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-marking' that the various points of measurements were not 

 only determined in an anthropological point of view, but tliat 

 among the 68 different categories, into which these measure- 

 ments are naturally distributed, there occur some which 

 supply many curious points of inquiry, as also considerable 

 assistance not merely to national economics, the result of the 

 light thrown upon the subject of the average of muscular 

 strength of the various races as found by the dynamometer, 

 but also to the graphic art, with respect to a more accurate 

 acquaintance with the human skeleton as well as the entire 

 figure. 



In like manner we never omitted to collect some of the 

 hair of the head from as many as possible of the various 

 individuals measured, since the laborious researches of Peter 

 Brown of Philadelphia on the human hair, have elevated it 

 into a very remarkable means of tracing the origin of the 

 various disparities of race. 



It must also be considered as an especial boon for the 

 science of comparative anatomy, as Avell as universal ethno- 

 graphy, that we succeeded in bringing away with us from the 

 Nicobar Islands the skulls of two of the natives. 



Lastly, a small collection of twenty-three subjects of ethno- 

 graphical inquiry, collected from the various islands, will be 

 found useful, partly as illustrating the information already ob- 



being a systematic plan established and investigated by Dr. Karl Scherzer and Dr. 

 Edward Schwarz, for the purpose of taking measurements on individuals of different 

 races, during the voyage of H. I. M.'s frigate Novara round the world." Vide Proceed- 

 ings of the I. R. Geographical Society of Vienna, vol, II. of 1859, p. 11. 



