Personal Identification and Description 197 



Nath Banerji, who had impressed his fingers in 1892 afresh, was the same 

 man who had impressed them on Deed No. 28 in 1878 ! 



We reproduce Galton's: 



Plate II, Plate III left-hand side, Plate IV left-hand side (see our 

 Plate XIX); 



Plate VI and Plate VIII (see our Plate XX) ; 



Plate X and Plate XII (see our Plate XXI); 



Plate XIV and Plate XVI (see our Plate XXII). 

 These plates form the best — a graphical — illustration of Galton's methods. 



On pp. 1 7 -1 8, we have some useful suggestions as to enlargingfinger-prints, 

 but such work is now much more generally understood and accurately done 

 than in 1892. Galton's two enlarging cameras are in the possession of the 

 Gal ton Laboratory (see our p. 215). Our Author concludes with the following 

 remarks : 



" Photographic enlargements save a great deal of petty trouble. It is far easier to deal 

 exhaustively with them than it is with actual impressions viewed under a magnifying glass. 

 In the latter case, a few marked correspondences, or the reverse, can readily be picked out, 

 and perhaps noted by the prick of a fine needle, the point of a pin being much too coarse. It 

 is thus easy to make out whether a suspicious print deserves the trouble of photographic 

 enlargement, but without previous enlargement a thorough comparison between two prints is 

 difficult even to an expert, and no average juryman could be expected to make it." (p. 18.) 



The Second Attempt at Indexing Finger- Prints. Galton provided another 

 Finger-Print Index to 100 persons in July 1894. It is entitled "Physical 

 Index to 100 persons on their measures and finger-prints (set up in two parts 

 as an experiment)? Here the two parts consist: first, of an index based 

 primarily on five measurements as in bertillonage, and secondarily on finger- 

 prints; and again of an index based primarily on finger-prints, and secondarily 

 on the five measurements. I cannot find that this index was ever published 

 although it appears to have been printed, stereotyped and circulated among 

 Galton's friends and correspondents. It possesses in arrangement greater 

 brevity than that of the Finger Print Directories of the following year, and 

 yet gives more information since the anthropometric measurements and certain 

 other data are included. The whole space occupied by any entry is 36 x 17 mm., 

 and Galton considers that, if the entries were cut up and pasted on to cards, 



"a cabinet of 27 broad and shallow drawers measuring, over all, less than 12 inches in 

 height and 4| feet in width, would contain more than 100,000 of these small cards arranged 

 as a catalogue." 



Each entry or label consists of four lines (see table on p. 198). In the 

 first line on the left is the anthropometric formula, on the right the finger- 

 print formula. These are the bases on which the indices of Part I and Part II 

 respectively are formed, the entries being made in order of letters and numbers 

 in the formulae taken in consecutive order. 



The second line gives the five anthropometric measurements in the order 

 from left to right of (i) head length, (ii) head breadth, (iii) extreme breadth 

 between cheek bones, (iv) length of left cubit, (v) length of left middle finger. 

 To obtain the anthropometric formula, these are divided into a, I, w, which 

 signify short, medium, long. The medium limits are for (i) 191 to 196, 



