The fifty-eight parentages affording fifty couplets of the fore, middle, and ring-fingers respectively give 58 x 3 = 174 parental couplets in all; of these, 27 or 14 per cent are alike in their pattern, as shown by Table XXVIII. The total number of children to these twenty-seven pairs is 109, of which 59 (or 54 per cent) have the same pattern as their parents. This fact requires analysis, as on account of the great frequency of loops, and especially of the pattern No. 42 on the middle finger, a large number of the cases of similarity of pattern between child and parents would be mere random coincidences. TABLE XXVIII.--_Children of like-patterned Parents._ +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | The 27 | Patterns of-- F. M. | --of Sons. | Alike. | Total | | cases. | | | | sons. | |--------|-----------------------|-----------------|--------|-------| | 1 | Fore 1 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | | 2 | 34 34 | 34 | 1 | 1 | | 3 | 40 40 | 41 | ... | 1 | | 4 | 42 42 | 48 | ... | 1 | | | | | | | | 5 | Middle 40 40 | 40 | 1 | 1 | | 6 | 42 42 | 42 | 1 | 1 | | 7 | 42 42 | 42 | 1 | 1 | | 8 | 42 42 | 42, 38, 42, 42 | 3 | 4 | | 9 | 42 42 | 42 | 1 | 1 | | 10 | 42 42 | 48, 48, 14 | 1 | 4 | | 11 | 42 42 | 42 | 1 | 1 | | 12 | 42 42 | 40 | ... | 1 | | 13 | 42 42 | 1 | ... | 1 | | 14 | 42 42 | 42 | 1 | 1 | | 15 | 42 42 | 42, 46, 42 | 2 | 3 | | 16 | 42 42 | 34, 42 | 1 | 2 | | 17 | 42 42 | 42 | 1 | 1 | | 18 | 42 42 | ... | ... | ... | | | | | | | | 19 | Ring 14 14 | 33, 42, 14 | 1 | 3 | | 20 | 14 14 | 42, 16 | ... | 2 | | 21 | 14 14 | 6 | ... | 1 | | 22 | 42 42 | 40 | ... | 1 | | 23 | 42 42 | 42, 42, 42 | 3 | 3 | | 24 | 42 42 | ... | ... | ... | | 25 | 42 42 | 42, 42 | 2 | 2 | | 26 | 42 42 | 49, 14 | ... | 2 |