ON CEIMINAL ANTHKOPOMETKY AND THE 
IDENTIFICATION OF CEIMINALS. 
By W. R. MACDONELL, M.A., LL.D. 
[Received November 5, 1901.] 
CONTENTS. 
Part I. 
Material and Methods. 
Page 
(1) Objects of the memoir 178 
(2) Nature of material used ib. 
(3) Methods employed 179 
(4) Results from ordinary Correlation Tables 180 
(5) Tests of Normality (i) by lines of regression, (ii) by curves 181 
(6) Tests of Homogeneity 185 
(7) Comparison of criminals with the educated classes of the community . . . 187 
Part II. 
Application of Methods. 
(8) Preliminary example ............. 192 
(9) Method of finding S.D.'s, and Means, and their probable errors .... 194 
(10) Application of methods 196 
(11) Comparison of results ............ 197 
(12) Application of methods, continued 198 
(13) Tables of results 202 
(14) Probable errors of the results ib. 
(15) General results discussed 204 
Part III. 
Identification of Cr^iminals. 
(16) Conditions to be observed in the choice of index characters ..... 205 
(17) General theorem in correlation 206 
(18) Application of the theorem to discover the best order of indexing the selected 
characters 207 
(19) Method of determining uncorrelated index characters 209 
(20) Reconstruction of height from finger, cubit and foot ib. 
(21) Examples of reconstruction 212 
(22) Summary 213 
Tables I— XXXVI^ 214 
Biometrika i 15 
