Set of Three Hundred Fingerprints
- Date:
- 1895-1896
- Reference:
- GALTON/2/9/6/11/2
- Part of:
- Sets of Fingerprints
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Collection contents
About this work
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.
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.