A reissue of two accounts, from 1912 and 1916, discussing the development of fingerprinting as a forensic tool.

Reproduction of the original: Dactylography by Henry Faulds

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "pub

This work presents a concise record of the origin of the fingerprint method of personal identification, from its discovery in Bengal in 1858 to its public demon

Fingerprints constitute one of the most important categories of physical evidence, and it is among the few that can be truly individualized. During the last two