CONTENTS
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
Chapter
Page
Introduction
iii
I. The Identification Division of the FBI
1
II. Types of Patterns and Their Interpretation
5
III. Questionable Patterns
71
IV. The Classification Formula and Extensions
87
V. Classification of Scarred Patterns—Amputation—Missing at Birth
98
VI. Filing Sequence
103
VII. Searching and Referencing
109
VIII. How To Take Inked Fingerprints
114
IX. Problems in the Taking of Inked Fingerprints
118
X. Problems and Practices in Fingerprinting the Dead
131
XI. Establishment of a Local Fingerprint Identification Bureau
160
XII. Latent Impressions
173
XIII. Powdering and Lifting Latent Impressions
175
XIV. Chemical Development of Latent Impressions
177
XV. The Use of the Fingerprint Camera
184
XVI. Preparation of Fingerprint Charts for Court Testimony
190
XVII. Unidentified Latent Fingerprint File
194
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