40 Minor-Brachydactyly 



not otherwise. By this means I was able to show her that her two 

 youngest children's hands were brachydactylqus and this is confirmed 

 by the radiographs. 



In adult life the shortness of the hand is conspicuous enough and 

 cannot be overlooked, but this is not so during childhood, so that it is 

 possible that of the few children whom I could not see and who were 

 declared to be normal, one or two may be of the abnormal type, and 

 if so would make the percentage of abnormals still more closely approxi- 

 mate to the theoretical figure. 



I have been able to obtain radiographs of the hands of Nos. 9, 

 12, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 22 and of the feet of all the same except 

 No. 9. 



[Figure 4 is reproduced by kind permission of the Royal Society of 

 Edinburgh.] 



The expenses in connection with this investigation have been 

 defrayed by a grant made by the University of Edinburgh from the 

 Earl of Moray Endowment for the promotion of original research. 



