The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bertillon system \Ber`til`lon" sys"tem\ [After Alphonse Bertillon, French anthropologist.] A system for the identification of persons by a physical description based upon anthropometric measurements, notes of markings, deformities, color, impression of thumb lines, etc.
Usage examples of "bertillon system".
I had heard, however, that the Bertillon system of measurements often depended on the personal equation of the measurer as well as on the measured.
Now, as I was about to say, the Bertillon system offers no physical ev.
The veriest amateur of an English Mees knows itthanks to the publicity the Bertillon system has been given in the Press.
His conversation, I remember, was about the Bertillon system of measurements, and he expressed his enthusiastic admiration of the French savant.