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Identifier: b20443493 (find matches)
Title: Guide to finger-print identification (electronic resource)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Faulds, Henry, 1843-1930
Subjects: Dermatoglyphics
Publisher: Hanley : Wood, Mitchell
Contributing Library: Wellcome Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellcome Library

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b. c. Fig. I. Skin Ridges and Furrows (enlarged). many places instead ot being arranged in parallel lines (generallysomewhat curved) as in a well ordered farm one may see them turninto a loop or circle, giving a new direction to the neighbouring ridgesand furrows and thus forming patterns of great distinctiveness andsignificance. Even the more regular ridges are seen to split or join,like a railway plan, as in fig. 2. Often those patterns are freak-like, butagain, to preserve the figure of a ploughed field, they often look as ifthe ploughman had encountered some hidden rock or stump of an
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Fig. 2a. Whitened smudge of same finger as in fig. 2, left on japanned tin.The lines are white on a dark ground (enlarged). II ancient tree, and had done his best by going round the obstruction.No such hidden cause has as yet, however, been suggested to explainwhy the ridges of skin should grow so. The traveller in semi-civilisedlands often encounters curious winding paths that no competentengineer would devise. The explanation is that some such spot isunlucky. What determines the course of the rugae is as yet unknown,but the resulting patterns, so full of character and so permanent, canbe utilised apart from the nature of their unknown causation. Incomparing them to ridges in a field it is well to remember thecomparison does not always hold good. The lines are not of uniformwidth. Oftimes they may be likened rather to the mountains andvalleys in a good survey. The ridges sometimes split or send littlespurs down into the neighbouring valleys: at other times a ridgeseems to cleave, giv

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