Set of Three Hundred Fingerprints

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Wooden box labelled "The 300 sets of Fingerprints". Contains the following:
<li>Wooden tray divided into four compartments, each containing a bundle of fingerprint notation cards classified by patterns of arches, ridges, loops and whorls</li>
<li>Original labels from the box</li>
<li>Proof copy of the chapter "Specimen Directory of 300 Sets" from Galton's book <i>Fingerprint Directories</i></li>
<li>Index books</li>
<li>Sets of fingerprints on cards</li>

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