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Henry Classification System
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<p>The Henry Classification System is a long-standing method by which <a href="/facts/Fingerprint/5WLcd20T">fingerprints</a> are sorted by physiological characteristics for one-to-many searching. Developed by <a href="/facts/Hem_Chandra_Bose/H0Ybsrm3">Hem Chandra Bose</a>, <a href="/facts/Qazi_Azizul_Haque/cWlFyJX2">Qazi Azizul Haque</a> and Sir <a href="/facts/Edward_Henry/evTs0vHL">Edward Henry</a> in the late 19th century for criminal investigations in British India, it was the basis of modern-day AFIS (<a href="/facts/Automated_fingerprint_identification/CXXXfuXz">Automated Fingerprint Identification System</a>) classification methods up until the 1990s. In recent years, the Henry Classification System has generally been replaced by ridge flow classification approaches. </p>