FINGER-PRINTS AND CRIMINOLOGY

GALTON, FRANCIS.

"The Patterns in Thumb and Finger Marks; on their Arrangement into naturally distinct Classees, the Permanence of the Papillary Ridges that make them, and the Resemblance of their Classes to ordinary Genera." ( (And same author:) "Methods of indexing Finger Marks."

Lindon, Harrison and Sons, 1890-91. Bound together in recent marbled boards. With both titlepages to vols 48 and 49 (both 1891) in "Proceedings of the Royal Society of London" pp. 455-459 (in vol. 48) and pp. 540-548.

"The Patterns in Thumb and Finger Marks" is an early 'abstract' read to the Royal Society. The full paper paper appeared later the same year. "Methods of indexing Finger Mark" being the first appearance. These two paper constitute the very first appearance of the anthropometric classification of fingerprint.
"Galtons establisment of fingerprinting as an easy and almost infallible means of human identification transformed a difficult subject, and his taxonomy of prints is basically that used today".(DSB).

Order-nr.: 39153