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to prove that the Claimant was not Tichborne, but also to 

 show that he was some one else. I feel convinced that at the 

 present time the greater confidence that is reposed in the 

 methods of Anthropometry or close observance of physical 

 characters, and in the persistence of such characters through 

 life, would have greatly simplified the whole case ; and I 

 would strongly recommend all who have nothing about their 

 lives they think it expedient to conceal to place themselves 

 under the hands of Mr. Galton, or one of his now numerous 

 disciples, and get an accurate and unimpeachable register of 

 all those characteristics which will make loss of identity at any 

 future period a sheer impossibility. 



Partly with this object in view, the Association has, for 

 several years past, during each of its meetings, opened, under 

 the superintendence of Dr. Garson, an Anthropometric 

 Laboratory, on the plan of the admirable institution of 

 the same name which has been carried on in the South 

 Kensington Museum since the beginning of the year 1888, 

 under the direction and at the sole cost of Mr. Francis 

 Galton, in which up to the present time more than 7000 

 complete sets of measurements have been made and recorded. 

 The results obtained at the British Association meetings have 

 been published in the Annual Eeports of the Association, and 

 though on a smaller scale than Mr. Galton's, the operations of 

 the laboratory have been most useful in diffusing a knowledge 

 of the value of anthropometric work, and of the methods by 

 which it is carried on. 



For many years an " Anthropometric " Committee of the 

 Association, in which the late Dr. W. Farr, Mr. F. Galton, 

 Mr. C. Koberts, Dr. Beddoe, Sir Kawson Eawson, and others, 

 took an active part, was engaged in collecting statistical 

 information relating to the physical characters, including 

 stature, weight, chest-girth, colour of eyes and hair, strength 

 of arms, etc., of the inhabitants of the British Isles ; and their 

 reports, illustrated by maps and diagrams, were published in 

 the annual volume issued by the Association. This Committee 

 terminated its labours in 1883, although, as was fully 

 acknowledged in the concluding report, the subject was by 

 no means completely exhausted. 



