Finger Prints by Francis Galton : image 0166

136

FINGER PRINTS CHAP.

only and in the fore-fingers only, and (3) of disregarding the slopes altogether. Also in each of these three cases taking account of

(a) All the ten digits ;

(b) the fore, middle, and ring -fingers of both hands;

(d) the fore and middle fingers of the right hand.

TABLE X.

No. of different index-heads in 100 sets of Finger Prints.

No. of digits regarded.		Account taken of
No. of digits regarded.	Digits noted.	All slopes.	i and o in fore-fingers.	No slope.
10	All the 10 digits . .	8 2	7 6	71
6	Fore, middle, and ring- fingers of both hands	65	50	43
3	Of right hand only . .	25	16,	14
2	Fore and middle of right hand only	12	8	7

The column headed "all slopes" refers to the method first used with success, and described in my Memoir, already alluded to (Proc. Roy. Soc., 1891). accompanied by a specimen index, from which the present one was derived. There the direction of the slope of every pattern that has one, is taken into account, and in order to give as much scope as

OCR Rendition - approximate