The hidden hand : a contribution to the history of finger prints / [Henry Faulds].
- Faulds, Henry, 1843-1930.
- Date:
- [1920]
Licence: In copyright
Credit: The hidden hand : a contribution to the history of finger prints / [Henry Faulds]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![CONTRIBUTIONS ON THE SUBJECT OF FINGER-PRINTS By the AUTHOR. On the Skin-furrows of the Hand. “ Nature/’ October 28th, i88q. * Dactyloscopy. St Thomas's Hospital Gazette, iqoy. Guide to Finger-Print Identification. Wood, Mitchell & Co., Stoke-on-Trent, 1905. Opinions of the Press. The article in Nature, 1880, was the first published suggestion, and was no doubt quite original on the part of the writer, to whom belongs all the credit due. — The Times. A zealous and original investigator of finger-prints . . . He can write well, and the photographic illustrations which his publisher has supplied are excel¬ lent.—Sir F. Galton, in Nature. A particularly lucid account of a complicated subject, and is interesting not only to specialists but to the general reader and the curiosity hunter alike. — The Westminster Gazette. This is altogether a very sane little treatise. It should be in the hands of every onejwho has to do with identification by finger-patterns.— The Law Times. A most valuable scheme under proper safe-guards. Both the scheme and the safe-guards are adequately dealt with here.-— The Law Magazine and Review. How the English Finger-Print Method arose. A pamphlet for local circulation. Wood, Mitchell & Co. Finger-Prints. A chapter in the history of their use for personal identification, “Knowledge,” April, 1911. Dactylography, or the Study of Finger-Prints. [xxth Century Science Series] Milner & Co., Halifax, 1912. [Press Notices of Dactylography]. (The Author) here writes in an interesting way on a subject with which his name has long been associated as an authority, and the reader is provided with a trustworthy account of the technique of printing and scrutinising finger-patterns —and of classifying them.—Nature. . . . . A chapter of the book is devoted to the exposition of a syllabic method of classifying finger-prints, which appears to the layman most clear and valuable .... We think the student of finger-prints cannot fail to be instructed and helped by a perusal of its contents.—Police Review. Poroscopy, the Scrutiny of Sweat-Pores for Identification. “Nature,” August 21st, 1913.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30622451_0014.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
