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HARRIS H. WILDER. 



FIG. 7. FIG. 8. 



FIG. 7. A hypothenar pattern, in which both triradius a and triradius c are 



wanting, and the ridges escape in these two directions. This is type AC. 



FIG. 8. A hypothenar pattern, in which both triradius a and 



triradius b are wanting, making type AB. 



occurs or not, but there seems no reason why it should not. 

 This type (Fig. 9) should retain triradius a, the radiants of which 



FIG. 9. 



A hypothenar pattern, in which both triradius b and 

 triradius c are wanting, forming type BC. 



should embrace a lenticular figure, shaped like the two others, 

 but with its longitudinal axis running obliquely across the lower 

 outer corner of the palm and tapering down to the points where 

 one normally expects the two triradii, b and r. 



Thus, starting with the primitive whorl, and adding the three 



