THE PSYCHONOMY OF THE HAND. SEE 
July, we learn that he had been lately redeemed with George 
Shoreland out of Lydford Prison). 
~The Revds. E. Polwhele, B. W. S. Vallack, F. T. W. Wintle, 
T. C. Coulthard, and Merton Smith, were kind enough to search the 
registers of their respective parishes—St. Stephen’s by Saltash, 
St. Budeaux, Maker, Plymstock, and Plympton St. Mary for me, 
but with very little result. The only register that contains any 
references to the Siege is that of the last-named parish. In February, 
1643-4, there were buried John Turlow, lieutenant; John Bromely 
and William Groves, captain-heutenants. The other entries refer 
to soldiers. 
THE PSYCHONOMY OF THE HAND. 
ABSTRACT OF MR. R. W. WOOLLCOMBE’S PAPER. 
(Read December 17th, 1874.) 
AxssTract of review must be here most imperfect, from its necessary 
limit; the work containing ninety pages and thirty-one tracings 
of hands, without the reproduction of which, here impracticable, 
it is impossible to do even a semblance of justice to its author. 
It consists of an exposition of the treatises, founded on observation 
of living hands, of Messrs. Desbarolles and D’Arpentigny, and of 
similar study for, he says, twenty years by the author Mr. Beamish ; 
‘The Form of the Hand; or, Chirognomy,”’ having been the subject 
of M. D’Arpentigny, and ‘‘ Chiromancy; or, The Influence of the 
Mind on the Lines of the Palm,’ the pursuit of M. Desbarolles; 
the former having originally taken up his subject from noticing 
that in arithmeticians, geometricians, and mechanics, and persons 
with a predilection for the exact sciences, the fingers presented at 
the joints a knotty appearance; while, on the contrary, the fingers 
of artists, poets, and of those given less to action than contempla- 
tion, were usually smooth, and devoid of the above appearances. 
The sense of touch in the extremities of the fingers more especially, 
and in a less degree in the feet, has been shown by Meissner to depend 
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