Bertillon
ALPHONSE (ber-têyôn'), a French anthropologist, born in Paris in 1853; is widely noted as the 1 BERTILLON SYSTEM founder of a system of identification of criminals. In 1880, while Chief of the Bureau of Identification in the Prefecture of Police, he established his system of measurements which has given results ALPHONSE BERTILLON marvelous for their precision. The system has since been adopted by the police authorities of the large cities of Europe and the United States. He was author of numerous works bearing upon his system, including "Identification anthropometrique" (1893).