Duplicate and Copy Prints

Date:
c1878-c1893
Reference:
GALTON/2/9/6/5/1
Part of:
Sir W J Herschel Fingerprint Material
  • Archives and manuscripts
  • Online

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Contains: 355 images

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Credit

Duplicate and Copy Prints. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider

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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Description

Duplicate hand-, finger- and thumbprints, and material relating to sets of fingerprints sent by Sir W J Herschel from Hooghly district in India which were used by Galton to track whether an individual's fingerprint changes over time.

Publication/Creation

c1878-c1893

Physical description

2 items

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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