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were appointed for the purpose (see p. 6), but they accomplished 

 nothing substantial. The interest in the subject was however well 

 aroused by this time, and the anthropologists meeting in 1906 with 

 the Xlllth International Congress of Prehistoric Anthropology and 

 Archeology in Monaco, undertook seriously and in a large measure 

 successfully the formation of an International Agreement on Anthro- 

 pometry. The work thus auspiciously begun was continued by the 

 anthropologists meeting with the XlVth Congress, in 1912, at Geneva. 

 The task thus undertaken is not yet finished ; but what has been done 

 furnishes a sound and large nucleus for further developments. At the 

 occasion of the XVIIIth International Congress of Americanists, at 

 London, in 1912, foundations were laid for the formation of an inter- 

 national association of anthropologists,' and one of the essential 

 features of such an association must be a permanent International 

 Anthropometric Board, which will deal with all questions relating 

 to the harmonization of anthropometric methods, instruments, and 

 procedures. 



The results in anthropometric unification thus far attained are em- y 



bodied in two reports, published originally in French in 1906, and in 

 the French, English and German in 1912. As these agreements are 

 of fundamental importance to every worker in physical anthropology, 

 and as they are not as readily available as desirable, they will be here 

 republished. In translating the French report of 1906 there were 

 found a number of points which needed a few words of explanation 

 and this report, therefore, is annotated. 



THE INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT FOR THE UNIFI- 

 CATION OF CRANIOMETRIC AND CEPHALO- 

 METRIC MEASUREMENTS 



Report of the Commission Appointed bt the XIII International Congress 

 OP Prehistoric Anthropoloqt and Archeoloot, at Monaco, 



1906 



By Dr. G. PAPiLLAin.T, Reporter op the Commission 



Translated from Dr. PapiUault's report in L'Anthropologie, 1906, XVII, 659-572, by A. H. 



On the motion of MM. Hamy, Papillault and Verneau, the Organ- 

 izing Committee of the Xlllth International Congress of Prehistoric 



' See Marett, R. R. Report of an International Conference, etc. Proc. XVIIIth 

 Intern. Cong. Amer., London, 1913, i, LXXXVI. 



