8.j0 HispoRT— 1902. 



Small Screw Gauge. — Report of the Committee, consisting of Sir 

 W. H. Preece (Chairman), W. A, Price (Secretary), Lord Kel- 

 vin, Sir F. J. Bramwell, Sir H. Trueman Wood, Major-Gen. 

 Webber, Col. Watkin, Lieut.-Col. Crompton, A. Stroh, A. Le 

 Neve Foster, C. J. Hewitt, G. K. B. Elphinstone, E. Eigg, 

 C. V. Boys, J. Marshall Gorham, O. P. Clements, W Taylor, 

 Dr. K. T. Glazebrook, and Mark Barr, appointed to consider 

 means hy wJiich Practical Efect can be given to the introduction of 

 the Screio Gang e proposed Inj the Association in 188-1'. 



Thk Committee have received during the past year further evidence on 

 the subject of the small screw gauge. 



Mr. Mark Barr has been elected a member of the Committee. 



The principal institutions of the engineering profession, viz. — 



The Institution of Civil Engineers ; 



The Institution of Mechanical Engineers ; 



The Iron and Steel Institute ; 



The Institute of Naval Architects ; and 



The Institution of Electrical Engineers — • 



have formed a strong and important committee to consider the whole 



?Uestion of standardisation of engineering materials, tools, and machinery, 

 t is being favourably supported by the Government. The question of 

 screws must naturally come before them. The Committee propose to 

 submit evidence to that committee of the work they have done, and they 

 ask for reappointment for the ensuing year, with a grant of bl. to cover 

 posting and clerical work. 



Anthropometrie Investigations among the N'cdive Troops of the F(/i/ptian 

 Army. — Interim Report of the Committee, consisting of Professor 

 A. Macalister (Chairman), Dr. C. S. Myers (Secreia.ry), Sir 

 John Evaks, and Professor D. J. Cunningham. 



The Committee have to report that owing to the pressure of other work 

 since his return to England Dr. Myers has not yet been able to summarise 

 the results of the anthropometric work in Egypt and in the Soudan upon 

 which he was engaged last winter. In the present statement only a brief 

 description has been given of tlie material which he lias collected and of 

 the means by which it was obtained. The expenses of the research were 

 in part defrayed by the Government Grant Committee of the Royal 

 Society and by the British Association for the Advancement of Science. 

 The best thanks of the Committee are due to the Sirdar of the Egyptian 

 Army, Sir F. R. Wingate, K.C.B., &c., and to many of his officers for 

 their great interest and their unfailing assistance to Dr. Myers in his work. 

 The investigations were confined to the privates and non-commissioned 

 officers of the Egyptian Army. By the kind permission of the Sirdar, 

 Dr. Myers examined 1,005 men in the Egyptian battalion quartered at 

 Cairo, and 189 men in the Soudanese battalions at Khartoum and 

 Omdurman. The following measurements were taken ; — 



