. Personal identification; methods for the identification of individuals, living or dead. ater for some length of time and theflesh was almost gone. The only clue was that it was in the uniform of abluejacket. Now the United States Government takes the finger-prints of all enhsted men, including the Army, the Navy, and the MarineCorps, and if imprints from a member of either of these bodies are submittedto the Department an identification can be made. Although the fingersof this floating body were almost stripped, the naval surgeon who examinedthe body found a small strip of the pattern of the
. Personal identification; methods for the identification of individuals, living or dead. ater for some length of time and theflesh was almost gone. The only clue was that it was in the uniform of abluejacket. Now the United States Government takes the finger-prints of all enhsted men, including the Army, the Navy, and the MarineCorps, and if imprints from a member of either of these bodies are submittedto the Department an identification can be made. Although the fingersof this floating body were almost stripped, the naval surgeon who examinedthe body found a small strip of the pattern of the right index finger, andso skillfully manipulated it that he obtained a print, from which he couldascertain that the pattern was an arch. From others of the fingers he 76 Personal Identification obtained slight smears, and as a forlorn hope, sent the whole to expert of the Navy Department there went to the files, containing thefinger impressions of over 150,000 bluejackets, and after an hours searchidentified the dead man as a coal passer, who had been missing for about. Figure 13. Diagram showing the more usualhair currents upon the front or ventral aspect of thetrunk. (After Kidd.) a month. The mark of desertion was expunged from his record, and asum of money due him was paid to his next of kin. As the second part of this work is wholly taken up with the variousphases of friction-skin identification, and especially with the patterns onthe balls of the fingers, to which most of the attention has hitherto beendirected, the subject need not be treated further in this place, and thereader is referred there for details. It will be found there advocated, Fragmentary Remains; Bones and Teeth 77 (p. 185) that in view of the contingencies of life and the many instanceswhere a positive identification by the usual methods is difficult or impos-sible, a system of palm and sole records, including the finger prints,and applied to all citizens, be inaugurated, and that these
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