Beschreibung:
Landmark discusses the evidence validating fingerprints as a means of personal identification, permanence of the fingerprint characteristics, uniqueness of an assemblage of ridge details, and the variability and classifiable nature of finger patterns ? along with such fundamental investigations as biological and racial variations and the inheritance of fingerprint traits. 34 tables. 15 plates.
I. IntroductionII. Previous Use of Finger PrintsIII. Methods of PrintingIV. The Ridges and Their UsesV. Patterns: Their Outlines and CoresVI. PersistenceVII. Evidential ValueIX. Methods of IndexingX. Personal IdentificationXI. HeredityXIII. Genera