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PECULIAR ABNORMALITY IN HANDS OF FARMER TWINS 



Figure 9. This unusual "corrugation" was present at birth, and after more than half 

 a century of handling mason's tools and rough stones these marks are still as well defined 

 as ever, and still nearly as similar as at birth. Note the characteristic position of the little 

 fingers, and the similarity of the lines in the palms of the hands. 



be precisely the same attitudes, laugh- 

 ing in the same key. their faces fur- 

 rowed and wrinkled in the same lines 

 at every expression of emotion, was a 

 unique experience. Ninety-three pairs 

 and one or two odd ones were photo- 

 graphed in a group at the close of the 

 performance. As will be noticed in 

 the photograph, the "identical" twins 

 are mainly disposed spontaneously in 

 similar attitudes, while those who are 

 plainly unlike stand or sit differently. 

 The twins ranged in ages from seven 

 years up to eighty-seven, the latter, 

 the Klein bi others, unlike twins, of 

 Brooklyn, receiving a gold medal as 

 the oldest twins present. They in- 

 formed the writer that thev had al- 



ways lived very much together but 

 "were not much like each other." 



The same thing came out in this 

 study that has appeared in all studies, 

 especially that of the Journal of Her- 

 edity, that the more alike twins are, 

 the more interest they take in each 

 other. Over three-fourths of my cor- 

 respondents were very much alike. 

 At this twin matinee, nearly all of the 

 pairs were of the similar type. Omaha, 

 Nebraska, reports a "Twin Club" of 

 fifty pairs, and Berkeley. California, 

 a club with over one hundred pairs, 

 and judging from the pictures sent the 

 writer from these clubs, the same phe- 

 nomena hold good in these assem- 

 blages of unique human beings, since 



