Set of Three Hundred Fingerprints

Date:
1895-1896
Reference:
GALTON/2/9/6/11/2
Part of:
Sets of Fingerprints
  • Archives and manuscripts
  • Online

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Set of Three Hundred Fingerprints. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider

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

Wooden box labelled "The 300 sets of Fingerprints". Contains the following:
  • Wooden tray divided into four compartments, each containing a bundle of fingerprint notation cards classified by patterns of arches, ridges, loops and whorls
  • Original labels from the box
  • Proof copy of the chapter "Specimen Directory of 300 Sets" from Galton's book Fingerprint Directories
  • Index books
  • Sets of fingerprints on cards

    • Publication/Creation

    1895-1896

    Physical description

    13 items

    Biographical note

    Galton is credited with pioneering the scientific methodology for using fingerprints for forensic purposes, collecting some 8,000 and classifying them; the 300 sets of fingerprints in this box were meticulously codified and grouped by type.

    Location of duplicates

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

    Terms of use

    The papers are available at UCL Special Collections and Archives subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

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    Location of original

    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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