Finger Prints The Classic 1892 Treatise Author:Francis Galton 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 in... more »heritance of fingerprint traits. 34 tables. 15 plates.« less