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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
Earliest possible date
26 November 1890
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Letter on paper
Page extent
4 pages
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Manuscript

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Edward Burnet Tylor

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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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