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breathing, personal identity, these are the subjects of measures innu- 

 merable. Professor Hitchcock, of Amherst College, has published an 

 anthropometric manual giving the average and physical measurements 

 and tests of male college students and methods of securing them, pre- 

 pared from the records of the dei)artment of pliysical education and 

 hygiene in Amherst College in the years 1881-'82 and 188G-'87 inclu- 

 sive. 



Mr. Francis Galton describes an anthropometric laboratory as a place 

 where a person may have any of his various faculties measured in the 

 best possible way at a small cost, and where duplicates of his measure- 

 ments may be preserved as private documents for his own future use 

 and reference. Such an institution would contain apparatus both of 

 the simpler kind used for weighings and measurings and for determina- 

 tions of chest capacity, muscular strength, and swiftness, and that of a 

 more delicate description used in what is technically called psycho- 

 physical research, for determining the efficiency of each of the various 

 senses and certain mental constants. Instruction might be aftbrded to 

 those who wished to make measurements at home, together with infor- 

 mation about instruments and the registration of results. An attached 

 library would contain works relating to the respective influences of he- 

 redity and nurture. These would include statistical, medical, hygienic, 

 and other memoirs in various languages, that are now either scattered 

 through our different scientihc libraries or do not exist in any of them. 

 Duplicates of the measurement but without the names attached would 

 form a growing mass of material accessible to statisticians. 



From conversation with friends Mr. Galton gathers that the library 

 might fulfill a welcome purpose in becoming a receptacle for biogra- 

 l)hies and family records, which would be in two classes, the one to be 

 preserved as private documents accessible only to persons authorized 

 by the depositor, and the other as ordinary books, whether they were 

 in manuscript or in print. (Nature, 18S7, 112.) In addition to Gabon's 

 catalogue of apparatus, Fisher, Venn, Bloxam, and Sargent have pub- 

 lished lists of apparatus, with directions. 



The philosophical instrument makers publish catalogues of anthro- 

 pometric apparatus. These are applied to new sets of phenomena every 

 year. Among the notable publications in this direction are Galton's 

 liaper on the head growth of students at Cambridge; the weight of new- 

 born children, by Farago ; relation of the hand to stature in Asiatics, 

 by Mugnier ; reports on laboratory work, by Bloxam and Garson ; an- 

 thropometric data based on the measurement of three thousand stu- 

 dents, by Tuckerman ; child-growth, by Zelenski, Lansberger, Chaille, 

 Lorey, Tetherston, and Stephenson. 



Coordinated with cranial measurements are cephalic measurements. 

 Ever since Broca's day earnest efforts have been made to perfect this 

 coordination. On the cephalic measurements in France have appeared 

 Colliguon's charts of the rei)artition of the index; C. Arbo has studied 



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