Papers on the origin and early years of the science of fingerprinting : mss., 1818-1916.

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Papers on the origin and early years of the science of fingerprinting : mss., 1818-1916.

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Contains correspondence, manuscripts of writings, photographs, printed documents, and original examples of fingerprints. Includes several portraits of Herschel.

10 boxes and 1 oversize folder (2.05 linear ft.)

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Herschel, William James

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William Herschel (1833-1917) was educated at Clapham Grammar School and the East India Company's college at Haileybury. His later career took him to India, where, as a magistrate in Hooghly, he instituted the first known system of fingerprinting in 1877-8. From the description of Professor Empson's lectures on moral philosophy and law, 1851-1852. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702179091 1866-1871 magistrate of Midnapore; 1871-1872 district judge of Dinajpur; 187...