Fingerprint Illustrations

Date:
1880s-1890s
Reference:
GALTON/2/9/6/11/13
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Sets of Fingerprints
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Fingerprint Illustrations. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The original material is held at UCL Special Collections. This catalogue is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

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Description

Original fingerprints used by Galton as illustrations in one of his publications, set as he intended the plates to appear. Copies of fingerprints showing loops and whorls and the effects of burns, scars and skin grafts. Card showing the "Standard Patterns of Purkenje" (sic). Copies of fingerprints of Sir W J Herschel taken at various intervals and a photographs of the Bengali contract signed with a handprint, see GALTON/2/9/6/5/2/2 for the original.

Publication/Creation

1880s-1890s

Physical description

29 folios

Location of duplicates

A digitised copy is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

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The original material is held at UCL Special Collections. This catalogue is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

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