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OCR Rendition - approximate
VIII PECULIARITIES OF THE DIGITS 117 between the respective frequencies in the thumbs and ring-fingers; for instance, the Whorls on either of these fingers on the left hand are only two-thirds as common as those on the right. The figures in each line and in each column are consistent throughout iii expressing these curious differences, which must therefore be accepted as facts, and not as statistical accidents, whatever may be their explanation. One of the most noticeable peculiarities in Table I. is the much greater frequency of &rches on the fore-fingers than on any other of the four digits. It amounts to 17 per cent on the fore-fingers, while on the thumbs and on the remaining fingers the frequency diminishes (Table III.) in a ratio that roughly accords with the distance of each digit from the fore-finger. TABLE III.
The frequency of Loops (Table IV.) has two maxima ; the principal one is on the little finger, the secondary on the middle finger.
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