Vucetich, Juan
- Date:
- 11 Dec 1896
- Reference:
- GALTON/2/9/6/13/52
- Part of:
- Fingerprint Correspondence
- Archives and manuscripts
Collection contents
About this work
Description
Letter dated 11 December 1896 from Juan Vucetich, Chief and founder of the Office of Statistics and Anthropometric Identification of the Province of Buenos Aires, to Galton regarding the use of fingerprints in the identification of criminals. This letter is in French.
Letter from Vucetich to Galton dated 15 August 1909 requesting copies of some of Galton's fingerprint data for use in a scientific conference. This letter is in English.
Business card of Cesar E Etcheverry, Police Delegate from the Argentine Government. Annotated in an unknown hand with details of an appointment and Juan Vucetich's name, and "called at end of 1931".
Publication/Creation
11 Dec 1896
Physical description
2 letters plus 1 business card
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.
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.