SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN. 33 



ORDINARY MEETING. 

 9xn FEBRUARY, 1912. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. 



Mr. J. F. Tocher, B.Sc., F.I.C., Lecturer on Statistics and Statistical 

 Methods, read a paper on " Statistical Methods applied to Anthropometry." 



After discussing the application of exact statistical methods to anthropo- 

 metry, Mr. Tocher dwelt on the theoretical side of the study, and said that 

 in the past there had been in many cases too much speculation without any 

 real foundation in fact. In other cases the data used had been too meagre. 



What was really wanted was a thoroughly organised arid well thought 

 out survey of the British Isles. He also referred to the important part which 

 the Society might play in such a survey. 



The lecture was fully illustrated by diagrams shown with the epidiascope. 



