. Personal identification; methods for the identification of individuals, living or dead. igns 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, que ces dessins ne presentent paspar eux-memes des elements de variabilite assez tranches pour servir de base a un reper-toire de plusieurs centaines de mille cas. History of the Subject of Identification 349 Nothing can
. Personal identification; methods for the identification of individuals, living or dead. igns 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, que ces dessins ne presentent paspar eux-memes des elements de variabilite assez tranches pour servir de base a un reper-toire de plusieurs centaines de mille cas. History of the Subject of Identification 349 Nothing can better show the greatness and broadmindedness of Ber-tillon than the fact that within two years after writing the above he hadadded to his descriptive cards a blank for finger prints, having becomeconvinced of the efficacy of the system. Indeed it was his very advocacyof this new system, the invention of a foreigner, that rendered the idea cur-rent in the United States that Bertillon was himself the inventor, and hasmade the present explanation necessary. To show Bertillon s early and. Figure 146 Alphonse Bertillon (1853-1914). Alate photograph, shortly before his death. complete adoption of the Galton system, we give here one side of one of hisown descriptive cards, bearing the finger prints of the right hand, and thedate of August 27, 1895. Upon the reverse are found the name and otherparticulars, a list of marks and scars, and the finger prints of the left from the rapid adoption of the finger-print system for practicalpurposes, following the favorable report of the English committee, fingerprints began to appear in fiction, and in 1894, with his accustomed en-terprise, Mark Twain appeared before a larger public with his Pudden- 350 Personal Identification head Wilson. Had this genial character of fiction been real, he wouldeasily have been the inventor of the system, and even as it is, there arestill some minds in whom lurks the suspicion that in some way Mark Tw
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