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with a pencil split longitudinally and held vertically. Special dots are 

 to be added, marking (a) the extreme ends of the interdigital clefts, 

 and (6) on each side, the position of the metacarpo-phalangeal articu- 

 lations. 



48. Contour of the foot The right foot rests on a sheet of paper, the 

 leg being perpendicular to the plane of this surface. Draw four short 

 lines to mark the positions of the ends of the malleoli, and of the meta- 

 tarso-phalangeal articulation of each side. Then the contour of the 

 foot is to be traced in the same way as described for the hand (cf . No. 

 47). The extreme end of each interdigital cleft is to be marked by a 

 dot. It is useless to trace the inner border of the foot between the 

 malleolar point and the metatarso-phalangeal point, for this part of 

 the tracing is always unreliable. 



49. Height of the plantar arch. The foot being placed in the posi- 

 tion requisite for tracing its contour (cf. No. 48), the vertical distance 

 is to be measured between the plane of support and the upper border 

 of the navicular bone. Secondary measurement. 



IV. 



The Commission and the Congress also adopted unanimously the 

 following proposal and resolutions: 



(a) For the reconstruction of the stature from observations on the long 

 bones of the skeleton. 



For the reconstruction of the stature with the aid of the long bones, 

 the maximum length shall be measured in all cases save in those of the 

 femur which is to be measured in the oblique position, and the tibia 

 which is also to be measured in the oblique position, the spine being 

 excluded. 



(6) The Commission wishes to state that it is desirable that in the 

 graphic representation of cranial forms, either the plane of Broca or of 

 the Frankfort Agreement should be employed by anthropologists. 



(c) The Commission holds that it is desirable that anthropologists 

 should append complete lists of measurements to their publications. 



(Signed}, W. L. H. DUCKWORTH 



(One of the Recorders of the 

 International Commission). 



