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CHAPTER VI |
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PERSISTENCE |
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Evi ence . available |
89 |
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About thirty-five points of reference in each print |
90 |
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Photo-enlargement ; orientation ; tracing axes of ridges |
90-91 |
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Ambiguities in minutiae |
91 |
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V. H. Hd. as child and boy, a solitary change in one of
the minutiae |
92 |
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Eight couplets from other persons |
93 |
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One from Sir W. G. . |
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Summary of 389 comparisons . |
9 6 |
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Ball of a thumb |
96, |
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Results as to persistence |
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CHAPTER VII
EVIDENTIAL VALUE 100
Method of rough comparison . 100
Chance against guessing a pattern 101
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Number of independent elements in a print-squares
respectively of one, six, and five ridge-intervals in side
Interpolation, three methods of . |
101-103
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Local accidents inside square . |
107 |
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Uncertainties outside it |
109 |
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Compound results
Effect of failure in one, two, or more prints |
110
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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
