That the Parliament commemorates the 90th anniversary of the death of the Scottish doctor and scientist, Dr Henry Faulds, who was born in 1843 in Beith, North Ayrshire, and died in 1930; acknowledges that Dr Faulds lived and was educated in Beith until the age of 13 when he was forced to leave school and move to Glasgow to work as a clerk to support his family; notes that, at 21, he enrolled at the Facility of Arts at the University of Glasgow and studied mathematics, logic and the classics, then medicine at Anderson's College; understands that Dr Faulds worked in missionary hospitals in both India and Japan; is aware that he established the first English speaking mission in Japan in 1874, with a hospital and teaching facility for Japanese medical students, helping to introduce Joseph Lister's antiseptic methods to Japanese surgeons; appreciates that, in 1875, he helped found the Rakuzenkai, Japan's first society for blind people, and set up lifeguard stations to prevent people drowning in nearby canals; recognises that he halted a rabies epidemic that killed young children who played with infected mice, and helped stop the spread of cholera in Japan, even curing a plague infecting the local fishmonger's stock of carp; acknowledges that, in 1880, he helped found a school for the blind and, by 1882, his Tsukiji Hospital in Tokyo treated 15,000 patients annually; notes that, in addition to his full-time work as a doctor, Dr Faulds wrote two books on travel in the Far East, many academic articles, and started three magazines; considers that it was while on an archaeological dig in Japan that he was struck by the impression of fingerprints still visible on the ancient clay pots and, through further examination of his own fingertips and those of friends, became convinced that fingerprints were unique to every individual; realises that Dr Faulds subsequently used this idea to prove the innocence of a man wrongly arrested by local police for breaking into his hospital; understands that he wrote to Charles Darwin with his ideas and that Darwin forwarded them to a relation, Francis Galton, before Dr Faulds published a paper in the magazine, Nature, on fingerprints, observing that they could be used to catch criminals and suggesting how this could be done; agrees that, today, fingerprints are a fundamental tool for the identification of people with a criminal history in every police agency in the world, and considers that Dr Faulds was a pioneer of the identification of people through their fingerprints and that his work laid the very groundwork for modern criminal forensic science.