| Description | Sets of fingerprints from groups intended to represent different "races" including European people, Jewish people, black people, English children and Welsh children, as well as people with learning difficulties. Includes original fingerprints and enlarged prints. Also includes some notes, correspondence and handprints. See GALTON/2/9/6/3/4/2 for correspondence and other material analysing these sets.
Users of this collection should note that the original descriptive terms used by Galton have been given here in quotation marks "". Please be aware that Galton used terms to describe groups of people which were acceptable to his contemporaries but are considered offensive today. UCL does not condone the use of such terms, but where such terminology appears in the material we have retained it in the catalogue description. |