ALPHONSE BERTILLON (1853—i 914), brother of Jacques, French anthropologist, invented the system of identification of criminals, known as Bertillonage, by means of anthropometry (q.v.), which he described in his Pliotographie judiciaire (1890). He was officially appointed in 1894 to report on the handwriting of the bordereau in the Dreyfus case, and was a witness for the prosecu tion before the cour de cassation on Jan. 18, 1899.