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of the mother's sister, are in any way like those of the father and 

 son. 



The second pair (Figs. 33 and 34) is of still more value as an illus- 

 tration of direct inheritance, for here the palm of the father presents 



FIG. 33. Print of the right hand of a white male; Coll. No. 99. 



two unusual features: (i) the reduction of line C, with its triradius, 

 as described above, and (2) the narrowed, and nearly suppressed, 

 hypothenar loop, with two triradii, and with its pattern a loop 



