“Fingerprint” Faulds: The Rehabilitation of Henry Faulds (1843–1930)

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In a personal communication, Yoshihíro Fujíeda of Tokyo says that he was unable to identify the statue, but that there is “a monument to the birthplace of the dactylogram” at the site of Faulds' former house

Faulds H . On the identification of habitual criminals by finger-prints. Nature 1894; 50: 548

Faulds H . On the skin-furrows of the hand. Nature 1880; 22: 605

Faulds speculated that patterns might persist on the fingers of Egyptian mummies, and later confirmed that this was so on a visit to the British Museum

In his Guide to Finger-Print Identification (ref. 13): 41, Faulds states that Darwin's letter of 1880 is “now in possession of Dr Duncan, the learned secretary and librarian of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons in Glasgow [together with the] original proof sheet of a copper plate form for the fingers of the right hand which were done for me before that date by a Japanese engraver”

Pearson K (op. cit. ref. 3): vol. II, p. 195

Ibid.: vol. IIIa, p. 143

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Faulds H . Guide to Finger-Print Identification. Hanley: Wood Mitchell, 1905: 30

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Faulds H (op. cit. ref. 17): 46. “Five years of my early life was spent in learning a trade in Glasgow. … It seemed to me to have been an utter waste of time, but part of my duty was to deal with the arrangement, classifying and numbering immense varieties of [Paisley] patterns. … The immense significance of the variety in human finger-prints dawned on me very early.”

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Herschel WJ . Comment. Nature 1917; 98: 389

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