Download or read book The Origin of Finger-Printing written by William James Herschel and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work presents a concise record of the origin of the fingerprint method of personal identification, from its discovery in Bengal in 1858 to its public demonstration there in 1877. The writer William James Herschel is credited with being the first European to notice the value of fingerprints for identification. He advocated that fingerprints were unique and permanent, documenting his own fingerprints over his lifetime to ascertain permanence.