Project of an instrument for the identification of persons : for use in military establishments, police offices, &c. and for physiological and artistic research / by Joseph Bonomi.

  • Joseph Bonomi the Younger
Date:
1872
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Project of an instrument for the identification of persons : for use in military establishments, police offices, &c. and for physiological and artistic research / by Joseph Bonomi. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    contain the letter l, or the letter s, or the letter e, to signify that the person whose measures have been re- corded is either long-armed or short-armed, or equal- armed—that is to say, the extent of whose arms is equal to the height. Then should follow a consider- able space for observations, such as the colour of the eyes, and which arm, if either, were the longer, and whether the space from the top of the head to the pit of the neck was longer or shorter than the normal proportion. There should also be a space in which to record the occupation or trade of the person mea- sured, for this will be found to affect considerably the laws of growth and normal proportions of the human frame. It will be abundantly evident, by reference to the diagram,that for police purposes the strips of deal bear- ing: the scale need not extend below 4 feet 6 inches from the floor, nor extend upwards above 6 feet 6 inches, because all adult persons less than 4 feet 6 inches or above 6 feet 6 inches are sufficiently identified by the circumstance of their extraordinary growth. This is signified by the inner square ghci, down to which the scale from the horizontal J k, and that from the vertical l m, extend. (See Dia- gram II.) For artistic purposes and physiological inquiry however, the laths should extend to within a foot from the ground to the height of G ieet 6 inches, because, with such a scale, the horizontal which crosses the figure below the patella and the other two horizontal lines could be measured even in young persons, by which if would be discovered whether the
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