Supplementary Chapter To Finger Prints

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"Cole excavates the forgotten and hidden history of criminal identification--from photography to exotic anthropometric systems based on measuring body parts, from fingerprinting to DNA typing"--Jacket.

First published between 1914 and 1930, this biography offers a fascinating insight into the life of the eugenicist Francis Galton.