Cuttings on Finger Prints and Reviews

Contains cuttings on Francis Galton's promotion of finger print measurements to aid the detection of criminals, and reviews of other work. Comprises:

Article by Galton on the proposed Imperial Institute of Geography and Anthropology.

Report on the Congress of Hygiene.

Reviews of Fingerprints by Galton.

Reviews of Hereditary Genius by Galton.

Reviews of Decipherment of Blurred Finger Prints by Galton.

Articles on anthropometric investigation, with reference to finger prints and the French "Bertillonage" system, and on the Home Office report on the identification of criminals through finger prints, 1894.

Reviews of Fingerprint Directories by Galton.

Reports of cases where criminals were identified by finger prints.

Also contains the strawboard folder which originally enclosed these cuttings.

1886-1902

84 folios

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.

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

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.