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II. PERSONAL characteristics exist in much more minute particulars than those described in the last article. Leaving aside microscopic peculiarities which are of unknown multitudes, such as might be studied in the 800,000,000 specimens cut by a microtome, say of one two-thousandth part of an inch in thickness, and one tenth of an inch each way in area, out of the 4000 cubic inches or so of the flesh, fat, and bone of a single average human body, there are many that are visible with or without the aid of a lens.
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Personal Identification and Descriptions 1 . Nature 38, 201–202 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/038201a0
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