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in body than scores whom I have seen in certain localities south of 

 the Seine. The fact is, no human body exists which is not in some 



Group 2, No. 1 (forger). 



Groujj 2, jNo. 2. 



respects abnormal. The number of abnormalities and their extent 

 depend upon a variety of circumstances, among which are food, cli- 

 mate, occupation, and the inci- 

 dents of birth itself, as well as 

 the various forms of infantile dis- 

 ease. I will undertake to find 

 enough physical peculiarities, in 

 any locality, or among the mem- 

 bers of any profession, to estab- 

 lish any physical theory which 

 may be propounded. 



It occurred to me to try an 

 experiment in a manner entirely 

 different from the usual criminal 

 researches. Having been very 

 familiar with a certain prison for 

 many years, I requested the war- 

 den, who is a very able man in his 

 profession, to send me the pho- 

 tographs of ten or a dozen men 

 whom he regarded as the most 

 representative criminals in his population of some- five hundred per- 

 sons. The warden was not informed of the use I intended to make 



Group 2, No. 3. 



