Finger Prints by Francis Galton : image 0122

FINGER PRINTS

CHAP.

Order in the Figs.	Initials•	Digit of right hand.	Age at date of first print.	Dates of the two prints. - 1st. 2nd.	°~ &0 0 .3 P.4,0 C5 ~' •9 ao P4	Total	agreement points of in
Order in the Figs.	Initials•	Digit of right hand.	Age at date of first print.	Dates of the two prints. - 1st. 2nd.	°~ &0 0 .3 P.4,0 C5 ~' •9 ao P4	c? ~	w ~' 112 a 7.P, C4 b 60
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FIG. 20
1 • 2. FIG. 21 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. FIG. 2 2 1.	V. H. Hd. V. H. Hd. A. E. H. Hl. A. E. H. Hl. N. H. Tn. N. H. Tu. F. K. Ht. R. F. Hn. W. J. H1. W. J. Hl. W. J. Hl.	Fore Ring Fore Ring Fore Middle Fore Middle Thumb Ring Fore	2-1 21 8 8 28 28 28 31 30 31 31	1877-90 1877-90 1881-90 1881-90 1862-90 1862-90 1862-88 1859-90 1860-90 1859-90 1859-90	13 13 9 9 28 28 26 31 30 31 31	26 42 11 5 6 10 12 6 9 6 24	26 42 33 36 27 36 55 27 50 32 24
		Total	points	of agreement	•	157 1	-388 I
			Do.	of disagreement	.	157 1	-388 I

It is difficult to give a just estimate of the number of points of comparison that I have studied in other couplets of prints, because they were not examined as exhaustively as in these. There were no less than one hundred and eleven of them in the ball of the thumb of the child V. H. Hd., besides twenty-five in the imperfect prints of his middle and little fingers ; these alone raise the total of 389 to 525. I must on the whole have looked for more than 700 points of comparison, and ' have found agreement in every single case that was examined, except the one already mentioned in Fig. 20, of a ridge that was split in the child, but had closed up some few years later.

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