390 REPORT— 1903, 



1. Are you engaged in any anthropometric investigations 1 If so, 

 what measurements do you usuall}'' take, and what classes of people have 

 you measured ? (Enclose copy of Schedule in use, if any, adding 

 description of exact mode of measurement.) 



2. What instruments are you accustomed to use for making the 

 measurement;^ ? 



3. When were the measurements first taken, and over how long a 

 period are your records of measurements available 1 



4. Are the measurements published 1 If so, in what form, in full or 

 in abstract 1 If in absti'act, are the original records available ? 



5. With what object have the observations been made — e.g. identifi- 

 cation ; registration of growth ^ ; detection of racial differences ; correla- 

 tion with occupations ; determination of influence of relationships ; or 

 other purpose ? 



6. Have assistants been employed in making any of the measurements ? 

 If so, have they received any special training, and of what kind ? 



7. How far do you regard the results which you have obtained hitherto 

 as satisfactory ; and what modifications, if any, are suggested by j'our 

 past experience ? 



8. Add any remarks not falling within the previous headings. 



Forty-seven circulars were sent out and sixteen replies were received. 

 A summary of the replies is given in the Appendix. 



The following remarks and .suggestions or'iginating out of the Secretary's 

 report have been drawn up by the Chairman of tlie Committee :— 



Memarks and Suggestions hy Professor Cleland. 



It is disappointing that so few answers have been given in respon.se to 

 the Committee's circular, and that those which have been sent show in so 

 many cases work confined to certain departinents of Anthropometry to 

 the exclusion of otheis ; but, having beeii kindly furnished by our 

 Secretary and Reporter, Mr. Gray, with a sight of the materials at his 

 disposal, I cannot refrain from expressing my belief that he has made out 

 of them as mucli as could be made. 



So far as explicit answers to the questions in our circular are con- 

 cerned, the Committee cannot be said to have l)een very successful, but 

 the absence of direct results in that respect suggests the question how far 

 this or some such Committee may be of use by itself proposing some 

 sucli method of research as may witli advantage be generally adopted 

 with a view to the facilitation and organisation of research. 



Tho following suggestions occur to me : — ■ 



1. Inasmuch as age and sex are of themselves sources of variations of 

 most distinct de.scriptions, I should say that, except for the purpose of 

 studying these two kinds of valuations, measurements should all be made 

 on males not younger than 30 years and not older than about 45. I 

 have shown in the ' Philosophic Transactions ' many years ago that the 

 male growth is typical, and that the deviations which occur in the female 

 are inconstant in nature and degree. I base my recommendation, both 

 in respect of age and of sex, on my own experience in craniometry, but 

 I would extend it to measurements of all parts of the body. 



' In th}g case state at wjiat inteirvals the measurements were repeated. 



