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RefNoRR/10/345
LevelItem
TitleReferee's report by Edward Burnett Tylor, on a paper 'The patterns in thumb and finger Marks.—On their arrangement into naturally distinct classes, the permance of the papillary ridges that makes them, and the resemblance of their classes to ordinary genera' by Francis Galton
Date26 November 1890
DescriptionNo clear statement regarding publication in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Suggests the author reconsider some of the concluding remarks.

Subject: Physiology

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1891]
Extent4p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionLetter on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstb.1891.0001 Vol.82 1891
RelatedRecordRR/10/344
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA2273Tylor; Sir; Edward Burnet (1832 - 1917)1832 - 1917
NA7708Galton; Sir; Francis (1822 - 1911); statistician, human geneticist and eugenicist1822 - 1911
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