Bertillon, Alphonse

Date:
10 Mar 1891
Reference:
GALTON/2/9/6/13/6
Part of:
Fingerprint Correspondence
  • Archives and manuscripts

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Description

Letter from Alphonse Bertillon to Galton thanking him for sending some publications. Also discusses Bertillon's collection of photographs of callouses on the hands of people who did certain professions. This may relate to Bertillon's book "Signes Caractéristiques des Professions Manuelles", see GALTON/2/9/7.

Publication/Creation

10 Mar 1891

Physical description

1 letter

Related material

See also GALTON/3/3/2/12 for further letters from Bertillon.

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

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