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EXPERIMENTS of various kinds that I have made to define the facial peculiarities of persons, familles, and races by means of measurement led to the following results that seem worthy of publication. The most elementary form of portrait will alone be considered here, namely, the outline of the face from brow to chin, as in a shadow or in a silhouette. It contains no sharply defined points whence measurements may be taken, but artificial ones can be determined with fair precision at the intersections of tangents to specified curves. It will be shown that it is easy to “lexiconise” portraits by arranging the measurements between a few pairs of these points in numerical order, on the same principle that words are lexiconised in dictionaries in alphabetical order, and to define facial peculiarities with greater exactness than might have been expected.
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GALTON, F. Classification of Portraits . Nature 76, 617–618 (1907). https://doi.org/10.1038/076617b0
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