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herited at the same rate as other physical characters, but the type characteristic of 
any finger in the parent while mostly likely to pass to the like finger in the 
offspring, may easily pass to the homologous finger of the other hand or indeed to 
any other finger whatever of the offspring. 
TABLE XIV. 
Left First Finger of first Sibling and Left First Finger 
of second Sibling 
•411 
Thumb 
•368 
„ „ „ „ Second 
a _ '> 
•3S7 
Third 
•357 
„ „ „ „ Fourth 
•345 
Left First Finger of first Sibling and Right Thumb 
•314 
„ „ „ „ First 
)) " 
•399 
„ „ „ „ Second 
)» J' 
•342 
Third 
J) 
•384 
„ „ „ „ Fourth 
)) )) 
•354 
and B^VtTf=-^el. 
(9) It is possible from the finger-prints in Galton's later series to obtain for 
the first fingers the correlation between grandparents and their grandchildren, 
between uncles and aunts and their nephews and nieces and between pairs of 
cousins. For the consideration of the grandparental relationship we have only 
405 cases and to obtain even this small number we have had to combine the sexes. 
In the uncle and aunt tables we have rather over 500 cases in each table so we 
could keep the sexes separate but could not distinguish between paternal and 
maternal relations. We found 057 pairs of female cousins, 795 pairs of males and 
1510 of male and female. 
Until we have data for every finger it is not possible to deal adequately with 
the inheritance of type of finger-print as we cannot allow for the fact that in- 
heritance of type of finger-print is not wholly indifferent as to finger but we give 
the results in Table XV ; it seems especially needful to give them since they do 
not wholly confirm results previously reached ; cousins show a decidedly lower 
value than we should expect. 
For grandparents the values found for right and left forefingers ai-e practically 
identical ; the values given on p. 78 are below the true value and when we can make 
the necessary adjustment we shall probably find that the grandparental coefficient 
for the inheritance of type of finger-print is about S. The only grandparental 
data at present reduced for man are those for eye colour and the eight cases give a 
mean value of '32 with which the value found for finger-prints agrees very well but 
both these are somewhat higher than the mean value found for other species. We 
are helping soon to work out the grandparental coefficients for other characters. 
In the uncle and aunt tables the coefficients found for the right forefinger are 
lower than those found for the left but the difference is not significant. The value 
