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IT appears from the Pall Mall Gazette of October 21 that there is a prospect of “a campaign being run in the country” on behalf of the “Claimant” by “six of the best orators whom money can collect, … supplied with a hundred idcntiscopes.” These are optical instruments, containing on the one side a drawing made from a portrait of the undoubted Roger Tichborne, and on the other side a drawing made from an equally undoubted portrait of the Claimant taken nineteen years later, and the arrangement is such that on looking into the instrument the drawing; combine into one. This, it is maintained, leaves no doubt that the two portraits are those of one and the same individual.
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GALTON, F. The “Identiscope” . Nature 30, 637–638 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/030637a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/030637a0