| 释义 |
‖ bertillonage|bɛrtijɔˈnaʒ|
[Fr., f. the name of the inventor (see below).]
The system of identification of criminals by anthropometric measurements, finger-prints, etc., invented by Alphonse Bertillon (1853-1914), French criminologist.
1892F. Galton Finger Prints 156, 562 prisoners who gave false names in the year 1890 were recognised by Bertillonage. 1892Athenæum 24 Dec. 893/3 An interesting part of the work is the criticism of Bertillonage. 1901E. R. Henry Finger Prints (ed. 2) 63 The system suggested by Mr. Galton..failed to deal as effectively as Bertillonage with primary classification. 1920Discovery Apr. 124/1 Extended examples are given of the possibilities of variation curves, variation ‘steps’, and ‘gradation curves’; the combination of such data, constituting a quantitative diagnosis of a species, is defined as ‘Bertillonage’. |