Advances in Fingerprint Technology.pdf

Figure 1.9 Trademarks of Thomas Bewick. (From the publications of Thomas
Bewick. With permission.)
surprise, a 35-mm film arrived with negatives of all the pertinent pages in
Latin (Martin has entrusted the film to me to retain in my capacity as
Historian of The Fingerprint Society). Professor Harold Cummins and
Rebecca Wright Kennedy, of the U.S., translated the thesis in 1940, and The
Royal Society of London obtained the translation and duly gave permission
for it to be published in Fingerprint Whorld, April 1987.
These are some of the interesting observations Purkinje made regarding
the four basic patterns (Figure 1.2) and also a most detailed description of a
palm impression:
Arch: From the articular fold, rugae and sulci first course in almost straight
lines transversely from one side of the phalanx to the other; then little
by little they become more curved in the middle, until they are bent in
arches which are nearly parallel with the periphery of the phalanx.
Tent: This is almost the same conformation as the above, the only difference
being that the transversely coursing ridges are wrapped over
a little perpendicular stria, as if it were a nucleus.