ON Tin: .'^irUVEY of EASTEUN r.VLE.STINE. 



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separation. It seems pi-obable, however, that while the Nnmmulitic 

 limestones predominate in tlie Kiryptian and Xubi.in areas, those of the 

 Cretaceous period were more fully developed over thu area of Arabia 

 Petra^a and Palestine. 



' Tlie scientitic results of which the above is a snrnmary are intended 

 to be ])ublished in. c.-'Ii'iixd by the Palestint! Exploration Fund, together 

 with a g(;ologicnl map of the whole district, and ono on a larger scale of 

 Wiuly el Arabah. The popular narrative of the expedition will appear 

 before the close of the year.' 



Report 



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■porf of ihc Coiitiu'Uae, consist! )if/ of ]\Ir. BuAiiHOOK {Sccretavji), 

 yU. FnANCis (rAT/rox, Sir Eawsox Kawsox, and Mr. ('. Koherts, 

 (ippoliiU'd fur the pii rpose <>/ defraj/iii;/ the expunnes of complct- 

 iiKj tlie prepdrat'ioii of the final Report of the Anthropometric 

 Committee. 



Tin; members of tlie Committee report : — 



1. That they have met and have applied the 10/. voted to them in 

 ])iiyincnt to Mr. .F. Henry Young for his assistance in the calculation of 

 the tables in the final report. 



2. That they have received from D-. C. K. Ord, Jl.N., Dr. Power, 

 (if Her ^lajesty's Convict Prison at Portsmouth, and other gentlemen, 

 additional iuiVirniatiou and sngtjestions of new branches of iriquiry. Dr. 

 Ord's ob.servations have been published in the annual report of the West 

 Kent Xatural History. Microscopical, and Photographic Society. Obser- 

 vations on Eyesight, and a Scale of Physical Proportions, by ^Ir. Charles 

 Itoberts, are appended to (his reporr. 



;!. That they have had brought under their notice from mai\y quarters 

 evidence of the interest wdiich the work of the Anthroponiotric Conmiittec 

 lias excited, and of the desire to follow it up. 



I. That thoy recommend, therefore, that a small committee should bo 

 reappointed for the ])iirpose of continuing and promoting the collection 

 of Anthropometric observations. 



Ohservatlons on Eijesi'jlil, rontribnled hi/ ^^l•. G. Jtoherts. 



^luch unnecessary alarm has been caused in this country by the 

 juihlication of observations made in Germany on the deteriorating 

 inlliicnces of certain occupations, and especially of school and college life, 

 on the eyesight of children and young persons. The statistics collected 

 by the Anthropometric (/ommittee, though not so numerous as could be 

 wished, shew that no such deterioration occurs in England, but, on the 

 contrary, that between ages 10 and 40 years a slight improvemeni takes 

 place, a result Avhich might be expected from the operation of the 

 physiological law that the fnncti(m of an organ increases with its iise. 

 As no J'lnglish statistics of eyesight bearing on this subject have been 

 published, the following may bo acceptable. 



Observations were made by means of ihe Army test-dots on all classes 

 of the population following town and country occupations. The test-dots 



