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The article presents information on various abstracts related to crime. According to an abstract, the anatomical studies made upon the bodies of the two victims in the "Ruxton case," tried in Scotland in 1936, and particularly the identifications made as a result of the examination of the skulls, have stimulated interest in methods of personal identification which might be utilized in instances wherein dismemberment, disintegration, or some other cause has rendered the application of the fingerprint method impossible. A method of considerable potential value involving the use of roentgenograms of the nasal and accessory sinuses and mastoid processes was proposed several years ago by physician Frederick M. Law of New York following his successful identification of a badly disfigured body by this means. Although the case reported by him seems to be the only one of its kind on record, it is considered of sufficient interest to be recounted here.