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pological enquiry, the followiug programme of proceedings was 

 proposed. 



1. To compare and decide upon the best method and apparatus 



to be employed in the graphic and plastic representation of the 

 whole body. 



2. To inquire into the best method to be followed in the measur- 



ing and description of the entire body, and of individual 

 parts. 



3. To promote the mutual communication of catalogues of the 

 materials for Comparative Anthropology, collected at various 

 places. 



4. To consult about the establishment of a Journal to serve as a 

 medium for the publication of communications relating to 

 Anthropology, and of making known any additions to Anthro- 

 pological science that might appear elsewhere. 



5. To receive divers communications. 



G. To consult as to the future development of the Association, as 

 it was desirable, in the first place, that the experience which 

 might be gained in the use of the methods recommended, 

 should after a time be mutually communicated by its mem- 

 bers to each other ; and secondly, because it might be advisable 

 that the Association should be enlarged, and its objects made 

 more comprehensive. 

 7. To entertain propositions of any kind. 



The first subject submitted to the meeting was Dr. Lucge's me- 

 thod of making geometrical drawings of the cranium, which appears 

 to have been highly approved of, if not adopted by the meeting. As 

 this method is fully described in Dr. Lucse's memoir, cited at the 

 head of this article, we will not here enter upon it further than to 

 make some remarks upon its merits in comparison with other modes 

 of delineation, on which a few words wdl afterwards be given. 



Subsequently the subject of Craniometry was taken up, when the 

 Chairman explained the system he had adopted and described in his 

 " Crania selecta." Into the nature of this system, which will doubt- 

 less form the basis of the much desired uniform plan yet to be agreed 

 upon, we shall enter pretty fully, after making a few observations 

 on Craniometry in general. 



The space at our command will prevent our attempting to give 

 any historical review of the various plans and systems of measure- 

 ment adopted by Craniologists from the time of SpigeHus to the pre- 

 sent day. And this in fact is the less required, since such a review, 

 very ably and fully drawn up by Dr. Meigs, will be found in his 

 essay, above cited, and which, it may be mentioned, first appeared in 

 the North American Medieo-Chirurgical Eeview, for September, 

 1861. 



The main object of Craniometry is to ascertain and express in 

 numerals so many of the various dimensions of the skull as may 

 suffice to show its proportions as a whole, and the relative propor- 



