Wooden Box Containing Slides and Fingerprints

Date:
c1894
Reference:
GALTON/2/9/6/11/5/1
Part of:
Sets of Fingerprints
  • Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Description

Small wooden box labelled "Selected Specimens for peculiarities & suffixes". The date Oct 26/94 is visible in pencil. Contains the following: Two glass slides fastened together with a paper cover (a mark on one of the slides is just visible beneath the paper); an empty envelope addressed to Galton used as a marker; two small paper packages containing examples of fingerprints and some loose fingerprints.

Publication/Creation

c1894

Physical description

1 box with enclosures

Location of duplicates

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

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.

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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.

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