CHAPTER VI

PERSISTENCE 89

Evidence available 89

About thirty-five points of reference in each print 90

Photo-enlargement; orientation; tracing axes of ridges 90-91

Ambiguities in minutiae 91

V. H. Hd. as child and boy, a solitary change in one of the minutiae 92

Eight couplets from other persons 93

One from Sir W. G. 95

Summary of 389 comparisons 96

Ball of a thumb 96

Results as to persistence 97