Herschel, Sir William James

Date:
1888-1898
Reference:
GALTON/2/9/6/13/32
Part of:
Fingerprint Correspondence
  • Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Description

Letters and postcards from W J Herschel to Galton regarding their mutual interest and work on fingerprints as identification. Herschel's first letter of 2 March 1888 encloses a set of fingerprints.

Publication/Creation

1888-1898

Physical description

35 letters

Terms of use

The papers are available at UCL Special Collections and Archives subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Location of duplicates

A digitised copy is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

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Location of original

The original material is held at UCL Special Collections. This catalogue is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

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