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‘With the Chinese government’s adoption of his dactyloscopy system, Mr Juan Vucetich has achieved yet another victory. Yesterday our Interior Minister received a telegram from Peking informing him that China had officially inaugurated its fingerprinting service with the assistance of the Chinese Minister of Justice.’1 This news reached Argentina in April 1913 from one of the farthest corners of the earth, both geographically and culturally speaking. Few were the ties that linked the two republics, and this telegram confirmed the global dissemination of the fingerprint classification system developed in a small office of the Buenos Aires Province Police.
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Ferrari, M.G. (2013). Dissemination of the Argentine Dactyloscopy System in the Early Twentieth Century: Local, Regional and International Dimensions. In: About, I., Brown, J., Lonergan, G. (eds) Identification and Registration Practices in Transnational Perspective. St Antony’s Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137367310_4
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