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I HAVE been quite unable, since I saw Mr. Faulds' letter in your issue of October 4, to take the matter of it in hand hitherto; and I do so now only because I think Mr. Faulds is entitled to raise the question if he pleases. To the best of my knowledge, Mr. Faulds' letter of 1880 was, what he says it was, the first notice in the public papers, in your columns, of the value of finger-prints for the purpose of identification. His statement that he came upon it independently in 1879 (? 1878) commands acceptance as a matter of course. At the same time I scarcely think that such short experience as that justified his announcing that the finger-furrows were “for-ever unchanging.”
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HERSCHEL, W. Finger-Prints. Nature 51, 77–78 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/051077e0
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