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CONTENTS

CHAPTER I

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INTRODUCTION   1

 

CHAPTER II

 

PREVIOUS USE OF FINGER PAINTS

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Superstition of personal contact

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Rude hand-prints

23

Seals to documents

23

Chinese finger marks .

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The tipsahi of Bengal .

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Nail-marks on Assyrian bricks .

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Nail-mark on Chinese coins

25

Ridges and cheiromancy-China, Japan, and by negroes .

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Modern usage-Bewick, Fauld, Tabor, and G. Thompson

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Their official use by Sir W. J. Herschel

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Distinction between creases and ridges . Origin of the inquiry . , Summaries of the subsequent chapters

Viz. of   ii., 3 ;   iii., 4

v., 5 ;   vi., 8 ;   vii., 10;

viii., 12 ;   ix., 13 ;   x., 14;

xi., 16 ;   xii., 17 ;   xiii., 19 ;

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