422b Association of Finger-Prints 
TABLE 2. 
Divergence of Types in Right and Left Hands. 
Number of Types. 
1 
3 
3 
4 
5 
Totals 
Right Hand 
Left Hand 
118 
174 
842 
955 
839 
716 
194 
151 
7 
4 
2000 
2000 
For this Table 
= 33-72, 
whence P is less than "000,005. 
That is, the odds are more than 200,000 to 1 against the occurrence of two such 
divergent samples if they were random samples of the same population. In other 
words the right hand generally tends to have a greater divergence of types than 
the left. 
The following Table gives the distribution of classes of prints for the various 
fingers of both hands : 
TABLE 3. 
Distribution of Classes of Prints. 
A 
W 
C 
46 
1104 
1 
649 
200 
R'i 
352 
537 
456 
481 
174 
212 
1399 
38 
274 
77 
R, 
63 
1015 
17 
729 
176 
R-o 
31 
1631 
3 
228 
107 
Totals 
704 
5686 
515 
2361 
734 
91 
1311 
3 
341 
254 
313 
732 
383 
437 
135 
215 
1408 
35 
240 
102 
u 
66 
1283 
12 
491 
148 
Lr, 
35 
1727 
150 
88 
Totals 
720 
6461 
433 
1659 
727 
Totals for Loth hands 
1424 
12147 
948 
4020 
1461 
The most striking feature of this Table is the uneven distribution of the 
various classes, especially the large proportion of ulnar loops and the very small 
