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was chosen President, Professor Sergi Vice-President, and Dr. Papill- 

 ault Secretary and Reporter. 



Dr. Papillault read a letter which he had received from M. Chantre, 

 in reply to the demand which he [Dr. Papillault] had made for his 

 [M. Chantre's] report on the efforts for the unification of anthropolog- 

 ical measurements undertaken by the International Congress of An- 

 thropology of Moscow. The main part read as follows: 



"I have been, in fact, charged with such a report at the Congress of 

 Moscow for the Congress of Paris. But as the quest on [of unification 

 of anthropological measurements] had not been made a part of the 

 regular program at the Moscow meeting, Professor Virchow, Chairman 

 of the International Commission of Craniometry, in accord with some 

 of our colleagues, asked that the said report should not be presented 

 until at the following [Paris] session." 



In M. Chantre's report on anthropology at the Moscow congress, 

 we read that two Commissions were named for the purpose of unify- 

 ing anthropological measurements. They were : 



1. The Anthropometric Commission, appointed following a commu- 

 nication by M. Zograff on "Anthropometric Methods as Practiced in 

 Russia, and on the Necessity of Forming an International Agreement 

 for Anthropometric Research. " This commission was to "endeavor 

 to unify as far as possible the methods of anthropometric observa- 

 tions/' and to report at the next session. It was composed of MM. 

 Anoutchine, Bogdanoff, Chantre, Kollman, Malieff, Sergi, Tikhom- 

 iroff, Virchow, and Zograff. M. Bogdanoff was elected its President 

 and M. Zograff the Secretary and Reporter. The headquarters of the 

 commission were with the Imperial Society of Natural Sciences and 

 Anthropology of Moscow. 



2. The Craniometric Commission. On the motion of Professor Koll- 

 man of Basle the Congress named also a commission to revise the Con- 

 vention of Frankfort, with the object of securing for anthropology an 

 international system of craniometric measurements. This commis- 

 sion consisted of MM. Anoutchine, Bogdanoff, Chantre, Kollman, 

 Malieff, Sergi, Virchow, and Zograff. Professor Virchow was elected 

 its President, Professor Anoutchine its Secretary-Reporter. 



The letter from M. Chantre shows further that neither of these 

 commissions has reached any appreciable results. The Anthropo- 

 metric Commission, it seems, has never met; while the Craniometric 

 Commission held only two meetings during the session of Moscow, 

 without reaching any ageement. 



