My dear Sir

I am much obliged to you for the information about the pig’s foot so kindly supplied to me in your letter of the 10^th. of May.¹

Your plan for collecting and publishing similar cases appears to be a very good one, and I hope that you will be able to carry it out successfully. As you are interested in the subject I will send you a copy of the Catalogue of our Teratological Series; many additions have been made since its publication, including the one which is most like your specimen, it is a pig’s fore foot (and as in your case both fore feet were similarly malformed, and the hind feet normal) with an additional toe on the inner side of the foot—the difference being that the toe is not quite so large, and, is articulated above with the same bone as the 2^d. toe, whereas in yours there is an additional bone in the carpus.

This is a sketch of the arrangement in our specimen No 297A.² Yours will be very interesting to place beside it, as a further development of the same condition

Believe me | your’s very faithfully. | W. H. Flower