BERTILLON'S BRAIN.
♦ ITS ABNORMAL WEIGHT. [By Eleotbio Telegbaph—Oopybight] [United Pbess Association.] (Received 8.0 a.m.) Paris, February 16. I A post mortem investigation on M. ißertillon's brain showed that it I weighed 1525 grammes, which is 165 above the average. The late Alphonse Bertillon was a noted anthropologist, and head of the identification department in the Prefecture of Police of the Seine. He invented the system of fingerprint identification now so generally ! adopted throughout th world. He was 61 years of age at the time of his death.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 40, 17 February 1914, Page 5
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87BERTILLON'S BRAIN. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 40, 17 February 1914, Page 5
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