[A] In Professor Giles’s Chinese-English Dictionary (1909) on page 223 some characters are given for “to make a finger-print,” etc.

[B] See Nature (January 17th, 1895), “Finger-Print Method,” Kumagusa Minakata.

[C] Guide to Finger-Print Identification (p.11).

[D] See Guide to Finger-Print Identification (fig. 12)