ANTHROPOMETRY 25 



THE INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT FOR THE UNIFI- 

 CATION OF ANTHROPOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS 

 TO BE MADE ON THE LIVING SUBJECT 



Report op the Commission Appointed by the XIVth International Congress 



OF Prehistoric Anthropology and Archaeology at Geneva 



(1912), to Supplement the Work Commenced by the 



XIIIth Congress in the Session at Monaco 



(1906) 



ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE OFFICIAL VERSION' 



W. L. H. DUCKWORTH, M.D., Sc.D. 



(One of the three recorders appointed by the Commission) 



Contents 



PAGE 



Section I. Introduction 61 



Section II. General principles 62 



Section III. Detailed definitions of the measurements approved by the Com- 

 mission and the Congress 63 



Section IV. Additional resolutions passed by the Commission and the Con- 

 gress 67 



The International Agreement for the Unification of Anthropometric 

 Measurements to be Made on the Living Subject 



I. introduction 



During the International Congress of Prehistoric Anthropology and 

 Archeo'ogy, held at Geneva from the 9th to the 12th September, 1912, 

 an International Commission was appointed in order to determine the 

 unification of anthropological measurements to be made on the living 

 subject. The meetings had thus as their object, that of supplementing 

 the work accomplished during the Congress held at Monaco in 1906, 

 when the unification of craniometric and cephalometric measurements 

 was achieved.^ 



The Commission which met at Geneva included the following mem- 

 bers of the Congress : 



' The Anthropplogical Laboratory of the University, New Museums, Cambridge. 

 Oct. 30, 1912. 



^ International Congress of Prehistoric Anthropology and Archaeology, Session 

 XIII, Monaco, 1906, Tome ii, pp. 377-394. 



