Fingerprint Illustrations
- Date:
- 1880s-1890s
- Reference:
- GALTON/2/9/6/11/13
- Part of:
- Sets of Fingerprints
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
About this work
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
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.
Location of duplicates
A digitised copy is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.
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Where to find it
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.