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I propose to describe some results of a recent inquiry into the patterns formed by the papillary ridges upon the bulbs of the thumbs and fingers of different persons. The points upon which I shall chiefly dwell are, the classification of the patterns, their permanence throughout life, and the apt confirmation they afford of certain views concerning the more important conditions by which the genera of plants and animals are determined. My attention was drawn to the subject nearly three years ago, when preparing a lecture for the Royal Institution on ‘‘Personal Identification.” (See either the ‘Journal of the Royal Institution,’ for Friday, May 25th, 1888, or ‘Nature,’ June 28th, 1888, in which the portion of the lecture with which we are now concerned is printed.)

philosophical transactions of the royal society of london. b

I. The patterns in thumb and finger Marks.—On their arrangement into naturally distinct classes, the permance of the papillary ridges that makes them, and the resemblance of their classes to ordinary genera