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Henry Faulds
Scottish doctor, missionary and scientist
Henry Faulds (1 June – 24 March ) was a Scottish doctor, missionary and scientist who is noted for the development of fingerprinting.
Early life
[edit]Faulds was born in Beith, North Ayrshire, into a family of modest means. Aged 13, he was forced to leave school, and went to Glasgow to work as a clerk to help support his family; at 21 he decided to enrol at the Facility of Arts at Glasgow University, where he studied mathematics, logic and the classics. He later studied medicine at Anderson's College, and graduated with a physician's licence.
Following graduation, Faulds then became a medical missionary for the Church of Scotland. In , he was sent to British India, where he worked for two years in Darjeeling at a hospital for the poor.
On 23 July , he received a letter of appointment from the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland to establish a medical mission in Japan. He married Isabella Wilson that September
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The Fingerprint System
Increased experience with anthropometric identification quickly revealed to New York's Bertillon Indexers what other users of the system had already discovered: Bertillon's method of identification contained significant room for improvement.
Although basic categories were plenty for an agency handling 5, to 10, records, when the 50, mark was reached and passed, New York's Bertillon Indexers funnen themselves searching through categories containing or more kort. The time required to check for duplicate records increased from a few minutes to several hours.
Another bekymmer was the inaccuracy of the measurements themselves. This was due to the inexperience or incompetence of the examiners, as well as the criminals' refusal to wait until they attained full adulthood, and thus their most stable measurements, before they began committing crimes.
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Henry Faulds ()
Faulds was a Scottish doctor and missionary and a pioneer of the identification of people through their fingerprints.
Henry Faulds was born on 1 June in Beith, North Ayrshire. He went to work in Glasgow as a clerk, and then decided to study medicine. He became a missionary and in he was sent to Japan where he founded and then became the surgeon superintendent of Tuskiji Hospital in Tokyo. He became fluent in Japanese, taught at the local university and was also responsible for founding the Tokyo Institute for the Blind.
In the late s, Faulds became involved in archaeological digs in Japan and noticed on shards of ancient pottery the fingerprints of those who had made them. He began to study modern fingerprints and wrote to Charles Darwin with his ideas. Darwin forwarded them to a relation, Francis Galton. In , Faulds published a paper in 'Nature' magazine on fingerprints, observing that they could be used to catch criminals and suggesting how this could be done.