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StorageSiteUCL Special Collections
LevelItem
Reference Number GALTON/3/3/2/12
TitleBertillon, Alphonse
Date1888-1896
DescriptionManuscript letters. Encloses a calling card of 'Chef de Service d'Identification' at the Palais de Justice.

Particular items:
Letter dated 18 January 1889: Bertillon is glad that Galton found his documents on anthropometry useful.
Letter dated 15 June 1891 mentions Bertillon's book Signes Caractristiques des Professions Manuelles. See GALTON/2/9/7 for the book itself.
Letter dated 3 July 1896: Bertillon is interested in an article on fingerprinting and goes on to discuss it further.
Extent5 letters and 1 enclosure
AdminHistoryBertillon, Alphonse (1853-1914) chief of criminal identification for the Paris police (from 1880) who developed an identification system known as anthropometry, or the Bertillon system, that came into wide use in France and other countries. (Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica)
CustodialHistoryLetter dated 15 June 1891 was returned to UCL Special Collections by UCL Museums & Collections in March 2013, where it had been on display.
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.
Related MaterialSee also GALTON/2/9/6/13/6 for another letter from Bertillon
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