Why the Majority of Men are Bight-Handed 433 



the branch on which the leaves become white, the stem 

 at the same time assumes a pink colour. 



As people get older, there is usually a decreasing 

 amount of pigment in the hair, and the older the whiter 

 the hair becomes. The whitening may be the result 

 of some sudden stay in vitality from shock, when the 

 vitality is greatly suspended, so that whiteness, where 

 pigment should be, may be accepted as evidence of 

 slightly lessened vitality. 



Information received from a lady who is a cat-fancier 

 is to the effect that white Persian cats are more or less 

 deaf and that the lighter coloured breeds are less healthy 

 than pigmented varieties, the hardiest being the black. 



If, then, white hair may be taken as an index of weak- 

 ness, and it would appear that it is so, it would imply 

 that the side on which white hair is most frequent would 

 be the weaker and the figures quoted above would show 

 a preponderance of strength on the right side. 



In man it has been observed that deformities and 

 arrest of development occur more frequently on the left 

 side. 



Notably, hare lip most frequently on the left side. 

 Here is a set of skiagraphs showing deformity in both 

 arms and legs. The young lad from whose hands these 

 two were made is a Russian Jew. On the left arm there 

 are only two middle fingers which are complete to the 

 base of the metacarpal bones, the unciform bone is 

 present and what appears to be the cuneiform bone. 

 There is but one bone to represent radius and ulnar and 

 that is united to the humerus without any elbow joint, 

 and there is a long, extended internal condyle to the 

 humerus. 



On the right arm the same arrangement for humerus, 

 radius and ulnar is present, but the one bone representing 

 radius and ulnar is somewhat longer than the left. There 

 is a rudimentary scaphoid, a trapezoid, os magnum and 

 unciform and a cuneiform, but the other carpal bones 

 are absent. There are three metacarpal bones; to the 



