Section I. 



REPORTS OF RESEARCH COMMITTEES. 



(a) ANTHROPOMETRIC COMMITTEE. 

 I.— NAMES OF COMMITTEE. 



Professor R. J. A. Berry 

 Dr. J. H. L. CuMPSTOx 

 Dr. J. S. C. Elkington 

 Mr. G. H. Kxibbs .. 

 Dr. R. H. Makgill . . 

 Dr. W. p. Norris . . 

 Dr. J. S. PuRDY 

 Dr. W. Ramsay Smith 

 Professor J. T. Wilson 

 Dr. Mary Booth 



Victoria. 



"Western Australia. 



Queensland. 



Commonwealtli. 



New Zealand. 



Commonwealtli. 



Tasmania. 



South Australia. 



New South Wales. 



Honorary Secretary. 



XL— PREFACE. 



The Anthropometric Committee desires to bring before members of 

 the medical and teaching professions and others interested in the 

 national physique the following matters : — 



(a) The importance of studying the physical development of 

 Australasian children by periodic measurement. 



(6) The desirabihty in such study of adopting the standard methods 

 of measurement laid down by the Anthropometric Com- 

 mittee of the British Association for the Advancement of 

 Science 1908. 



(c) The proposal that an Anthropometric Survey of school 



children shall be undertaken on uniform lines in Australia 

 and New Zealand. 



(d) The fact that the Australasian Medical Congress held in 



Sydney in September, 1911, afiirmed the desirabihty of 

 such a survey. 



