Finger Prints and Finger Printing. An Historical Study

Cyril John Polson, M.D., F.R.C.P., Barrister-at-Law, is Professor of Forensic Medicine at the University of Leeds, England, and was recently elected a Corresponding Foreign Member of the Societe de M6decine Legale de France. The Department of Legal Medicine, of which he is head, conducts courses for both medical and law students at the University, and material for teaching and research is drawn in particular from the medico-legal autopsies made in behalf of H. M. Coroner of the City of Leeds. This second part of this paper concludes Prof. Polson's excellent discussion of finger printing.-EDITOR.