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Daguerre
’s wet plate on tin method. This made
practical the photographing of inmates for prison records.
1856
 
Sir William Herschel
, a British officer working for the Indian
Civil Service, began to use thumbprints on documents both as a
substitute for written signatures for illiterates and to verify doc-
ument signatures.
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1862
The Dutch scientist
 
 J.
(
 
Izaak
) 
 
Van Deen
developed a presumptive
test for blood using guaiac, a West Indian shrub.
1863
The German scientist 
 
Schönbein
first discovered the ability of
hemoglobin to oxidize hydrogen peroxide making it foam. This
resulted in first presumptive test for blood.
1864
 
Odelbrecht
first advocated the use of photography for the iden-
tification of criminals and the documentation of evidence and
crime scenes.
1877
 
Thomas Taylor
,
 
 
microscopist to the U.S. Department of Agricul-
ture suggested that “markings of the palms of the hands and the
tips of the fingers could be used for identification in criminal
cases. Although reported in the 
 
American Journal of Microscopy
and Popular Science
and 
 
Scientific American
, the idea was appar-
ently never pursued from this source.
1879
 
Rudolph Virchow
, a German pathologist, was one of the first to
both study hair and recognize its limitations.
1880
 
Henry Faulds
, a Scottish physician working in Tokyo, published
a paper in the journal 
 
Nature
suggesting that fingerprints at the
scene of a crime could identify the offender. In one of the first
recorded uses of fingerprints to solve a crime, Faulds used finger-
prints to eliminate an innocent suspect and indicate a perpetrator
in a Tokyo burglary.
1882