NOTE. 



This paper is a brief extract from a thesis by Dr. Farabee 

 on Hereditary and Sexual Influences in Meristic Variation, ac- 

 cepted in 1903 for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the 

 Divison of Anthropology of Harvard University. It embodies 

 only that part of the thesis which gives the results of Dr. 

 Farabee's personal research on the Inheritance of Digital Mal- 

 formation in Man. 



For the means of carrying on this investigation as well as for 

 the publication of this paper we are indebted to a Friend of the 

 Museum. 



F. W. Putnam, 



Curator of the Museum. 



Cambridge, Mass., 



March 10, 1005. 



