INDEX
AH, number of ridges in, [200]
Allix, [60]
A. L. W. system, [80]
Ambiguities in minutiæ, [91], [111]
America, [163]
Anthropometric laboratory, [4], [35]
Arches, [7], [75], [78];
interpretations of, [114], [193]
Artisans, [59]
Artists, [58]
Assyrian bricks, [25]
Atkinson, R. F., [192]
Author, the, finger prints of, [8], [58], [73]
Axis of pattern, [68]
Ball for inking, [42]
Ball of thumb, [96]
Basques, [18], [192]
Bearings as by compass, [84]
Beech, Dr. Fletcher, [197]
Benzole, [36], [41]
Bertillon, [2], [15], [154], [169];
Bertillonage, [155], [164], [167]
Bewick, [26]
Bible, the, [22]
Bifurcations, [91]
Binomial law, [11], [112]
Bird’s nest, [34]
Blacklead, [49]
Blood as ink, [45]
Bowditch, H. P., Professor, [47]
British Museum, [25]
Brobdingnags, [1]
Brothers, [171]
Burns of finger, [59]
C. set of standard patterns, [177]
Callosities, [59]
Cambo, [18], [192]
Camera lucida, [52], [104]
Cards, [38];
keeping in order, [145]
Casts, [49]
Centesimal scale, [12], [17], [124], [129], [182]
Cheiromancy, [1], [26];
creases, [56]
Chequer-work, [106]
Chess board, [106]
Chinese deed, [24];
money, [25];
cheiromancy, [26];
registration of Chinese, [26], [152]
Cicatrix, [59]
Circular patterns, optical illusion, [77]
Collins, F. H., [17], [21], [177], [190], [193]
Collodion, [51]
Colour-blindness, [71]
Comparison of prints, [90], [167]
Compass bearings, [84]
Compasses, test by the points of, [61]
Copper sheeting for inking, [42];
for smoking, [48]
Cores, [6], [76], [145]
Correlation, [158]
Couplets of digits, [119];
of A and B brothers, [172]
Creases, [1], [56];
in infant, [57]
Criminals, [149]
Crosse, Dr., [192]
Cylinder, revolving, [49]
Dabs by the finger, [40], [90], [153]
Darenth Asylum, [19], [197]
Demography, Congress of, [163]
Deserters, [149], [164]
Development, [58]
Digits, peculiarities of, [114]
Direction of twist, [78]
Divergence of ridges, [68]
Drawing master, [48]
Ducts, [57]
Dyes, [44]
Ear-marking the A, B sets of brothers, [172]
Embryology, [58]
Enclosures within ridges, [92]
English, the, [17], [192]
Enlargements, [51]
Envelopes to rods or staples, [76]
Error, law of, [19], [198];
“probable,” [199]
Evidential Value, Chap. VII., [100]
Evolution, [20], [60]
Eyes in patterns, [143]
Fauld, Mr., [26]
Feet, prints of, [45];
ridges on, [57], [58]
Féré, M., [197]
Ferris, Major, [149]
Ferro-prussiate process, [51], [53], [90]
File, [63]
Flexure, lines of, in palm, [56]
Focus of eye, range of, [72]
Folders;—inked, [42];
smoked, [48]
Foot-paths, [107]
Forgeot, Dr., [46]
Forks, [91]
Fraternity, [16], [171]
Frequency of error, law of, [19], [198]
Funnel, [36]
Furrows, not followed, [82]
G——, Sir W., [89], [97]
Genera, Chap. XIII., [198];
the nine chief genera, [6], [80]
Glass, temporary prints on, [30];
etched, [47];
for lantern, [51]
Glue, [48]
Goldie, Sir G. T., [192]
Granulations on rollers, [34]
Greenleaf, Col. C. R., [164]
Gulliver, [1]
Gum, [48]
Gutta-percha, [50]
Hand, [23], [45]
Harrild, Messrs., [36], [41]
Hawksley, [42]
Haycraft, Dr. J. B., [51]
Head-length and breadth, [158]
Hebrews, [18], [192], [194]
Herbette, M., [168]
Heredity, Chap. XI., [170];
see also [16]
Herschel, Sir W. J., [4], [9], [27];
instructions for printing, [45];
data for persistence, [89];
right fore-finger of, [95];
official experience, [27], [149], [153]
Hindoos, [152]
I (or Inner side), [70]
Identification, [147];
see Jezebel, [113]
Idiots, [8], [19], [59], [197]
Illusion, [66], [77]
Indexing, power of, [14], [139], [167];
methods of, [131];
specimen of, [133];
search in, [166]
India-rubber for roller, [40]
Ink, printer’s, [37];
for stamp, [45]
Inner side, [70]
Interpolation of ridges, [102], [104]
Interspace, [54], [67]
Interval, equally discernible, [65], [101]
Islands, [92]
Japan, [23], [26]
Jews, [18], [192], [194]
Jezebel, [113]
Kensington, S., my laboratory at, [4], [35]
Klaatsch, Dr. H., [60]
Kollmann, Dr. A., [58]
Labels, gummed, as for luggage, [48]
Laboratory, anthropometric, [4], [35]
Labourers, [59], [197]
Lace, [9], [98]
Ladies’ hands, ridges on, [32]
Language, inadequacy of, [172]
Lankester, Prof. Ray, [45]
Left and right, [70]
Lenses, [72]
Letters, alike when reversed, [71]
Licked paper, [48]
Linen-tester (lens), [73]
Linseed oil, [37]
Litharge, [35]
Lithography, [43]
Loops, [7], [75], [78];
predominance of, [101];
relationships of, [184];
on thumbs, [200];
typical shape of, [207]
Lying Bob, [27]
Lyon, [155]
Mammalia, [60]
Marseille, [155]
Measurement of patterns, [82]
Memoirs by the author, [3]
Methods of Indexing, Chap. IX., [131]
Methods of Printing, Chap. III., [30]
Mica, [47], [51]
Minutiæ, [54];
ambiguities in, [91], [99]
Monkey pattern, [18], [54], [77];
ridges on tail, [60];
Purkenje on, [86], [88];
stuffed, [97]
Morgue, [148];
see Jezebel, [113]
Mould for casting rollers, [40]
Mountain ranges, [32]
Mucilage, [48]
Mummies, ridges still visible, [97]
Nail-marks, [25], [67]
Natural selection, [20], [210]
Negro, [18], [192], [195];
cheiromancy, [26]
Ngeu-yang-siun, [25]
Notes, musical, [63]
Oil, oxidisation of, [34], [43];
for ink, [37]
Orientation, [68]
Outer side, [70]
Outlines, [6], [69];
followed with a point, [74]
Overtones, [63]
Pacinian bodies, [60]
Pad for stamp, [32], [44];
of paper, [38]
Palm of the hand, [54], [88], [113]
Palmistry, [1], [26];
see Cheiromancy, [56]
Panmixia, [20], [209]
Pantagraph, [52]
Paper in pads, [38];
see [Cards]
Papillæ, [60]
Paraffin, [36]
Paris, [155]
Passports, [15], [149]
Paste, [48]
Patterns: Their Outlines and Cores, Chap. V., [64];
see also [2], [54], [170];
number of easily distinguishable patterns, [100];
standard, [74], [80];
ditto C. set, [177];
percentage frequency of, [115]
Peculiarities of the Digits, Chap. VIII., [114]
Persistence, Chap. VI., [89]
Personal Identification, Chap. X., [147];
see also [16], [113];
lecture on, [2]
Photographers, [147];
photographs, [3], [51]
Plots, triangular, [67], [82]
Plumbago, [49]
Pocket printing apparatus, [40]
Points of reference, [90]
Poole, Mr. S. L., [25]
Pores, [57]
Previous Use of Finger Prints, Chap. II., [22]
Printing, the methods of, [30];
printer’s ink, [35]
Prism, [52], [104]
Purkenje’s Commentatio, [84];
see also [8], [64], [67];
on slope of loop, [119]
Races and Classes, Chap. XII., [192];
see also [17]
Radial, [70]
Random events, [172];
see also [126]
Razor, prints on, [30]
Reconstruction of hidden ridges, [102]
Reeves and Co., [35]
Registration in India, [28], [151]
Regression, [21], [171]
Relationship in fingers, [12], [123];
fraternal, [171], [175];
in twins, [185];
filial, [190];
ditto of like-patterned parents, [187];
in patterns, [178];
paternal and maternal, [190]
Reticulation, [108]
Reversals, [43], [71]
Ridges and Their Uses, Chap. IV., [54];
see also low 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], [111]
Right and left, [70]
Robinson, Dr. Louis, [45]
Rods, [76]
Rolled prints, [7], [39], [68]
Roller, [36];
small, [40]
Royal Institution, [2]
Sand, ridges on, [54]
Scars, [59], [97]
Seal, [22];
sealing-wax casts, [50]
Seamstresses, [59]
Selection, [20], [209]
Shrimps, [210]
Signalements, [156]
Size (glue), [48], [49]
Skin disease on fingers, [122]
Slab, [4], [35], [41]
Slopes, [136];
on fore-finger, [118]
Smart, Major Charles, [164]
Smoke-prints, [47]
Snow on mountain ranges, [32]
Soda (washing), [36], [41]
Spielman, Isidore, Mr., [192]
Spirals, [74]
Sports, [20], [211]
Squares (interpolations), [10], [101]
Standard patterns, [74], [76];
the C. set, [177]
Staples, [76], [83]
Stereoscope, [9]
Students, in Art and Science, [197]
Surnames, Hindoo and Chinese, [14], [152]
Swift, Dean, [1]
Symbols for patterns, [144]
Systems of ridges on palm, [54]
Tables, see list of, p. [xiii.]
Tabor, Mr., [26]
Tabulations, [179]
Tang dynasty, [25]
Tattoo marks, [97]
Taylor, T. Meadows, Mr., [24]
Teeth, [166]
Tests of calculated Randoms, [173];
of classification, [179]
Thompson, Gilbert, Mr., [27], [44]
Thrills, their relation to notes, [63]
Thumb, loops on, [200];
ball of, [96], [98]
Tipsahi, [24]
Titchener, E. B., Mr., [62]
Title-page, prints on, [8], [58], [73];
index-number to them, [135]
Toes, [57]
Tools, callosities caused by, [59]
Transitional patterns, [79], [143], [178]
Triangular plots, [67], [86], [87]
Turpentine, [36]
Twins, [17], [167], [185]
Twist, direction of, [78]
Type, [19], [198]
Ulnar, [70]
United States, system used in, [15], [164]
Variation, [20], [211]
Varnish, prints on when undried, [50]
Velvet, [63]
Wall-paper, [66]
Water colours, [44]
Wax;—sealing, [50];
dentist’s, [50]
Weldon, Prof., [210]
Welsh, the, [17], [192]
Wen-teh, the Empress, [25]
Whitening, [49]
Whorls, [7], [75], [78]
Wundt, Professor, laboratory at Leipzig, [62]
THE END
Printed by R. & R. Clark, Edinburgh.
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 the Phil. 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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