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FINGER PRINTS

TABLE XII.
Index-headings under which more than 1 per cent of the sets
of Finger Prints were registered.
(500 sets observed.)

i and o in fore-fingers.			No slope.
U `" C5 ~ F-4	Index-heading.	°' 44	~ U O, 0 0 4) `. ;_4	Index-heading.	U w
1	all all 11 11	1.2	1.	all alt 11 11	1.2
2	all ill „ „	1.6	II.	all 111 „ „	2-2
3	i11 i11 „ „	2.8
4	oll ill „ „	1.4	III.	111 111 „ „	9.2
5	oll oll „ „	4.0
6	ill oll wl 11	1.2	IV.	Ill 111 wl 11	3.2
7	oll oll „ „	1.4
8	oll all 11 11	2.2	V.	Ill all 11 11	3.0
9	o1 w nil „ „	2.0	VI.	11w 111 „ „	3.0
10	w11 W11 „ „	1.2	VII.	w11 w1l „ „	1.2
11	www www ww ww	1.4	VIII.	www www ww ww	1.4

The headings in the right half of the table include more cases than the left half, because a combination of two or more cases that severally contain less than 1 per cent of the finger prints, and are therefore ignored in the first

half of the table, may exceed 1 per cent and find a place in the second half.

The entries in Table XII. are derived from a catalogue of 500 sets, and include all entries that appeared more than five times ; in other words, whose frequency exceeded 1 per cent. These are the indexheadings that give enough trouble to deserve notice in catalogues of, say, from 500 to 1000 sets.

In the left half of Table XII. all the index-headings are given, under each of which more than 1 per

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