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Title: Journal of genetics
Year: 1910 (1910s)
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Subjects: Genetics Heredity
Publisher: Cambridge : University Press
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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Lr 17 / ^ *^^^ 19 • JOURNAL OF GENETICS, VOL. II. NO. 1 PLATE -Wt^ h 33 r
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38 i 29 ACCOUNT OF A FAMILY SHOWING MINOR-BRACHYDACTYLY. By H. DRINKWATER, M.U., F.R.S. (Edin.), F.L.S. In the autumn of last year (1910) a medical friend resident inLiverpool informed me that a relative of his, whilst making his officialmedical inspection of school children, had seen a boy whose handsappeared to be of the same Brachydactylous type which I had describedin a communication to the Royal Society of Edinburgh in November1907. It naturally occurred to me that some family whom I hadalready examined had removed to Lancashire; but as soon as this boysname was communicated to me I kuew that he did not belong to anyof the families already described. In December I wrote to the Headmistress of the school which theboy had attended and received the following reply:— Deo. 29. 10.Dear Sir, Your letter has just reached me having been forwarded from . The boy, whom yovi refer to, has now left school. His parents live at -. He is a rather peculiar boy, and dull by nature. At school we

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