Short Bibliography
Asquith’s Committee.—[Blue Book.] “Identification of Habitual Criminals,” 1894.
Clemens, S. L. (Mark Twain.).—“Pudd’nhead Wilson” A story illustrating the principles of Finger-Print Identification.
Darwin, Charles.—“Origin of Species,” 1859; “Descent of Man,” 1871.
Devon, James.—“The Criminal and the Community,” 1912.
“Encyclopædia Britannica.”—“Finger Prints,” etc., 1911.
Faulds, Henry.—“On the Skin-furrows of the hands,” (Nature, chap. xxii., p. 605), 1880; “Dactyloscopy” (St. Thomas’s Hospital Gazette), January, 1904; “Guide to Finger-Print Identification,” 1905; “Finger Prints: a chapter in the History of their use for Personal Identification,” (Knowledge), April, 1911.
Ferrero, G. L.—“Criminal Man” (Lombroso’s), 1911.
Forgeot, René.—“Les empreintes latentes” (Thesis), 1891.
Galton, Francis.—“Identification by Finger-Tips” (The Nineteenth Century), August, 1891; “Finger Prints,” 1892; “Finger-Print Directories,” 1895.
Garson, J. G.—“Finger-Prints Classification” (Jour. Anthrop, Inst., chap. xxx. p. 101), 1900.
Glaister, J.—“Textbook of Medical Jurisprudence,” 1902 (and 2nd edition).
Gray, H.—“Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical,” (16th ed.) 1905.
Haddon, A. C.—“Races of Man, and their Distribution,” 1909; “History of Anthropology,” 1910.
Henry, E. R.—“Classification and Uses of Finger-Prints,” 1905.
Hepburn, D.-“The Papillary ridges on monkeys’ hands and feet,” (Nature, vol. liii., 36), 1895.
Herschel, W. J.—“Skin Furrows of the Hand,” (Nature, vol. xxii., 76), 1880.
Hopf, Ludwig. “The Human Species,” (Eng. trans.) 1909.
Lindsay, B.—“Animal Life.”
Marett, R.—“Anthropology.”
Mitchell. “Science and the Criminal,” 1911.
Purkinje, J. E. “Commentatio de examine physiologico organi visus et systematis cutanei,” 1823.
Schlaginhaufen, Otto. “Der Hautleistensystem der Primatenplanta” (with a valuable bibliography), Gegenbaur’s Jahrbüch, 1905.
Schofield, A. T. “Elementary Physiology for Students,” 1892.
Stewart, G. N. “Manual of Physiology,” 1910.
Thomson, J. A., and P. Geddes. “Evolution,” 1911.
Tylor. “Primitive Culture,” 1903.
Walker, N. “Introduction to Dermatology,” 1904.
Wallace, A. R. “The World of Life,” 1910.
Windt and Kodiček. “Daktyloskopie,” 1904.
Footnotes
A In Professor Giles’s Chinese-English Dictionary (1909) on page 223 some characters are given for “to make a finger-print,” etc.
B See Nature (January 17th, 1895), “Finger-Print Method,” Kumagusa Minakata.
C Guide to Finger-Print Identification (p. 11).
D See Guide to Finger-Print Identification (fig. 12)