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An Account of a Brachydactylous Family. 
Hands: External Aspect. 
Length. —The most conspicuous feature is the shortness, especially of the 
lingers : these are only slightly more than half the normal length, some- 
times even less than half, whilst the hand looks abnormally broad. The 
Fig. 2. 
middle finger, measured on the palmar surface from the base or metacarpo- 
phalangeal crease to the tip, is normally as long as the width of the palm at 
the knuckles : in these people it is approximately half this, the average 
length being 1]-| inches (figs. 2 and 3). Sometimes it is shorter than the 
first finger * (Nos. 98 (fig. 2), 93, and 101). The extreme shortness in 
* The numbers refer to the genealogical chart, in which the members are numbered 
consecutively from above downwards and from left to right. The first in the 4th, 5th, 6tli, 
and last line are respectively Nos. 16, 22 58, and 134. 
