VI PREFACE 



measurements of the living body, exclusive of the head and face, which 

 had been treated in 1906, and was published officially in three languages, 

 French, German, and English. The three official recorders, appointed 

 by the Committee to transcribe these prescriptions were, respectively, 

 Rivet, Schlaginhaufen, and Duckworth, and these three reports, made 

 to correspond in meaning as closely as possible, were published in France, 

 Germany, arid England. For the benefit of the United States Dr. George 

 Grant MacCurdy, one of the two American representatives on the Com- 

 mittee, published the same report, translated from Dr. Rivet's personal 

 copy, in two American periodicals, Science and the American Anthro- 

 pologist, both during 1912, and the same thing was done in other coun- 

 tries and languages, e.g., Frassetto's Italian version in the Rivista di 

 Antropologia. 



It was with a view to directing a broader American attention to this 

 vitally important branch of Anthropology that the present author, some- 

 time previous to 1912, drew up, based largely upon the prescription of 

 1906, a set of rules for the guidance of the laboratory student, principally 

 along the line of craniometry, and this manuscript was worked over by 

 his advanced students and himself, accompanying the actual measure- 

 ment of skulls. The appearance of the second set of rules, the prescrip- 

 tion of 1912, enabled him to add the authoritative rules for the principal 

 measurements of the living body. Thus the work, tested- in the labora- 

 tory by practical application, assumed somewhere near its present form. 



The granting of a Sabbatical leave in 1913 by the Trustees of Smith 

 College enabled the author to visit several of the European laboratories, 

 where he had the opportunity of inspecting the practical anthropometric 

 work carried on by some of the leading investigators in this field. He 

 here takes this opportunity of expressing his sincere thanks to them all, 

 who, in the midst of a busy term, found time to demonstrate to him their 

 equipment and especially their personal technical methods by actual 

 measurements. These include Prof. Fabio Frassetto in Bologna, Prof. 

 Otto Schlaginhaufen, the pupil and successor of Prof. Rudolf Martin in 

 Zurich, and especially Prof. Eugen Fischer in Freiburg in Breisgau, in 

 whose anthropological laboratory he spent several weeks. 



In 1914 appeared the long-awaited book of Prof. Martin, the "Lehr- 

 buch dei - Anthropologic," only a few months before the bursting of the 

 storm-cloud of a well-nigh universal World War, since which communica- 

 tion between the anthropologists of the two hemispheres became, for 

 four years, all but interrupted. At best, however, this exhaustive text- 

 book as it is large and expensive, and in the German language, is more or 

 less impractical for the average American student, and while of the great- 

 est value (o specialists, it does not fill (he needs of American Colleges and 

 Universities, at least so far as undergraduates are concerned. These 

 conditions caused the decision to publish the present volume, which has 

 again been thoroughly revised, and is now offered in a somewhat simpli- 



