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Francis Galton Promotes Finger Prints as a Means of Identification

1892
One of the more distinctive title pages ever published included Galton's own finger prints.

One of the more distinctive title pages ever published included Galton's own finger prints.

In 1892 Victorian polymath, geographer, meteorologist, explorer, statistician, psychometrician, and proto-geneticist Francis Galton published a detailed statistical model of fingerprint analysis and identification, and encouraged their use in forensic science in his book, Finger Prints published in London.

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