Professionally rendered Japanese paper repair at the spine on Volume XLIX. Scuffing and rubbing at the edges, a bit more so at the head and foot of the spine. Exterior: Handsomely bound in worn half calf over marbled paper boards. Illustrations: Two tables and two figures pertaining to the 1891 Galton paper. Item #109 CONDITION & DETAILS: London: Harrison & Sons. He described and classified described and classified fingerprints into eight broad categories. They changed size with growth, but (with one small exception) they did not change in their minutia. Galton was able to establish that human fingerprints were remarkably stable from early youth to advanced age, even to after death. The papers can be viewed as the basis for his Galton’s "Finger-Prints" of 1892 (Printing and the Mind of Man 376). The second paper is a first edition, first printing. The first paper is an ‘Abstract’ of a paper appearing in the Transactions in the same year. Note that we offer separately Galton's 1888 paper developing and demonstrating what would become known as the correlation coefficient (the statistical concept of correlation or, at publication, 'Co-relation'). Galton provides a detailed statistical model of fingerprint analysis and identification and encourages its use the exhaustive statistical models he provides proved enough to encourage law enforcement to begin to use fingerprints and courts to then sanction that use. FIRST EDITIONS of Francis Galton’s important 18 papers providing a scientific basis and model for fingerprint identification and analysis, offered here in separate leather bound volumes.
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