GALTON PAPERS
Fingerprints
172/1. Programme for FG's lecture on 'The patterns
in thumb and finger marks' given at the Royal
Society Nov.27 1890. Annotated offprint of 1890 FG's paper 'Method of indexing finger-marks' Proc.Roy.Soc. 49, 540-48. Reprint of 'Imprints 1891 of the hand by-tr. Forgeot exhibited by FG'
J.Anthrop.Inst. Feb.1892 1892
172/2(A-D). Data, working papers, FG's notebooks 1891-2 on foot, hand and finger prints and their classification into whorls, loops and ridges. Eighty-two letters from
Collins, F.H. Tedder, H.R. Galton, Sir F. Wilder, H.H. Randall, A.I.
172/3(A-G). FG's notes on fingerprints and methods 1888-95 of taking them. Photographs and specimen fingerprints sent to FG including those of different races and social groups. Twenty-four letters from
Atkinson, R.W. Herschel, M.B.
Bennet, T. Herschel, Sir W.J.
Buchanan, W.J. Hodgson, T.V.
Butler, A.G. Holden, H.A.
Collins, F.H. Morrow, W.H.
Galton, Sir F. Read, Sir C.H.
Grant, A.E. Taber, I.W.
Henry, Sir E.R. Weldon, W.F.R.
172/4(A-E). FG's working papers, one notebook on 1892 heredity in fingerprints, including work on paternal and maternal transmission, fraternal (not twins) and on twins. Fifteen letters from
Collins, F.H. Hodgson, H.L.
Galton, Sir F. Joyce, M.S.
Guineas, A. Vernon, H.M.
172/5(A and B). Data, FG's working papers and a 1881,
green notebook on persistence in fingerprints, 1892-3 and on the Hooghly fingerprints. Four letters from
Herschel, Sir W.J.
172/6(A, B and C). Fingerprints of babies sent to 1895-1904 FG by Maud Gardiner Odell also fingerprints of American Indians, photographs and notes by FG. Eighteen letters from
Galton, Sir F. (types copies) 1897-1904
Odell, M.G. ;915
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