IWLM AM) SOL/'J /MJ'RESSJONS. 



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Tlic order of ;ll•^;lll,^■^'lll(■lll I'oi' r;icli posilioii woulil 1)(> naturally to 

 consider the signs of the |iatterns as ])recedL'nt to zero, an ai'rangement 

 which it will l)e noticed, has been followed in the above list. A rudi- 

 ment, like CTalton's descriptive suthxes, is disregarded in the arrange- 

 ment, and counts like other zeroes. 



Fig. 5. Print of a Right Sole [Collection No. 112] showing a High Degree of Com- 

 plexity, and presenUng ditticuUies In formulation. There are two lower tnradii, probably the 

 first and second, in which D and i? [IV and II] terminate respectively: the triradius of Une 

 C[=III] is beyond the limit of the print and its location is in part conjectural ; the second 

 and fourth digital lines curve downward across the palm. 



Morphologically the same pattern, i. e., one in a given position, 

 may differ considerably in regard to its mode of formation, the pres- 

 ence or absence of ' pattern triradii ' or those concerned in its structure, 

 the shape of the pattern itself, its degree of completeness and so on, 

 and all these attributes may be easily added by means of a series of 

 easily devised descriptive signs, like the 'descriptive suffixes' of Galton, 

 and used as exponents, having, like the exponent r, no influence upon 



