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Irish Academy.' ' The principal objects of the observations are registration 

 of growth (at six -month intervals), correlation with occupations in 

 laboratory work, and detection of racial differences, ifec, in field work. 

 Assistants trained by Dr. Browne were employed in making measure- 

 ments. Dr. Browne agrees with Mr. Meyrick and Dr. Gladstone that 

 chest measurements and circumferences of the head are unreliable ; he 

 considers that the schedule used should be as simple as possible. 

 Assistants should have a thorough practical training in measuring ; 

 unskilled measui'ers are liable to make grave mistakes. Schedules used 

 in the laboratory and for field woi'k have been received from Dr. Bi'owne. 

 He considers it very desirable that a common form of schedule, or at 

 least a common series of observations, should be drawn up for the use 

 of all observers. He also recommends that standard skulls should be used 

 for checking and verifying methods of measurement. 



Cunningham, D. J., M.D., F.R.S. (Professor of Anatomy, The Univer- 

 sity, Edinburgh), writes that anthropometrical work has been carried on 

 for the last ten years in the Anthropological Laboratory of Trinity 

 College, Dublin. The Irish Laboratory has published numerous Reports 

 in the ' Proceedings' of the Royal Irish Academy, giving the results not 

 only of its Dublin work, but also of its yearly peripatetic field work 

 (see Browne, C. R., M.D.). 



Duckworth, W. L. H. (University Lecturer on Physical Anthropo- 

 logy, Cambridge), writes that the Anthropometric Committee of the 

 Cambridge Philosophical Society maintains an assistant who measures all 

 University members who present themselves at the Library of the Society. 

 The principal measurements are stature, span, length, breadth, and height 

 of head ; physiological measurements, r.g., visual acuity, strength of 

 grasp, lung capacity, are also made. In the University Laboratory of 

 Anthropology, instruction in Anthropometry is given, but no local 

 research is being conducted at the present date (August 1903). 



' The following is a list of papers on work done in connection with the Anthropo- 

 metric Laborator}', Trinity College, Dublin: Part I. I^aboratory Work. — 1. 'Some 

 New Anthropometrical Icsfrnments, C. K. Browne, M.D. (Pror. Ifoi/. Irish Acad., 

 'Ar(\ Series, vol. ii. No. ?,). 2. ' On .some Crania from Tipperary,' C. R. Browne, M.D. 

 (?V/(V/., :ird Series, vol. ii. No. 4). ?,. 'Studies in Iiish Craniolo.oy : the Ai-an Islands, 

 Co. Galway,' Professor A. C. Haddon {ihiil., 3rd Series, vol. ii. No. .f)). 4. ' On some 

 Human Remains recently discovered near Lismore,' D. J. Cunningham, M.D., F.R.S., 

 and C;. R. Browne, '^\.\). {ihid., 'MA Series, vol. iv. No. 4). 5. 'Report on some 

 Osseous Remains found at Old Connaught, Bray, Co. Dublin,' D. J. Cunningham, 

 M.D., F.R.S., and C. R. Browne, M.D. {ibid., I'.rd Scries, vol. iii. No. .'>). C. ' Report 

 on Prehistoric Burial near Newcastle, Co. VVicldow,' George Cotfey, C. R. Browne, 

 M.D., .ind T. J. Westropp, M.A. {ih'ul., vSrd Scries, vol. iv. No. 4). 7."' Report on the 

 Work done in the Anthropometric Iiaboratory of Trinity College, Dublin, from 1801 

 to ISiiS,' C. R. Browne, M.D. {ibid., 3rd Series, vol. v. No. 2). Part II. Field Work.— 

 1. ' The Ethnography of the Aran Islands, Co. G.alway,' Professor A. C. Haddon and 

 C. R. Browne, M.D.' (i/wVA, IS'.l?.). 2. 'The Ethnography of Inishbolin and Inish- 

 shark, Co. Galway,' C. R. Browne, TNI. D. ((WrZ., 3rd Series, vol. iii. No. 2). 3. 'The 

 Ethnography of tiie Mullet, Inishkea Islands, and Portacloy, Co. Mayo,' C. I{. Browne, 

 M.D. (v'i/(i, 3rd Series, vol. iv. No. 1). ^>. 'The Ethnography of Clare Island and 

 Inishturk, Co. Mayo ' {ihid., 3rd Series, vol. v. No. 1). G. ' Ethnography of Garumna 

 and Lettermullan, Co. Galway,' C. R. Browne, M.D. {ibid). 7. 'The Ethnography 

 of Carna and Mweenish, Co. Galway,' C. R. Browne, M.D. (ibid., 3rd Series, vol. vi. 

 No. 3). 



Papers will shortly be published on the following districts : Dunquin, co. Kerry ; 

 Malinmore and Malinbeg, co. Donegal ; thp district of Ardaialin, co. Donegal (by 

 p. R. Browne, M,D.). 



