CHAPTER X

PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION 147

Printers and photographers 147

Use of means of identification to honest persons; in regard to criminals 148-149

Major Ferris, Mr. Tabor, N. Borneo 149-153

Best digits for registration purposes 153

Registration of criminals--M. Bertillon 154

Details of _Bertillonage_; success attributed to it; a theoretic error 155-158

Verification on a small scale 158-162

Experiences in the United States 163

Body marks; teeth 165-166

Value of finger prints for search in a register 166

Identification by comparison 167

Remarks by M. Herbette 168