George McMullan and Karl Pearson 
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Thomas Wk. IV. 21 (P. P. III. 16). Green keeper on golf course. Married, four children 
all showing deformity. 
Right and Left. 
Hands. Carpus. Trapezium presence doubtful. Trapezoid probably not fully deve- 
loped on left hand. 
Metacarpals. Three inner bones alone present. 
Digits. 4th finger only present, vei - y much curved, three phalanges. 
Feet. Tarsus. Presence of middle and external cuneiforms doubtful. 
Metatarsals. 5th alone present. A small hard mass is present lying over internal 
cuneiform bone, possibly a rudimentary 1st metatarsal. 
Digits. 5th alone present, much curved, three phalanges. 
For photographs of hands and feet: see Plate XXVII, Figs, (xiii) and (xiv). 
Annie Wh. IV. 23 (P. P. III. 13). Normal. 
Henry Wh. IV. 24 (P. F. III. 16). Dead, normal; three normal children, V. 34-36. 
Clara Wh. IV. 26 (P. P. III. 18). Dead, normal; one normal child, V. 37. 
John Wh. IV. 28 (P. P. III. 19). Normal. 
We now come to Mrs B.'s family : 
V. 1 and 2 (P. P. IV. 17, 18). Two normal sons. 
V. 9, born since the first paper was written, also a normal boy ; V. 10, ditto, but stillborn. 
The remainder of the family are deformed. All have the little finger only on the hands, but 
as Pearson's Plate IX and skiagrams in the earlier paper show, this may mean very different 
bones missing even in the two hands of the same individual. 
V. 3 = P. P. IV. 19. V. 4 = P. P. IV. 20. V. 5 = P. P. IV. 21. V. 6 = P. P. IV. 22. V. 7 = P. P. 
IV. 23. Accounts will be found in Pearson's paper, detailed in the cases of V. 5 and V. 7. 
V. 8 = P. P. IV. 24, the "expected birth" of the first paper recorded in a footnote (p. 74) 
as a girl deformed in hands and feet. She differs from the other members of this branch 
of the family in having a single (little) finger straight on the left hand ; but this single finger is 
crooked on the right; she has two toes (big and little) on each foot, both "clawed" round, being 
thus like her mother, and differing from her sister, V. 3. 
Eliza Wh. V. 16 (P. P. IV. 4). Hands and feet deformed. 
Hands Right Left 
Carpus. Scaphoid presence doubtful. Trape- Scaphoid and trapezium probably 
zium probably absent. absent. 
Metacarpals. 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th present. 2nd (rudimentary), 3rd, 4th and 5th. 
Digits. Ring and little fingers closely united Ring and little fingers closely united 
by fleshy web, double nail. Three by a thick Meshy web, double nail, 
bones in each. Three phalanges in each finger. 
Rudimentary middle finger, one 
small phalanx. 
Feet. Same deformity in each foot. 
Tarsus. Presence of the middle and 1st cuneiform bones doubtful. 
Metatarsals. 1st and 5th only present. 
Digits. 1st and 5th alone present, much curved, resembling a crab's claws, normal 
number of bones in each digit, but joints are ankylosed. 
Fred. W. V. 17 (P. P. IV. 5). Hands and feet deformed. The deformity of the hands is 
difficult to determine (see diagram), but probably the rigid bar of bone felt running along the free 
