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for a primary classification, or one wliicli will divide individual records 

 into a large number of sets, as described above in the case of the other 

 two systems. In the former article in this magazine, I suggested this 

 hy applying names to the various areas marked off by the lines of inter- 

 pretation, and proposed a set of descriptive formulae based upon these 

 areas to be used in designating the course of the lines. / noiu wish to 

 suhsiitute for this a numerical system, the presentation of which in 



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Fig. 2. Same as Fig. 1, covered by Lines of Interpretation. Note slight differences in 

 the wrinkles in Figs. 1 and 2, although taken of the same palm at the same time. 



the form of a hey explains itself (Fig. 3). In this, each triradius and 

 intermediate area is furnished with a number, the latter being desig- 

 nated by the odd, and the former by the even, numbers, and the course 

 of a given main line may he simply and accurately described by giving 

 the number corresponding to the point at which it terminates. To the 

 extensive outer border where the use of a single number would be often 

 indefinite, three numbers are assigned, 3, 4 and 5, although where com- 

 plete accuracy is not needed the symbol (for open) may be used, 

 signifying merely that a given line passes out at some point along the 

 free margin between the outer carpal line and the outer digital one of 

 the little finger. Of these three numbers, 4 is used to designate a 



