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Credit: Classification and uses of finger prints. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Thp: system provides for the formation of 1024 files or primary classification numbers. The data for the subclassification of 16 files are set forth in detail. Any other file may be sub- classified in the same way as one of these 16. The combinations or groups here shown being in excess of the requirements of the largest collection, only some are brought into use. Groups are disposed amongst themselves in files or subfiles in the sequence indicated, viz. ' ^ ^ ] Aa , 10, II 10 , II IM 10 -5 etc., or J ; etc., or ; etc., or ^ ; ^ 5 n' etc.,—a sequence easily remembered. Capital letters refer to the index finger (fulcrum), small letters to the left of the capital referring to the thumb, those to the right of the capital letter referring to the other digits. When Arches, Tented Arches, and Radials occur in the subclassification formula, the slip will be found in the subfile indicated by the capital letters where its location is thus determined : Tented Arches come immediately after Arches, and Radials after Tented Arches. If the formula is 7 ^5 sub- A file ^ is taken up^ and then the slip will be found arranged below the last slip of j j slip \ 119](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21463402_0137.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
