Referee's report by John Evans, 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
Reference number: RR/10/344
Date: 14 November 1890

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Recommended for publication in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. The subject is apparently trivial, but raises many questions for further investigation.
Subject: Physiology
[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1891]
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- RR/10/344
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- 14 November 1890
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John Evans, Referee's report by John Evans, 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, 14 November 1890, RR/10/344, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_10_344/referees-report-by-john-evans-on-a-paper-the-patterns-in-thumb-and-finger-markson-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, accessed on 22 March 2025
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