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little proximal to the ball (Figs. 13, 14, 15) but also the second 

 loop further back (Figs. 16 and 17), and probably also the enor- 

 mous figure found in the middle of the arch in the three special 

 cases mentioned (Figs. 18, 19, 20). Aside from these three 



FIGS. 24 and 25. Prints of the two soles of the same individual (Coll. No. 199), 

 in which an inward rolling of the feet reveals on both sides a rudimentary thenar 

 pattern. 



elements there is also the calcar pattern, which, aside from a single 

 family, in which it occurs in father, mother and two of the three 

 children, I have seen but twice. (See below, Part VI.) 



Now, at the present state of our knowledge it is impossible to 



