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The Journal of Heredity 



THE FARMER TWINS 



Figure 8. The Farmer twins are contracting masons in New York City. They state 

 that they were born with the fingers interlocked as shown in the photograph. Possibly this 

 has some connection with the peculiar marks in the palms of their left hands (see Figure 9). 

 Their workmen are not able to tell which twin is directing them, and their voices can only 

 be distinguished with difficulty. At seventy-eight their physical condition and energy is 

 extremely similar. 



close guess as to what the informants 

 would relate in their letters as to their 

 mental and temperamental resem- 

 ])lances. In reading many of the let- 

 ters one could scarcely help helieving 

 he was ir.erely reading over again Gal- 

 ton's letters from twins written nsarly 

 half a century ago. 



Ninety-three Pairs of Twins 



During this work a musical comedy 

 on Broadway, "Two Little Girls in 

 P>Iue," advertised a "twin matinee" in 



honor of the Fairbanks twins, two 

 young ladies, stars in the play, and the 

 Tomson twins, two young men singers 

 of the cast, at which "all twins in 

 New York" were invited free of 

 charge. Such an array of duplicated 

 human beings probabh never before 

 was assembled. The writer, a twin, 

 sat where he could observe the audi- 

 ence. To see faces apparently identi- 

 cal, scattered in pairs all over the 

 auditoriiun, moving, laughing or sit- 

 ting at attention in what appeared to 



