OCR Rendition - approximate

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viii   CONTENTS
CHAPTER VI
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PERSISTENCE	8 9
Evi ence . available	89
About thirty-five points of reference in each print	90
Photo-enlargement ; orientation ; tracing axes of ridges	90-91
Ambiguities in minutiae	91
V. H. Hd. as child and boy, a solitary change in one of the minutiae	92
Eight couplets from other persons	93
One from Sir W. G. .	9 5
Summary of 389 comparisons .	9 6
Ball of a thumb	96,
Results as to persistence	9 7

CHAPTER VII
EVIDENTIAL VALUE   100

Method of rough comparison .   100

Chance against guessing a pattern   101

 

Number of independent elements in a print-squares respectively of one, six, and five ridge-intervals in side Interpolation, three methods of .	101-103 103-105
Local accidents inside square .	107
Uncertainties outside it	109
Compound results Effect of failure in one, two, or more prints	110 ill
Final conclusions-Jezebel	112-113

CHAPTER VIII

PECULIARITIES OF THE DIGITS   114

Frequency per cent of arches, loops, and whorls generally,

and on the several digits   . 114-115

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