Appleton's annual cyclopedia and register of important events: embracing political, military, an ecclesiastical affairs; public documents; biography, statistics, commerce, finance, literature, science, agriculture, and mechanical industry . -viding the interval between them. C is morelike B than A was, and in like manner a lineD can be drawn, still more like B. By con-tinuing thus, a figure will be reached which, ifdrawn separately, is indistinguishable from this is the fourth equal subdivision, there aresixteen grades of least discernible differencesbetween A and B. This measure of resem
Appleton's annual cyclopedia and register of important events: embracing political, military, an ecclesiastical affairs; public documents; biography, statistics, commerce, finance, literature, science, agriculture, and mechanical industry . -viding the interval between them. C is morelike B than A was, and in like manner a lineD can be drawn, still more like B. By con-tinuing thus, a figure will be reached which, ifdrawn separately, is indistinguishable from this is the fourth equal subdivision, there aresixteen grades of least discernible differencesbetween A and B. This measure of resem-blance is evidently applicable also to colors,sounds, tastes, and other sense indications, andmay be used in personal description by firstmaking a collection of standard profiles drawnwith double lines, so that any human profilewould lie entirely within some one of would be quite possible; indeed, all humanprofile lines, taken from the brow to the lips,fall between the lines shown in Fig. 2. The 422 IDENTIFICATION AND DESCRIPTION, PERSONAL. measurement of profiles seems to be the bestmeans of personal identification. Prof. G-altonprefers for reference-lines B C (Fig. 3), touch-ing the concavity above the nose and the con-. FlG. 1. vexity of the chin, and a line parallel to this,touching the tip of the nose. From these linesvarious measures may be taken which are char-acteristic of the individual. Instead of theseprofile measurements, measures of the headand limbs are generally employed in prisonsfor purposes of identification, this idea originat-ing in France with Alphonse Bertillon. But,whatever the system, the practicaldifficulty is to classify the sets ofmeasures that are so made, so thatit may be told at a glance whetherany given set of measurementsagrees with any or none of themwithin specified limits, and for thispurpose Prof. Galton has devisedwhat he calls a mechanical consists of a large number of strips of cardor metal, Ci, Ca (Fig. 4), eight or
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