ANTHKOPOMETRY 11 



Anthropology and Archeology had included among the questions a 

 consideration of which by the members of the Congress was regarded 

 as of the greatest importance, the subject of unification of anthropo- 

 logical measurements. 



At the opening session of the Congress, which took place at Monaco 

 on the 16th day of April, 1906, Professor Hamy, as President, called 

 attention to the urgent need of an international agreement on anthro- 

 pometric technique. But he also called attention to the almost in- 

 surmountable difficulties which would be met with if the numerous 

 measurements which had been employed to date were to be examined 

 in the open session of the Congress, and to the consequent necessity, 

 if satisfactory results were to be obtained, of appointing a Commission 

 which would specially occupy itself with the subject during the time 

 of the session and at the last meeting of the Congress present some 

 project of unification for approval by the Congress. 



This proposition was adopted, and the commission was named imme- 

 diately, comprising the following : 



Giufrida-Ruggeri, Secretary of the Anthropological Society and As- 

 sistant to the Chair of Anthropology, Rome ; 



Hamy, Professor of Anthropology at the Museum of Natural His- 

 tory, and member of the Institute, Paris ; 



Herve, Professor of Ethnology at the Ecole d'Anthropologie, and 

 former President of the Anthropological Society, Paris; 



Lissauer, President of the Anthropological Society, Berlin ; 



von Luschan, Professor of Anthropology, University of Berlin ; 



Papillault, Assistant Director in the Laboratory of Anthropology of 

 the Ecole des Hautes Etudes, and Professor at the Ecole d'Anthro- 

 pologie, Paris; 



Pittard, Private Docent at the University of Geneva; 



Pozzi, one of the Professors of the Faculty of Medicine and former 

 president of the Anthropological Society, Paris; 



Sergi, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Anthropolog- 

 ical Institute, Rome; 



Verneau, Assistant to the Chair of Anthropology, at the Museum of 

 Natural History and Temporary Professor at the ficole d'Anthropol- 

 ogie, Paris; and 



Waldeyer, Professor of Anatomy, and permanent Secretary of the 

 Academy of Sciences, Berlin. 



The Commission met immediately after its nomination to elect its 

 officers and arrange the program of its activities. Professor Waldeyer 



