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Census reports, tables of vital statistics, blue books, literature of the 

 Bureau of Labor, of interstate commerce, of education, Johns Hopkins 

 tracts on historical and political science; the great reviews, all of 

 them ; the daily press are only a few of the great organs of sociology. 

 The existence of a national society with an official organ will enable 

 the specialists to cull from this great mass the publications in his line 

 of study. 



Anthropology comes to the aid of justice in the success of the Bertil- 

 lon method of measuring and identifying criminals. This has found 

 favor not only in all France, but in the United States, and even in the 

 Argentine Republic. To the ordinary police questions of sex, height, 

 age, and color of the eye are added the cephalic diameters, the length 

 of the foot, length of the middle finger, length of the ear, length of the 

 forearm, and personal scars or individual peculiarities. The many 

 beneficial effects of the certain identification of a criminal, in spite of 

 all aliases and disguises that have already been published, the ability 

 to separate the first offense from the professional villainy, are not the 

 least among the obligations society owes to anthropology. 



The discussion still continues upon the subject whether there are 

 certain morphological indications of criminal proclivities so marked 

 that society may use them to protect itself by confining the subject be- 

 fore the crime may be committed. 



The wide range of inquiry in the province of sociology is indicated 

 in the following titles : Anthropology of Prostitutes, Tamousky ; Ar- 

 tificial Deformation of the Head, Delisle, Nicolucci ; Child Marriage in 

 India, Brahmin; Chronology of China, Gordon; Communism, Lav- 

 eleye ; Comparative Criminality, Tarde ; Courtesy, Mallery ; Crime and 

 Suicide, Corre; Criminal Anthropology, Gamier, Galton, Garofalo, 

 Germa, Lombroso, Paravaut, Ellis, Proal; Disposal of the Dead, Tay- 

 lor ; Duk-Duk Ceremonies, Churchill ; The Ear as a Sign of Defective 

 Development, Warner; Ethical Problem, Cams; Evolution and Inher- 

 itance, Eimer ; Gentile System of the Navajos, Matthews ; Government, 

 Huxley; Infancy of Criminals, Taverni ; Infant Marriages in India, 

 Fawcett; Japanese Women, Loti; Judicial Dictionary, Stroud; Judicial 

 Torture, Gundry ; Justice and Political Ethics, Spencer; La Couvade, 

 Meyuers; Masks, Boas, Meyer; Marriage and Heredity, Nisbet; Mar- 

 riage Relation, Wake; Mutual Aid Among Animals, Krapotkin ; North 

 American Indian Children, Pajeken ; Origins of Common Law, Pollock; 

 Police Anthropometry, Spearman; Political Evolution, Letourneau; Pol- 

 yandria, Raynaud; Primitive Fashions, Basu; Primitive Games, Thurn; 

 Province of Sociology, Giddings ; Racing in 1890, Stutfield ; Society 

 Among Animals, Girod; Student Life in Paris in the Twelfth Century, 

 Francke; Survival of Ancient Custom, Gomme ; Tattooing in Tunis, 

 Bazin (also sub voce); Thief Talk, Wdde; Trephined Crania, Verneau; 

 Young Parisian Criminals, Jolly, Roux. 



