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LABORATORY MANUAL OF ANTHROPOMETRY 



measurements in the living. It is called a Pelvimeter, and has a scale of 

 600 mm. 



Fig. 2. — Bertillon's type of calipers. (After Bertillon.) 



Slide Compass. — In the slide compass the scale rod is always straight, 

 and forms the handle, upon which the movable leg slides, to record its 



distance from the fixed leg (Fig. 1, 

 right hand). In the now more 

 usual anthropometric form the legs 

 project to an equal distance upon 

 each side of the scale and end upon 

 one side in sharp points, for use in 

 the measurement of bones, and 

 upon the other in rounded points, 

 flattened horizontally, for taking 

 the measurements of the living. 

 Bertillon used two forms, a smaller 

 and a larger, both differing in cer- 

 tain points from the one described 

 and figured here. The smaller size 

 possesses flanges along the sides of the legs, and t he movable leg is shorter 



Fig. 3. Flower's type of calipers. 

 Duckworth.) 



(After 



