Dactylography; Or, The Study of Finger-prints

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Dactylography Or, THE STUDY OF FINGER-PRINTS

Dactylography, frontispiece
HENRY FAULDS
L.R.F.P. & S. M.R. Archæol. Inst. F.R. Anthrop. Inst., M. Sociol. Soc.