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PREFACE 



AS the Introductory Chapter of this Volume deals with its 

 aim and scope, any further exposition of these would be 

 superfluous here. I hope that the materials thus brought together 

 may prove useful to Students, particularly to those who combine 

 Physical Anthropology with Human Anatomy in preparation 

 for the Cambridge Natural Sciences Tripos. Inasmuch as such 

 students are already familiar with anatomical terms, a general 

 acquaintance with the significance of these has been assumed. 



I believe the method indicated, however inadequately, herein 

 to be the most profitable for anthropological work on the physical 

 side : and I am convinced that upon some such basis only, can 

 Physical Anthropology justify its claim to an independent place 

 among the biological sciences. 



The subject is now perfectly well defined, and possesses so 

 extensive a literature, that even a cursory review like the present 

 volume has assumed proportions for which I must offer an apology. 

 Several departments of the subject (and particularly Anthro- 

 pometry) have merely been sketched in outline. A certain 

 amount of repetition will be noticed, but is justifiable in view 

 of the greater completeness conferred upon successive sections 

 of the book. Most of the illustrations have been prepared 

 by myself, in many instances from the original specimens or 

 preparations. 



