2 Ame^ncan Statistical Association. 



the biologist, the ])o>/oh.>physicist, and even the routine 

 educatiopi^t, , It ,is cjearlj^ the part of wisdom to utilize the 

 material'' M'''J)re3eni;, in hand, partly in order that its actual 

 value may be ascertained, and partly because a comprehen- 

 sive and searching study of it would serve to indicate what 

 problems should be attacked next, and to suggest the most 

 hopeful means of attack in such problems. 



That the study of anthropometrical problems has become 

 more extensive and diversified recently is rendered evident 

 by comparing the number and variety of the titles of works 

 published since 1880, or even since 1890, with those published 

 between 1850 and 1880. (See appended Provisional List.) 

 It is noteworthy, moreover, that interest in the physiological 

 and psycho-physical bearings of anthropometrical science is 

 steadily increasing. [See the articles by Bolton (7), Bryan 

 (12), Burnham (13), Gilbert (15), Porter (22), Scripture 

 (26), and West (31) cited below]. 



As regards amount of statistical data and the discussion of 

 theoretical questions, the weightiest contributions to anthro- 

 pometrical science in America have been made in the depart- 

 ment of Military Anthropometry by Messrs. Elliott (J)^)^ 

 Gould (57), and Baxter (52). Next in rank, in the order 

 named, are the departments of Anthropometrv of School 

 Children (see Bowditch, 8, 9, and 10 ; Peckham, 20 and 21 ; 

 Porter, 22-25 ; and Boas, 5 and 6) ; and the Anthropometry 

 of Students (see Hitchcock, 91-102; Sargent, 106-109; 

 Enebuske, 88 and 89; and Wood, 113-117). The papers of 

 Beyer (53), Enebuske (88 and 89), and Porter (22) give 

 evidence of a growing tendency to attempt to correlate the 

 results of anthropometrical investigations, and the teachings 

 of physiology as to the development of functional power. 

 In the field of criticism and discussion of metliods the articles 

 of Boas (34), Gulick (38), and Porter (47) mark a new and 

 hopeful departure. Minot's paper (45) is a valuable contri- 

 bution to the theory of growth. Spiess, of Frankfurt am 

 Main, and Geissler and Ulitzsch, in Saxony, measured large 



