Record

StorageSite	UCL Special Collections
Level	Item
Reference Number	GALTON/2/9/6/13/46
Title	Simpson, H B
Date	Nov-Dec 1893
Description	Letters from H B Simpson of the Home Office, who was secretary to a committee appointed to consider whether anything could be done to improve upon methods of identifying "habitual criminals". The Committee were interested in Galton's fingerprint techniques and arranged to meet with him and to tour the Anthropometric Laboratory. Also makes reference to a visit to Pentonville Prison by Galton and the Committee. Letter of 13 December 1893 encloses notes by Galton on questions posed to him by the Committee.
Extent	7 letters
AccessStatus	Open
AccessConditions	The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

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