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happened that they all married five-fingered and five- 

 toed persons. Now let us see what were the results. 

 Salvator had four children they were two boys, a 

 girl, and another boy the first two boys and the girl 

 were six-fingered and six-toed like their grandfather ; 

 the fourth boy had only five fingers and toes. 



" George had only four children ; there were two 

 girls with six fingers and six toes ; there was one girl 

 with six fingers and five toes on the right side, and 

 five fingers and five toes on the left side, so that she 

 was half-and-half. The last, a boy, had five fingers 

 and five toes. The third, Andre, you will recollect, 

 was perfectly well formed,, and he had many children 

 whose hands and feet were all regularly developed. 



" Marie, the last, who of course married a man 

 who had only five fingers, had four children : the first, 

 a boy, was born with six toes, but the other three were 

 normal." l 



" In a paper contributed to the Edinburgh New 

 Philosophical Journal, for July, 1863, Dr. Strathers 

 gives several cases of hereditary digital variations. 

 Esther P , who had six fingers on one hand, be- 

 queathed this malformation along some lines of her 

 descendants, for two, three, and four generations. 



A S inherited an extra digit on each hand 



and each foot, from his father ; and C G , 



who also had six fingers and six toes, had an aunt and 

 a grandmother similarly formed." a 



A deficiency in the number of fingers, or in the 

 number of the phalanges or joints of the fingers and 



1 Huxley on " The Origin of Species," p. 92. 



8 Herbert Spencer's " Principles of Biology," vol. i., p. 243. 



