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Dactylography or, the Study of Fingerprints

Dactylography or, the Study of Fingerprints

by Henry Faulds

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Author
Faulds, Henry, 1843-1930
Title
Dactylography; Or, The Study of Finger-prints
Credits
Produced by Chris Curnow, Thiers Halliwell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
HV: Social sciences: Social pathology, Social and Public Welfare
Subject
Fingerprints
Category
Text
eBook-No.
47911
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47911
Release Date
January 8, 2015
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.DACTYLOGRAPHY OR THE STUDY OF FINGER-PRINTS
  2. 2.CONTENTS.
  3. 3.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  4. 4.CHAPTER I — INTRODUCTION: EARLY HINTS AND RECENT PROGRESS
  5. 5.CHAPTER II — SWEAT-PORES, RIDGES AND FURROWS
  6. 6.CHAPTER III — FINGER-PRINT PATTERNS
  7. 7.CHAPTER IV — SOME BIOLOGICAL QUESTIONS IN DACTYLOGRAPHY.
  8. 8.CHAPTER V — TECHNIQUE OF PRINTING AND SCRUTINIZING FINGER-PATTERNS
  9. 9.CHAPTER VI — PERSISTENCE OF PATTERNS
  10. 10.CHAPTER VII — THE SYLLABIC CLASSIFICATION OF FINGER-PRINTS
  11. 11.CHAPTER VIII — PRACTICAL RESULTS AND FUTURE PROSPECTS OF DACTYLOGRAPHY
  12. 12.GLOSSARY — OF SOME TERMS USED BY DACTYLOGRAPHERS.
  13. 13.SHORT BIBLIOGRAPHY.
  14. 14.INDEX.
  15. 15.FOOTNOTES:

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