+---------------------------------------------------------------+ | | Arches in || Loops in || Whorls in | | |--------------||--------------||--------------| | Couplet. |Same |Opposite||Same |Opposite||Same |Opposite| | |hand.| hand. ||hand.| hand. ||hand.| hand. | |----------------|-----|--------||-----|--------||-----|--------| |Thumb and | | || | || | | | fore-finger | 2 | 2 || 35 | 33 || 16 | 15 | |Thumb and | | || | || | | | middle finger | 1 | 1 || 48 | 47 || 9 | 8 | |Thumb and ring- | | || | || | | | finger | 1 | 1 || 40 | 38 || 20 | 18 | |Fore and middle | | || | || | | | finger | 5 | 5 || 48 | 46 || 12 | 11 | |Fore and ring- | | || | || | | | finger | 2 | 2 || 35 | 35 || 17 | 17 | |Middle and ring-| | || | || | | | finger | 2 | 2 || 50 | 50 || 13 | 12 | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ The agreement in the above entries is so curiously close as to have excited grave suspicion that it was due to some absurd blunder, by which the same figures were made inadvertently to do duty twice over, but subsequent checking disclosed no error. Though the unanimity of the results is wonderful, they are fairly arrived at, and leave no doubt that the relationship of any one particular digit, whether thumb, fore, middle, ring or little finger, to any other particular digit, is the same, whether the two digits are on the same or on opposite hands. It would be a most interesting subject of statistical inquiry to ascertain whether the distribution of malformations, or of the various forms of skin disease among the digits, corroborates this unexpected and remarkable result. I am sorry to have no means of undertaking it, being assured on good authority that no adequate collection of the necessary data has yet been published.