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Bertillon

noun
1.
French criminologist (1853-1914).  Synonym: Alphonse Bertillon.



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"Bertillon" Quotes from Famous Books



... ever smelled the chloride-of-lime-and-circus-cage smell of the inside of a state's prison; no Bertillon sharp had on file his measurements and thumb prints, nor did any central office or detective bureau contain his rogues-gallery photograph. Times almost past counting he had been taken up on suspicion; more than once had been arrested on direct charges, and at least twice ...
— Sundry Accounts • Irvin S. Cobb

... Bertillon rightly insisted, be of the most complete description—setting forth all the anthropological traits of the contracting parties—so that the characteristics of a human group at any time and place may be studied and compared. Registration of this kind would, beside its more obvious ...
— The Task of Social Hygiene • Havelock Ellis



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