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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IV, Issue 183, 15 July 1864, Page 3

Hereditary Peculiarities. —Dr. Berigny comiruinicatccLto tbs Academy of Sciences a curious instance of hereditary palraidactylism in a tamily, in which the great-great-grandmother had the third and fourth toes of her right foot webbed together. She had seven children, four daughters and three sons, none of whom presented the same anomaly. » One of these daughters, however, gave birth to a girl whose middle and third fingers of the right hand were webbed like her grandmother’s toes ; and one of the sisters had a boy and a girl, having exactly the same peculiarity." One only of the brothers had a son, his eldest out of five, webbed like his cousins. Hero, therefore, the anomaly which had failed to re-appear in the second generation, re-appeared in the third. In the fourth generation, the son, webbed as above described gets twin daughters, one of whom has her toes webbed like those of her maternal ancestor, and a ,b6y whose right hand is like his father’s. ’Thus #e see palmidactyhsm descending tb the fourth 'generation, always on the right foot or hand, and always on the same toes or corresponding fingers.