. Personal identification; methods for the identification of individuals, living or dead. ARTle^V6RJTATl1 BOSTON RICHARD G. BADGER THE GORHAM PRESS Copyright, 1918, by Richard G. Badgei All Rights Reserved / lo ^1 L^^ ^^ APR221919 *, >4[BRASi. Made in the United States of America The Gorham Press, Boston, U. S. A. TO SIR EDWARD RICHARD HENRY OF SCOTLAND YARD, WHOSE PRACTICAL SUC-CESS IN THE INTRODUCTION OF THE SYS-TEM OF FINGER-PRINT IDENTIFICATION,AS THE FIRST ABSOLUTELY POSITIVEMETHOD OF IDENTIFYING THEINDIVIDUAL, DESERVESTHE GRATITUDE• OF MANKIND •. Sib Edward Richard Henry, C. S.
. Personal identification; methods for the identification of individuals, living or dead. ARTle^V6RJTATl1 BOSTON RICHARD G. BADGER THE GORHAM PRESS Copyright, 1918, by Richard G. Badgei All Rights Reserved / lo ^1 L^^ ^^ APR221919 *, >4[BRASi. Made in the United States of America The Gorham Press, Boston, U. S. A. TO SIR EDWARD RICHARD HENRY OF SCOTLAND YARD, WHOSE PRACTICAL SUC-CESS IN THE INTRODUCTION OF THE SYS-TEM OF FINGER-PRINT IDENTIFICATION,AS THE FIRST ABSOLUTELY POSITIVEMETHOD OF IDENTIFYING THEINDIVIDUAL, DESERVESTHE GRATITUDE• OF MANKIND •. Sib Edward Richard Henry, C. S. Commissioner, New Scotland Yard, London, S. W., England PEEFACE THIS book is primarily intended to place before the general publica very live problem, and consider all the ways by which, up to thepresent time, a solution has been sought. The problem is that of the Personal Identification of human indi-viduals; the means by which a person, or a dead body, may be definitelyrecognized, even in cases where the person purposely attempts to mislead,or where a dead body is mutilated beyond ordinary means of is plain that such an identification must rest upon certain individualbodily characters; and as such matters are scientifically dealt with bythe physical anthropologists, it is to the specialists in this branch ofscience that we naturally turn for aid. Up to the present the main use of such scientific methods of bodilyidentification has been confined to the identification of the criminal classes,whose practices render them notably elusi
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