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StorageSiteUCL Special Collections
LevelItem
Reference Number GALTON/2/9/6/13/52
TitleVucetich, Juan
Date11 Dec 1896
Date215 Aug 1909
Date3c1931
DescriptionLetter dated 11 December 1896 from Juan Vucetich, Chief and founder of the Office of Statistics and Anthropometric Identification of the Province of Buenos Aires, to Galton regarding the use of fingerprints in the identification of criminals. This letter is in French.
Letter from Vucetich to Galton dated 15 August 1909 requesting copies of some of Galton's fingerprint data for use in a scientific conference. This letter is in English.
Business card of Cesar E Etcheverry, Police Delegate from the Argentine Government. Annotated in an unknown hand with details of an appointment and Juan Vucetich's name, and "called at end of 1931".
Extent2 letters plus 1 business card
AccessStatusOpen
AccessConditionsThe 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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