Personal identification; methods for the identification of individuals, living or dead

by Harris Hawthorne Wilder

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384 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2010

About the author

Harris Hawthorne Wilder was an American zoologist and anatomist. He was professor of zoology at Smith College in Massachusetts, where for 36 years until his death. He was the first American to study dermatoglyphics, the study of skin ridges and fingerprints, and this along with his studies of facial reconstruction placed him among the pioneers of fingerprint analysis and forensic sciences.