. Personal identification; methods for the identification of individuals, living or dead. all the figures, as calculated (the 100th power of 4), while thelatter uses ciphers to mark the places following the first digit. Their re-sults are thus as follows: Balthazard: 1,606,937,974,174,171,729,761,809,705,564,167,968,221,-676,069,604,401,795,301,376. Seymour: 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,- 000,000,000,000,000,000,000. Something of the possibilities of variation in a finger print may beshown by a glance at the following five illustrations, which show some of *Galton used
. Personal identification; methods for the identification of individuals, living or dead. all the figures, as calculated (the 100th power of 4), while thelatter uses ciphers to mark the places following the first digit. Their re-sults are thus as follows: Balthazard: 1,606,937,974,174,171,729,761,809,705,564,167,968,221,-676,069,604,401,795,301,376. Seymour: 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,- 000,000,000,000,000,000,000. Something of the possibilities of variation in a finger print may beshown by a glance at the following five illustrations, which show some of *Galton used the English method of notation, and wrote sixty-four thousandmillions.^—Finger Prints, p. 110. No Two Identical Finger Prints 323 the details of certain complicated forms,— which show well their individualvariation when compared with Figure 126 and with each other. Figure129 is a typical twin loop, with numerous islands, in rows between theridges, suggesting that these minute parts are the vestiges of ridges, lostor suppressed during early development; and Figure 130 shows the 35. Figure 129. A typical Twin-Loop,magnified 2 diameters. Note the numer-ous suppressed ridges, alternating withthe well-developed ones. So far as hasbeen observed (from the second year oflife on to middle age) these are as constantas the normal ones, and never become fullridges or disappear. 5 > -i V Figure 130. The 35 separate forksof the previous figure, isolated from therest, and shown at the same enlargement. forks of this print, drawn by themselves. In the same way Figure 131is a lateral pocket, another variety of a whorl, having no less than 50 forksand 60 ends, which are shown by themselves in the two next figures (Fig-ures 132 and 133). The large system of forks that appears at the head of 324 Personal Identification the loop is a rare peculiarity that has never previously been brought tothe attention of the authors, and forms a striking characteristic of thisparticular finger. A conveni
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