href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@36979@[email protected]#Page_146" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">146

XVI. Number of cases of various anthropometric data that severally fell in the three classes of large, medium, and small, when certain
limiting values were adopted 159 XVII. Distribution of 500 sets of measures, each set consisting of five elements, into classes 160 XVIII. Number of the above sets that fell under the same headings 161 XIX. Further analysis of the two headings that contained the most numerous entries 162 XX. Observed random couplets 174 XXI. Calculated random couplets 174 XXII. Observed fraternal couplets 175 XXIII. Fraternal couplets—random, observed, and utmost feasible 176 XXIV. Three fingers of right hand in 150 fraternal couplets 181 XXV. Three fingers of right hand in 150 fraternal couplets—random and observed 182 XXVI. Three fingers of right hand in 150 fraternal couplets—resemblance measured on centesimal scale 182 XXVII. Twins 186 XXVIII. Children of like-patterned parents 188 XXIX. Paternal and maternal influence 190 XXX. Different races, percentage frequency of arches in fore-finger 194 XXXI. Distribution of number of ridges in AH, and of other measures in loops 203 XXXII. Ordinates to their schemes of distribution 204 XXXIII. Comparison of the above with calculated values 205 XXXIV. Proportions of a typical loop on the right and left thumbs respectively 209

 

 

---

DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES

		PAGE
I.—	Fig. 1. Chinese coin with the symbol of the nail-mark of the Empress Wen-teh	25
	Fig. 2. Order on a camp sutler by Mr. Gilbert Thompson, who used his finger print for the same purpose as the scroll-work in cheques, viz. to ensure the detection of erasures	27
II.—	Fig. 3. Form of card used at my anthropometric laboratory for finger prints. It shows the places where they are severally impressed, whether dabbed or rolled (p. 40), and the hole by which they are secured in their box	145
	Fig. 4. Small printing roller, used in the pocket apparatus, actual size. It may be covered either with india-rubber tubing or with roller composition	40
III.—	Fig. 5. Diagram of the chief peculiarities of ridges, called here minutiæ (the scale is about eight times the natural size)	54
	Fig. 6. The systems of ridges and the creases in the palm, indicated