Record

StorageSite	UCL Special Collections
Level	Item
Reference Number	GALTON/2/9/6/13/50
Title	Mason, Otto
Date	Mar-Aug 1888
Description	Letter from Otto Mason of the Smithsonian Institution to Galton regarding thumb marks as a measure against fraud. Encloses a letter from Gilbert Thompson to Mason explaining how he used his thumb prints to prevent promissory notes being altered. Also a letter from Thompson to Galton on the same subject, with examples.
Extent	3 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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