Offprints Relating to Fingerprints
- Date:
- 1890-1892
- Reference:
- GALTON/2/9/6/1
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
Three offprints relating to Galton's work on fingerprints:
Uncorrected proof of the abstract of Galton's lecture on "The Patterns in Thumb and Finger Marks..." given at the Royal Society, 27 Nov 1890.
Annotated off-print of Galton's paper "Method of Indexing Finger-Marks" from the Proceedings of the Royal Society, vol. 49, May 28 1891.
Copy of "Imprints of the Hand, by Dr Forgeot, of the Laboratoire D'Anthropologie Criminale, Lyon. Exhibited by Francis Galton Esq., FRS", reprinted from the Journal of the Anthropological Institute, February 1892.
Publication/Creation
1890-1892
Physical description
3 offprints
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.