... the fingerprints solve up to 10 times more unknown suspect cases. Marcello Malpighi was a professor of anatomy at the University of Bologna in 1686. He noted in his treatise about the existence of ridges, loops, and spirals in people's fingerprints. He studied these, but he made no mention of their value as a personal identification tool. A 1.8mm thick piece of skin was later named after him. This was called the Malpighi layer. A thesis discussing 9 fingerprint patterns was published in 1823 by a professor of Anatomy at the university of Breslau,. His name was John Evangelist Purkinji. But, just like Marcello Malpighi, he too didn't mention their use as a tool for personal identification. Fingerprints were first used in July 1858 on native contracts by a Chief Magistrate of the Hooghly district in Jungipoor, India. His name was Sir William Hershel. He and a local business man Rajyadhar Konai used ...

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