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lines which run across the heel region of the tread area diverge 

 from one another at a point near the tibial margin of the print, or 

 perhaps spread out along this border from a shorter portion of 

 the opposite side, and as this appearance often occurs where there 

 is some connection with a typical calcar pattern (either on the 

 other foot of a subject possessing this pattern or upon those 

 related to such a subject) it gives probability to the surmise 

 that we have here the vestige of a calcar pattern (Fig. 42). If 

 this be so it suggests that the tendency to form a calcar loop is 



ssue 



FIG. 38. Diagram of the relationships of family Wh . The squares 

 represent males, the circles females. A calcar pattern on the right heel is indicated 

 by a diagonal line drawn through the square or circle, from the right above to the 

 left below; one on the left heel by the opposite diagonal. Where both diagonals 

 are used there are two calcar patterns. A divergence, indicating a rudiment of the 

 pattern, is indicated by a black lower corner on the side of the divergence. A 

 shaded square or circle indicates that, through decease or otherwise, prints are not 

 available. 



much commoner than the realization, and that a certain config- 

 uration, although reduced by some unfavorable influence, is very 

 hard to entirely eradicate. 



To proceed now to the conditions obtaining in this family 

 (Wh ). The maternal grandfather E and the grandmother 5 

 show the usual type of heel, save that in the former there is in 

 each foot a noticeable divergence of the lines towards the inner 



