. Personal identification; methods for the identification of individuals, living or dead. ishes five A groups and five B groups, or ten inall, it can be used to divide each of the 81 Bertillon divisions into ten, thusmaking 810 divisions; or, when using 243 Bertillon divisions, the fullcapacity of the system, the divisions will be increased to 2,430. This system, based on practical considerations, and devised withspecial regard to an equality of the divisions, had no chance of surviving,for such was the march of events that the complete adequacy of the finger- 348 Personal Identification print
. Personal identification; methods for the identification of individuals, living or dead. ishes five A groups and five B groups, or ten inall, it can be used to divide each of the 81 Bertillon divisions into ten, thusmaking 810 divisions; or, when using 243 Bertillon divisions, the fullcapacity of the system, the divisions will be increased to 2,430. This system, based on practical considerations, and devised withspecial regard to an equality of the divisions, had no chance of surviving,for such was the march of events that the complete adequacy of the finger- 348 Personal Identification print system alone became so quickly established that no one cared toadopt, or longer to use, a system based primarily upon bodily 1893, the year in which Sir H. H. Asquith appointed his committeeto investigate the finger-print system, appeared the first edition of thedefinite work of Alphonse Bertillon, a manual of the system of identifica-tion by bodily measurements, supplemented by careful details of facialfeatures and bodily marks. This is the system of Bertillonage, as. Figure 145. Alphonse Bertillon (1853-1914). From an early photograph. the French term it, and it is important to note, in order to correct a commonerror, that it has nothing whatever to do with finger prints or with any partof the friction skin. As a matter of fact Bertillon did not believe in thepossibility of the practical use of finger prints, because of the great diffi-culty of finding a means of classifying a large collection of them. Inthis book of 1893, indeed, he says expressly, Unfortunately it is quiteundeniable, notwithstanding the indefatigable researches of Mr. FrancisGalton in England, that these designs do not present in themselves ele-ments of variability sufficiently striking to serve as a basis in a collectionof many hundreds of thousands of cases. * * Malheureusement il est tout aussi indeniable, malgre les recherches ingenieusespoursuivies par M. Francis Galton, en Angleterre,
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