PREFACE Vll 



matical methods employed in tabulating and expressing the results of 

 measurements, for the especial benefit of that large class of students 

 who find their chief interest in the morphological relations of the subjects 

 treated, but whose mathematical ability is not great, and who are not 

 able readily to follow the more abstruse methods and expositions of them 

 made use of by biometricians. 



The student is introduced to the bibliography of the subject by a 

 series of footnotes, which are found under each heading, and are intended 

 to guide him to certain of the most important papers, generally the ones 

 especially followed in this book. From the bibliographies given here, in 

 their turn, a more complete knowledge of the literature may be obtained. 



The main work is followed by two appendices, the one (A} giving the 

 actual measurements of 93 skulls and skull fragments of Indians from 

 Southern New England, the other (B) the bodily proportions of 100 

 Smith College Students, both sets of measurements the result of work car- 

 ried out in the Smith College Anthropological Laboratory by graduate 

 students. These may prove useful as samples of the kind of work treated 

 in this manual, and will be of interest to use in comparison with the re- 

 sults of the practical reader. 



HARRIS HAWTHORNE WILDER, PH. D. 



SMITH COLLEGE ANTHROPOLOGICAL LABORATORY, 

 Northampton, Mass. 



