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HARRIS HAWTHORNE WILDER. 



data this question cannot be definitely decided. Certain brothers 

 and sisters of most of the four grandparents, E, S, 0, and Is, 

 are still living, but to obtain the necessary data from them would 

 be difficult; there is more to expect from the coming generation, 

 the offspring of /, M, and L, and of their cousins, Sm and Je, 

 Ra, and U, but for that several years must elapse. 



Leaving the past and the future as open questions, we return 



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FIG. 42. Heel patterns of the only relatives of C which show even a rudiment of 

 a calcar pattern; the father, E, and the sister, I. 



to the facts here presented, and these are, that a man with a calcar 

 loop on both feet married a woman with a loop and a divergence, and 

 that, of their three children, one has a loop on both feet, and two have 

 a loop on one foot and a divergence on the other, the loop being on 

 the right foot in one case and on the left in the other. When this 

 record is considered in connection with the fact that, aside from 

 this family, but four loops are known to science (that is, in per- 

 haps 1,000-1,500 individuals of all races) the direct inheritance of 

 this condition by the mating of XX X rX is beyond question. 



