AH, number of ridges in,200Allix,60A. L. W. system,80Ambiguities in minutiæ,91,111America,163Anthropometric laboratory,4,35Arches,7,75,78;interpretations of,114,193Artisans,59Artists,58Assyrian bricks,25Atkinson, R. F.,192Author, the, finger prints of,8,58,73Axis of pattern,68Ball for inking,42Ball of thumb,96Basques,18,192Bearings as by compass,84Beech, Dr. Fletcher,197Benzole,36,41Bertillon,2,15,154,169;Bertillonage,155,164,167Bewick,26Bible, the,22Bifurcations,91Binomial law,11,112Bird’s nest,34Blacklead,49Blood as ink,45Bowditch, H. P., Professor,47British Museum,25Brobdingnags,1Brothers,171Burns of finger,59C. set of standard patterns,177Callosities,59Cambo,18,192Camera lucida,52,104Cards,38;keeping in order,145Casts,49Centesimal scale,12,17,124,129,182Cheiromancy,1,26;creases,56Chequer-work,106Chess board,106Chinese deed,24;money,25;cheiromancy,26;registration of Chinese,26,152Cicatrix,59Circular patterns, optical illusion,77Collins, F. H.,17,21,177,190,193Collodion,51Colour-blindness,71Comparison of prints,90,167Compass bearings,84Compasses, test by the points of,61Copper sheeting for inking,42;for smoking,48Cores,6,76,145Correlation,158Couplets of digits,119;of A and B brothers,172Creases,1,56;in infant,57Criminals,149Crosse, Dr.,192Cylinder, revolving,49Dabs by the finger,40,90,153Darenth Asylum,19,197Demography, Congress of,163Deserters,149,164Development,58Digits, peculiarities of,114Direction of twist,78Divergence of ridges,68Drawing master,48Ducts,57Dyes,44Ear-marking the A, B sets of brothers,172Embryology,58Enclosures within ridges,92English, the,17,192Enlargements,51Envelopes to rods or staples,76Error, law of,19,198;“probable,”199Evidential Value, Chap. VII.,100Evolution,20,60Eyes in patterns,143Fauld, Mr.,26Feet, prints of,45;ridges on,57,58Féré, M.,197Ferris, Major,149Ferro-prussiate process,51,53,90File,63Flexure, lines of, in palm,56Focus of eye, range of,72Folders;—inked,42;smoked,48Foot-paths,107Forgeot, Dr.,46Forks,91Fraternity,16,171Frequency of error, law of,19,198Funnel,36Furrows, not followed,82G——, Sir W.,89,97Genera, Chap. XIII.,198;the nine chief genera,6,80Glass, temporary prints on,30;etched,47;for lantern,51Glue,48Goldie, Sir G. T.,192Granulations on rollers,34Greenleaf, Col. C. R.,164Gulliver,1Gum,48Gutta-percha,50Hand,23,45Harrild, Messrs.,36,41Hawksley,42Haycraft, Dr. J. B.,51Head-length and breadth,158Hebrews,18,192,194Herbette, M.,168Heredity, Chap. XI.,170;see also16Herschel, Sir W. J.,4,9,27;instructions for printing,45;data for persistence,89;right fore-finger of,95;official experience,27,149,153Hindoos,152I (or Inner side),70Identification,147;seeJezebel,113Idiots,8,19,59,197Illusion,66,77Indexing, power of,14,139,167;methods of,131;specimen of,133;search in,166India-rubber for roller,40Ink, printer’s,37;for stamp,45Inner side,70Interpolation of ridges,102,104Interspace,54,67Interval, equally discernible,65,101Islands,92Japan,23,26Jews,18,192,194Jezebel,113Kensington, S., my laboratory at,4,35Klaatsch, Dr. H.,60Kollmann, Dr. A.,58Labels, gummed, as for luggage,48Laboratory, anthropometric,4,35Labourers,59,197Lace,9,98Ladies’ hands, ridges on,32Language, inadequacy of,172Lankester, Prof. Ray,45Left and right,70Lenses,72Letters, alike when reversed,71Licked paper,48Linen-tester (lens),73Linseed oil,37Litharge,35Lithography,43Loops,7,75,78;predominance of,101;relationships of,184;on thumbs,200;typical shape of,207Lying Bob,27Lyon,155Mammalia,60Marseille,155Measurement of patterns,82Memoirs by the author,3Methods of Indexing, Chap. IX.,131Methods of Printing, Chap. III.,30Mica,47,51Minutiæ,54;ambiguities in,91,99Monkey pattern,18,54,77;ridges on tail,60;Purkenje on,86,88;stuffed,97Morgue,148;seeJezebel,113Mould for casting rollers,40Mountain ranges,32Mucilage,48Mummies, ridges still visible,97Nail-marks,25,67Natural selection,20,210Negro,18,192,195;cheiromancy,26Ngeu-yang-siun,25Notes, musical,63Oil, oxidisation of,34,43;for ink,37Orientation,68Outer side,70Outlines,6,69;followed with a point,74Overtones,63Pacinian bodies,60Pad for stamp,32,44;of paper,38Palm of the hand,54,88,113Palmistry,1,26;seeCheiromancy,56Panmixia,20,209Pantagraph,52Paper in pads,38;seeCardsPapillæ,60Paraffin,36Paris,155Passports,15,149Paste,48Patterns: Their Outlines and Cores, Chap. V.,64;see also2,54,170;number of easily distinguishable patterns,100;standard,74,80;ditto C. set,177;percentage frequency of,115Peculiarities of the Digits, Chap. VIII.,114Persistence, Chap. VI.,89Personal Identification, Chap. X.,147;see also16,113;lecture on,2Photographers,147;photographs,3,51Plots, triangular,67,82Plumbago,49Pocket printing apparatus,40Points of reference,90Poole, Mr. S. L.,25Pores,57Previous Use of Finger Prints, Chap. II.,22Printing, the methods of,30;printer’s ink,35Prism,52,104Purkenje’sCommentatio,84;see also8,64,67;on slope of loop,119Races and Classes, Chap. XII.,192;see also17Radial,70Random events,172;see also126Razor, prints on,30Reconstruction of hidden ridges,102Reeves and Co.,35Registration in India,28,151Regression,21,171Relationship in fingers,12,123;fraternal,171,175;in twins,185;filial,190;ditto of like-patterned parents,187;in patterns,178;paternal and maternal,190Reticulation,108Reversals,43,71Ridges and Their Uses, Chap. IV.,54;see alsolow 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,107,111Right and left,70Robinson, Dr. Louis,45Rods,76Rolled prints,7,39,68Roller,36;small,40Royal Institution,2Sand, ridges on,54Scars,59,97Seal,22;sealing-wax casts,50Seamstresses,59Selection,20,209Shrimps,210Signalements,156Size (glue),48,49Skin disease on fingers,122Slab,4,35,41Slopes,136;on fore-finger,118Smart, Major Charles,164Smoke-prints,47Snow on mountain ranges,32Soda (washing),36,41Spielman, Isidore, Mr.,192Spirals,74Sports,20,211Squares (interpolations),10,101Standard patterns,74,76;the C. set,177Staples,76,83Stereoscope,9Students, in Art and Science,197Surnames, Hindoo and Chinese,14,152Swift, Dean,1Symbols for patterns,144Systems of ridges on palm,54Tables,seelist of, p.xiii.Tabor, Mr.,26Tabulations,179Tang dynasty,25Tattoo marks,97Taylor, T. Meadows, Mr.,24Teeth,166Tests of calculated Randoms,173;of classification,179Thompson, Gilbert, Mr.,27,44Thrills, their relation to notes,63Thumb, loops on,200;ball of,96,98Tipsahi,24Titchener, E. B., Mr.,62Title-page, prints on,8,58,73;index-number to them,135Toes,57Tools, callosities caused by,59Transitional patterns,79,143,178Triangular plots,67,86,87Turpentine,36Twins,17,167,185Twist, direction of,78Type,19,198Ulnar,70United States, system used in,15,164Variation,20,211Varnish, prints on when undried,50Velvet,63Wall-paper,66Water colours,44Wax;—sealing,50;dentist’s,50Weldon, Prof.,210Welsh, the,17,192Wen-teh, the Empress,25Whitening,49Whorls,7,75,78Wundt, 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 thePhil. 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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