For the sake of those who are deficient in the colour sense and therefore
hardly able, if at all, to distinguish even the blue numerals in Figs. 20,
21, I give an eleventh example, Plate 15, Fig. 22, printed all in black.
The numerals are here very legible, but space for their insertion had to
be obtained by sacrificing some of the lineations. It is the right
fore-finger of Sir W. Herschel and has been already published twice; first
in the account of my lecture at the Royal Institution, and secondly, in
its present conspicuous form, in my paper in the _Nineteenth Century_. The
number of years that elapsed between the two impressions is thirty-one,
and the prints contain twenty-four points of comparison, all of which will
be seen to agree. I also possess a later print than this, taken in 1890
from the same finger, which tells the same tale.
The final result of the prints in these pages is that they give
photographic enlargements of the whole or portions of eleven couplets
belonging to six different persons, who are members of five unrelated
families, and which contain between them 158 points of comparison, of
which only one failed. Adding the portions of the prints that are omitted
here, but which will be found in the _Phil. Trans._, the material that I
have thus far published contains 389 points of comparison, of which one
failed. The details are given in the annexed table:--
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Order | Initials. |Digit | Age |Dates of| Years | Total points |
| in | | of | at |the two |elapsed| of agreement in |
| the | |right | date |prints. |between|-------------------|
| Figs. | |hand. | of |--------|the two|Figs. 20|Figs. 20, |
| | | |first | |prints.|and 21. |22, and in|
| | | |print.|1st 2nd| | |Ph. Trans.|
|-------|------------|------|------|--------|-------|--------|----------|
|FIG. 20| | | | | | | |
| 1. |V. H. Hd. |Fore | 2-1/2| 1877-90| 13 | 26 | 26 |
| 2. |V. H. Hd. |Ring | 2-1/2| 1877-90| 13 | 42 | 42 |
| | | | | | | | |
|FIG. 21| | | | | | | |
| 1. |A. E. H. Hl.|Fore | 8 | 1881-90| 9 | 11 | 33 |
| 2. |A. E. H. Hl.|Ring | 8 | 1881-90| 9 | 5 | 36 |
| 3. |N. H. Tn. |Fore |28 | 1862-90| 28 | 6 | 27 |
| 4. |N. H. Tn. |Middle|28 | 1862-90| 28 | 10 | 36 |
| 5. |F. K. Ht. |Fore |28 | 1862-88| 26 | 12 | 55 |
| 6. |R. F. Hn. |Middle|31 | 1859-90| 31 | 6 | 27 |
| 7. |W. J. Hl. |Thumb |30 | 1860-90| 30 | 9 | 50 |
| 8. |W. J. Hl. |Ring |31 | 1859-90| 31 | 6 | 32 |
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