Referee'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
Reference number: RR/10/345
Date: 26 November 1890
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No 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]
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- RR/10/345
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- 26 November 1890
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- Letter on paper
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- 4 pages
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Edward Burnet Tylor, Referee'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, 26 November 1890, RR/10/345, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_10_345/referees-report-by-edward-burnett-tylor-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 17 January 2026
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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
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