Fingerprinting

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that all the prints were unique and could prove identity from all those he made transactions with (Von Minden 2).
Dr. Henry Faulds, the British Surgeon-Superintendent of Tsukihi Hospital in Tokyo, Japan, shared his studies with Charles Darwin in 1880, but Darwin, who was rather ill at the time, could be of no service to Faulds studies. Eight years later, Sir Francis Galton, a British anthropologist and Darwin’s cousin, began to study Faulds’ articles on fingerprint classification. Galton began to concentrate on linking fingerprints to genetic history and intelligence, but had no luck. Scientifically proving that fingerprints never changed during one’s lifetime, Galton stated that the odds of two prints to be exactly the same were 1 in 64 billion (Von Minden 2).
Finally, in 1901, Sir Edward Richard Henry revised Galton’s classification system and started the Henry Classification System which is still used to this day (Von Minden 3).
Throughout the beginning of the 1900’s, fingerprinting began its journey into existence of the U.S. legal system and military branches...