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faculties tested, by the best methods known to modern 

 science ? " I went on to describe what could be done 

 in this way by existing methods, and what more it 

 was desirable to have. 



When the International Exhibition of 1884 was 

 under consideration, I offered to equip and maintain a 

 Laboratory there, if a suitable place were given, the 

 woodwork set up, and the security of it taken off my 

 hands. This was done, and I arranged a long narrow 

 enclosure with trellis-work, in front and at its ends. 

 A table ran alongside the trellis-work on which the 

 instruments were placed and where the applicants 

 were tested, and a passage was left between the table 

 and the wall. This gave a quasi-privacy, while it 

 enabled outsiders to see a little of what was going on 

 inside. A doorkeeper stationed at one end admitted 

 a single applicant at a time, who had to pay threepence. 

 The superintendent took him through the tests in 

 turn, and dismissed him at the other end with his 

 schedule filled up. Sometimes I helped him ; then 

 two persons could be tested together, the one a little 

 in advance of the other. The arrangement worked 

 smoothly, and the Laboratory was seldom unemployed. 

 The measurements dealt with Keenness of Sight 

 and of Hearing ; Colour Sense, Judgment of Eye ; 

 Breathing Power ; Reaction Time ; Strength of Pull 

 and of Squeeze ; Force of Blow ; Span of Arms ; 

 Height, both standing and sitting; and Weight. 

 The ease of working the instruments that were used 

 was so great that an applicant could be measured in 

 all these respects, a card containing the results 

 furnished him, and a duplicate made and kept for 

 statistical purposes, at the total cost of the threepenny 



