INDEX

AH, number of ridges in, 200 Allix, 60 A. L. W. system, 80 Ambiguities in minutiæ, 91, 111 America, 163 Anthropometric laboratory, 4, 35 Arches, 7, 75, 78; interpretations of, 114, 193 Artisans, 59 Artists, 58 Assyrian bricks, 25 Atkinson, R. F., 192 Author, the, finger prints of, 8, 58, 73 Axis of pattern, 68 Ball for inking, 42 Ball of thumb, 96 Basques, 18, 192 Bearings as by compass, 84 Beech, Dr. Fletcher, 197 Benzole, 36, 41 Bertillon, 2, 15, 154, 169; Bertillonage, 155, 164, 167 Bewick, 26 Bible, the, 22 Bifurcations, 91 Binomial law, 11, 112 Bird’s nest, 34 Blacklead, 49 Blood as ink, 45 Bowditch, H. P., Professor, 47 British Museum, 25 Brobdingnags, 1 Brothers, 171 Burns of finger, 59 C. set of standard patterns, 177 Callosities, 59 Cambo, 18, 192 Camera lucida, 52, 104 Cards, 38; keeping in order, 145 Casts, 49 Centesimal scale, 12, 17, 124, 129, 182 Cheiromancy, 1, 26; creases, 56 Chequer-work, 106 Chess board, 106 Chinese deed, 24; money, 25; cheiromancy, 26; registration of Chinese, 26, 152 Cicatrix, 59 Circular patterns, optical illusion, 77 Collins, F. H., 17, 21, 177, 190, 193 Collodion, 51 Colour-blindness, 71 Comparison of prints, 90, 167 Compass bearings, 84 Compasses, test by the points of, 61 Copper sheeting for inking, 42; for smoking, 48 Cores, 6, 76, 145 Correlation, 158 Couplets of digits, 119; of A and B brothers, 172 Creases, 1, 56; in infant, 57 Criminals, 149 Crosse, Dr., 192 Cylinder, revolving, 49 Dabs by the finger, 40, 90, 153 Darenth Asylum, 19, 197 Demography, Congress of, 163 Deserters, 149, 164 Development, 58 Digits, peculiarities of, 114 Direction of twist, 78 Divergence of ridges, 68 Drawing master, 48 Ducts, 57 Dyes, 44 Ear-marking the A, B sets of brothers, 172 Embryology, 58 Enclosures within ridges, 92 English, the, 17, 192 Enlargements, 51 Envelopes to rods or staples, 76 Error, law of, 19, 198; “probable,” 199 Evidential Value, Chap. VII., 100 Evolution, 20, 60 Eyes in patterns, 143 Fauld, Mr., 26 Feet, prints of, 45; ridges on, 57, 58 Féré, M., 197 Ferris, Major, 149 Ferro-prussiate process, 51, 53, 90 File, 63 Flexure, lines of, in palm, 56 Focus of eye, range of, 72 Folders;—inked, 42; smoked, 48 Foot-paths, 107 Forgeot, Dr., 46 Forks, 91 Fraternity, 16, 171 Frequency of error, law of, 19, 198 Funnel, 36 Furrows, not followed, 82 G——, Sir W., 89, 97 Genera, Chap. XIII., 198; the nine chief genera, 6, 80 Glass, temporary prints on, 30; etched, 47; for lantern, 51 Glue, 48 Goldie, Sir G. T., 192 Granulations on rollers, 34 Greenleaf, Col. C. R., 164 Gulliver, 1 Gum, 48 Gutta-percha, 50 Hand, 23, 45 Harrild, Messrs., 36, 41 Hawksley, 42 Haycraft, Dr. J. B., 51 Head-length and breadth, 158 Hebrews, 18, 192, 194 Herbette, M., 168 Heredity, Chap. XI., 170; see also 16 Herschel, Sir W. J., 4, 9, 27; instructions for printing, 45; data for persistence, 89; right fore-finger of, 95; official experience, 27, 149, 153 Hindoos, 152 I (or Inner side), 70 Identification, 147; see Jezebel, 113 Idiots, 8, 19, 59, 197 Illusion, 66, 77 Indexing, power of, 14, 139, 167; methods of, 131; specimen of, 133; search in, 166 India-rubber for roller, 40 Ink, printer’s, 37; for stamp, 45 Inner side, 70 Interpolation of ridges, 102, 104 Interspace, 54, 67 Interval, equally discernible, 65, 101 Islands, 92 Japan, 23, 26 Jews, 18, 192, 194 Jezebel, 113 Kensington, S., my laboratory at, 4, 35 Klaatsch, Dr. H., 60 Kollmann, Dr. A., 58 Labels, gummed, as for luggage, 48 Laboratory, anthropometric, 4, 35 Labourers, 59, 197 Lace, 9, 98 Ladies’ hands, ridges on, 32 Language, inadequacy of, 172 Lankester, Prof. Ray, 45 Left and right, 70 Lenses, 72 Letters, alike when reversed, 71 Licked paper, 48 Linen-tester (lens), 73 Linseed oil, 37 Litharge, 35 Lithography, 43 Loops, 7, 75, 78; predominance of, 101; relationships of, 184; on thumbs, 200; typical shape of, 207 Lying Bob, 27 Lyon, 155 Mammalia, 60 Marseille, 155 Measurement of patterns, 82 Memoirs by the author, 3 Methods of Indexing, Chap. IX., 131 Methods of Printing, Chap. III., 30 Mica, 47, 51 Minutiæ, 54; ambiguities in, 91, 99 Monkey pattern, 18, 54, 77; ridges on tail, 60; Purkenje on, 86, 88; stuffed, 97 Morgue, 148; see Jezebel, 113 Mould for casting rollers, 40 Mountain ranges, 32 Mucilage, 48 Mummies, ridges still visible, 97 Nail-marks, 25, 67 Natural selection, 20, 210 Negro, 18, 192, 195; cheiromancy, 26 Ngeu-yang-siun, 25 Notes, musical, 63 Oil, oxidisation of, 34, 43; for ink, 37 Orientation, 68 Outer side, 70 Outlines, 6, 69; followed with a point, 74 Overtones, 63 Pacinian bodies, 60 Pad for stamp, 32, 44; of paper, 38 Palm of the hand, 54, 88, 113 Palmistry, 1, 26; see Cheiromancy, 56 Panmixia, 20, 209 Pantagraph, 52 Paper in pads, 38; see Cards Papillæ, 60 Paraffin, 36 Paris, 155 Passports, 15, 149 Paste, 48 Patterns: Their Outlines and Cores, Chap. V., 64; see also 2, 54, 170; number of easily distinguishable patterns, 100; standard, 74, 80; ditto C. set, 177; percentage frequency of, 115 Peculiarities of the Digits, Chap. VIII., 114 Persistence, Chap. VI., 89 Personal Identification, Chap. X., 147; see also 16, 113; lecture on, 2 Photographers, 147; photographs, 3, 51 Plots, triangular, 67, 82 Plumbago, 49 Pocket printing apparatus, 40 Points of reference, 90 Poole, Mr. S. L., 25 Pores, 57 Previous Use of Finger Prints, Chap. II., 22 Printing, the methods of, 30; printer’s ink, 35 Prism, 52, 104 Purkenje’s Commentatio, 84; see also 8, 64, 67; on slope of loop, 119 Races and Classes, Chap. XII., 192; see also 17 Radial, 70 Random events, 172; see also 126 Razor, prints on, 30 Reconstruction of hidden ridges, 102 Reeves and Co., 35 Registration in India, 28, 151 Regression, 21, 171 Relationship in fingers, 12, 123; fraternal, 171, 175; in twins, 185; filial, 190; ditto of like-patterned parents, 187; in patterns, 178; paternal and maternal, 190 Reticulation, 108 Reversals, 43, 71 Ridges and Their Uses, Chap. IV., 54; see also low relief of ridges, 32; counting them, 73; ridge-interval, 62:—measurement by, 83; squares of one in the side, 102; of six, 103; of five, 107, 111 Right and left, 70 Robinson, Dr. Louis, 45 Rods, 76 Rolled prints, 7, 39, 68 Roller, 36; small, 40 Royal Institution, 2 Sand, ridges on, 54 Scars, 59, 97 Seal, 22; sealing-wax casts, 50 Seamstresses, 59 Selection, 20, 209 Shrimps, 210 Signalements, 156 Size (glue), 48, 49 Skin disease on fingers, 122 Slab, 4, 35, 41 Slopes, 136; on fore-finger, 118 Smart, Major Charles, 164 Smoke-prints, 47 Snow on mountain ranges, 32 Soda (washing), 36, 41 Spielman, Isidore, Mr., 192 Spirals, 74 Sports, 20, 211 Squares (interpolations), 10, 101 Standard patterns, 74, 76; the C. set, 177 Staples, 76, 83 Stereoscope, 9 Students, in Art and Science, 197 Surnames, Hindoo and Chinese, 14, 152 Swift, Dean, 1 Symbols for patterns, 144 Systems of ridges on palm, 54 Tables, see list of, p. xiii. Tabor, Mr., 26 Tabulations, 179 Tang dynasty, 25 Tattoo marks, 97 Taylor, T. Meadows, Mr., 24 Teeth, 166 Tests of calculated Randoms, 173; of classification, 179 Thompson, Gilbert, Mr., 27, 44 Thrills, their relation to notes, 63 Thumb, loops on, 200; ball of, 96, 98 Tipsahi, 24 Titchener, E. B., Mr., 62 Title-page, prints on, 8, 58, 73; index-number to them, 135 Toes, 57 Tools, callosities caused by, 59 Transitional patterns, 79, 143, 178 Triangular plots, 67, 86, 87 Turpentine, 36 Twins, 17, 167, 185 Twist, direction of, 78 Type, 19, 198 Ulnar, 70 United States, system used in, 15, 164 Variation, 20, 211 Varnish, prints on when undried, 50 Velvet, 63 Wall-paper, 66 Water colours, 44 Wax;—sealing, 50; dentist’s, 50 Weldon, Prof., 210 Welsh, the, 17, 192 Wen-teh, the Empress, 25 Whitening, 49 Whorls, 7, 75, 78 Wundt, Professor, laboratory at Leipzig, 62

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Footnotes:

[1] Der Tastapparat der Hand der menschlichen Rassen und der Affen. Dr. Arthur Kollmann. Leopold Voss, Leipzig, 1883. He has also published a more recent memoir.

[2] “Morphologie der Tastballen der Saugethiere,” Jahrbuch, xiv. p. 407. Leipzig, 1888.

[3] Ann. Sc. Nat., 5th series, vol. ix. 1868.

[4] The Latin is obscure. “Mira vallecularum tangentium in interna parte manus pedisque ... dispositio flexuraque attentionem ... in se trahit.” There are three ways of translating “tangentium,” and none of them makes good sense. In the index of prints he uses the phrase “vallecularum tactui.” It would seem that he looked upon the furrows, and not the ridges, as the special seat of touch.

[5] The results arrived at by M. Féré in a Memoir (Comptes Rendus, Soc. Biologie, July 2, 1891; Masson, 120 Boulevard St. Germain, Paris) may be collated with mine. The Memoir is partly a review of my paper in the Phil. Trans., and contains many observations of his own. His data are derived from epileptics and others mentally affected. He has, by the way, curiously misinterpreted my views about symmetry.

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