I'AI.M AND SOLE STUDIES. 



perfect Whorl, like the pattern we commenced with while below 

 this there is a complete loop. I have looked at this anomalous 

 pattern again and again, without coming any nearer to any ex- 

 planation. I have therefore given it as it is, an actual pattern 

 which cannot be explained, and the only one out of several 



FIG. 22. A wholly excentric hypothenar region found in the left hand of a 

 Japanese. The pattern is double, but instead of each consisting of a loop, de- 

 generate or otherwise, one of them is a loop while the other is a whorl, the type 

 from which we began in the explanation of all double types. It is possible, on the 

 other hand, that we may have here another explanation in which we have to begin 

 with two whorls, divided by a triradius, like the one given here. 



thousands. The explanation may occur to some one who reads 

 this paper, or it may well represent a new type, which will re- 

 quire some new modification of the primary pattern ; yet it may 

 hardly lead to the abandonment of the fundamental plan of a 

 pattern, which certainly rests upon too much that is fundamental 

 to suggest so radical a procedure. 



