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StorageSite	UCL Special Collections
Level	Item
Reference Number	PEARSON/8/24/3
Title	Fingerprints Taken by William Herschel in India, 1859-1877
Date	c1914
Description	Four large plates showing fingerprint samples collected by William Herschel in India in 1859-1862, and 1877. Some of the prints were republished by Francis Galton in "Blurred Fingerprints". An annotation shows that they were reproduced for Karl Pearson in 1914.
Extent	4 folios
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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