BERTILLON, LOUIS ADOLPHE ), French statistician, was born in Paris. A doctor by profession, he was one of the founders of the school of anthropology of Paris and was appointed professor of demography there in 1876; he also held the post of director of the statistical office of Paris. His principal work is Denrographie figuree de la France (1874)• His son JACQUES BERTILLON (1851-1922), French statistician, was principal of the office of statistics, and in 1885 the director of the "Annales de Demographie." He wrote La Statistique humaine en France (1880).