Specimen H-4 · Survey Respondent D
The Divided
Divided by seven in 1911. The result was seven. Catalogued as one specimen for administrative simplicity.
Catalogue record
In collection (×7)
- Catalogue no.
- H-4
- Acquired
- 1790
- Origin
- Distilled by the Institute’s second director, who did not write down how
- Height
- 7 in (each)
- Hands
- Large (all fourteen)
- Jar
- No. 4 (crowded)
- Temperament
- Unanimous
Notes
In 1911 the Department of Remainders tried to find out what was left when a humunculous is divided by seven. The answer was seven humunculi, all of them H‑4, and no remainder at all. The department has not tried since.
All seven are catalogued as a single specimen, because the paperwork for seven was considered worse than the problem. They act together and answer together, and they declined the 2024 survey as one.
Observation log
- 1790 Catalogued. One specimen.
- 1911 Divided by seven. Catalogued again. One specimen, in a manner of speaking.
- 1911 The jar was not large enough. Jar No. 7 was borrowed. It has not been seen since.
- 2024 Jar Preference Survey: “Declined.” Seven signatures, identical.