How the English fingerprint method arose / [Henry Faulds].

  • Faulds, Henry, 1843-1930.
Date:
[1915?]
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Credit: How the English fingerprint method arose / [Henry Faulds]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “GUIDE TO FINGER PRINT IDENTIFICATION.” By HENRY FAULDS, L.F.P.S., Mem. London Sociological Society, &c. Many years Surgeon-Superintendent of Tsukiji Hospital, Tokyo, Japan. -- PRICE:—Full Cloth, lettered in Gold, 3/6 net; Stiffened Paper Cover, 2/- net. Postage 3d. extra. -3+C-- PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR BY Wood, Mitchell & Co., Ltd., Printers & Publishers, Hanley. The author was the first to publish a proposal to use Finger-prints for identification, in Nature, October 28th, 1880, and was the only expert invited to give evidence before a Govern¬ ment Committee in 1902. Two months afterwards Finger-prints came into official use for the recognition of old offenders, and their use is increasingly successful. Every important point in Finger-print study is copiously illustrated by diagrams, nature-prints, and photographic enlargements, including some prints from the paws of monkeys. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. There seems not a shadow of doubt that to Mr. Faulds belongs the honour of priority' of publication in this matter.—Daily Chronicle (Review signed “Tighe Hopkins”). 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. Illustrated with photographs and charts, the book may be recommended as a practical and useful study of the subject.—The Scotsman. A zealous and original investigator of finger-prints.He can write well, and the photographic illustrations which his publisher has supplied are excellent.—Nature. Contains the fruits of over thirty years’ study by' the pioneer of the now universally accepted system, Mr. Henry Faulds.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.—Westminster Gazette. Credit where credit is due. Mr. Henry Faulds’ claim to honourable mention in connection with the system . . . has been strangely overlooked. . . . His treatment of the “mask murders ” case, for instance, is admirable. . . . This is altogether a very sane little treatise. It should be in the hands of everyone who has to do with identification by finger-patterns.—The Law Times. The reader is almost bound to be struck by the doctor’s caution. He is fully' alive to the dangers of the system in the hands of the incompetent, and he reiterates the necessity of the work being undertaken by experts with a scientific training. . . . The doctor may be congratulated on his aim to be thoroughly practical without being unduly technical.—The Hongkong Daily Press. This work contains a clear account of the principles of dactylography, or finger-print study, &c. . . . The author rightly' thinks that the readings of finger-print evidence should be submitted to the scientific expert, who alone can keep this kind of evidence free from fallacy ; to depend upon partially skilled persons must be a grave danger from a public point of view.— The Lancet. A most valuable scheme under proper safeguards. Both the scheme and the safeguards are adequately dealt with here.—The Law Magazine and Review,