REPORT OF THE ANTHROPOMETRIC COMMITTEE. 253 
Final Report of the Anthropometric Committee, consisting in 
1882-3 of Mr. F. Gatton (Chairman), Dr. BEDDoE, Mr. BRABROOK 
(Secretary), Mr. Frank Fetitows, Mr. James Heywoop, Pro- 
fessor LEONE Levi, Dr. F. A. Mayomep, Mr. J. E. Price, 
Lieut.-General Pirt-Rivers, Sir Rawson W. Rawson, and Mr. 
C. Rozperts. Associates, Dr. T. G. BaLrour, Dr. J. H. GLADSTONE, 
Inspector-General Lawson, Dr. W. OGLE.’ Drawn wp by Mr. 
C. Roperts and Sir Rawson W. Rawson. 
[PLATES IV.—X.] 
1. Tae Committee, originally appointed in 1875, and aided by succes- 
sive grants, of which it has expended 280/., has made a Report in each of 
the five years 1878 to 1882, and now submits its final Report. 
2. Not that the work open to the Committee is exhausted, although it 
has to a great extent supplied what was pointed out in its Reports of 
1881 and 1882 as chiefly wanting, or that its conclusions are to its own 
mind complete and satisfactory. But it would require more time and 
larger funds than are at the disposal of the Committee to prosecute its 
inquiries, even with the materials now in its possession, to the end which 
it has had in view ; and the Committee is of opinion that the most useful 
course will be to bring before the Association the results of its past 
labours, indicating at the same time the conclusions which it considers to 
be sufficiently established by the facts ascertained, and the deficiencies, 
both of data and methods, which remain to be supplemented, either by 
individual exertion, or by the reappointment of a similar Committee at 
some future period under the auspices of the Association. 
3. In order to furnish a complete review of the information obtained, 
it will be necessary to refer to tables and data contained in previous 
reports. A list of these Reports is furnished ini a note.? 
Objects and Operations of the Committee. 
4, The Committee was appointed for the purpose of collecting obser- 
vations on the systematic examination of the height, weight, and other 
physical characters of the inhabitants of the British Isles. 
5. Its operations in each year are described in the introduction to its 
Report of 1881. The description and amount of the statistics which it 
has collected, and the names of the persons to whom it is indebted for 
the collection, are detailed chiefly at the commencement of its several 
Reports from 1880 to 1882. 
6. Among the objects early aimed at by the Committee, and prose- 
cuted by it up to the year 1881, was the collection and comparison of 
photographs of the typical races of the United Kingdom; but at the 
meeting of that year this inquiry was assigned to a separate Committee, 
upon whom will devolve the duty of reporting upon this branch of the 
general subject. i ; 
1 The late Dr. William Farr was a member, and Chairman of the Committee from 
1875 to 1879. 
2 1, Report for 1878, 5 pp. (numbered pp. 182-6 in the Annual Report of the 
' Association). 2, Report, 1879, 35 pp.; ibid. pp. 175-209. 3, Report, 1880, 41 pp. ; 
ibid. pp. 120-59. 4, Report, 1881, 48 pp.; ibid. pp. 225-72. 5, Report, 1882, 3 pp. ; 
dbid. pp. 278-80. An Index to the Tables is given in Appendix U. 
