Dactylography

Palmar. Of front surface of the hand.

Papilla (pl. Papillæ). Elements in a ridge where touch organs are.

“Photograph.” Used sometimes legally for finger-prints.

Pocket Loop. A variety of imperfect loop.

Positive. A finger-print where ridges appear black (or other colour of pigment used) and furrows are white.

Primates. An order of animals, including lemurs, monkeys, apes, and man.

Radial. The thumb side of the hand (opposed to Ulnar.)

Recognition. An identification.

Recidivist. A relapsing or incorrigible criminal.

Ridge. A line of skin tissue, elevated, with sweat-pores.

Rod. A figure like a rod.

Rolled Print. A finger-print not taken by direct or plain impress, but by a revolution of the inked surface on flat paper.

Ruga (pl. Rugæ). A ridge.

Searcher. One who seeks for a former registration.

Sebaceous. Of the greasy excretion of the skin.

Smudge. A blurred or dull imprint.

Staple. A figure like a U inverted; thus,

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Sudor. Sweat.

Sudoriparous. Of sweat, sweat-yielding.

Sulcus (pl. Sulci). A skin groove or furrow.

Twinned Loop. Two adjoining loops in a core, complementary in position.

Tented Arch. An arch shaped like a tent or volcanic mountain.

Terminus. A term used for distinctive points within and without a core.

Ulnar. The little finger side of the hand. (Opposed to Radial).

Verso. May be used for an imprint as the converse of the fleshy pattern.

Whorl. A flat spiral figure.

Widdershins. The reverse of a clock-hand’s movement.

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)