ON ANTHROPOMETRIC INVESTIGATION IN THE BRITISH ISLliS. 38o 



lengthy period, and therefore should, if possible, be eutnisted to the 

 teacher. Graduated schedules for use in schools have not yet been drawn 

 up, but the teachers — who, it must be remembered, at any rate in the 

 elementary schools, have received some training in the observation of the 

 psychical characters of childhood — may select for themselves from the 

 schedule tentatively suggested by the Psychological Sub-Committee the 

 characters with which they feel themselves most competent to deal. 



With regard to the record of observations, unless a special inquiry is 

 necessitated by local circumstances, some uniform system should be 

 adopted, and the method of envelopes and cards suggested in the previous 

 year's Report, which includes a record of family history, seems most 

 desirable. 



To secure the full value of the records a central body should be 

 established upon vrhich should devolve the comparison and statistical 

 treatment of the observations made. Its duties should include the 

 determination of average values, standard deviations, and correlations in 

 different conditions ; and when this has been done, the I'eporting the 

 results of an examination of the material submitted to it to local 

 education authorities and others interested. 



SCHEDULES. 



Schedules may be in card form or a number of schedules may be bound 



in book form. In some cases it may be found convenient to enter the 



measurements as they ai'e made 



on cards, and afterwards enter the 



results in a book, each volume of 



which should contain material 



which is as homogeneous as pos- 



"*^ • sible, i.e. of the same age, class, &c. 



Agfi Schedules will vary in com- 



Weiaht plexity according to the number 



of data to be collected about each 

 Stature 



Name {in fall) 



subject. 



Hair-colour , ,- i Annexed is a schedule suitable 



Results of Medical Insjjeetlon : ^or entering perhaps the minimum 



1 useful number of data, but which 



j is sufficient for the present requirc- 



— — ' ments of the Board of Education 



Place of Observation ■ ^his schedule may be printed on a 



„. . I card, with one corner bevelled oft" 



Signature of Observer and Date: ' ^^ facilitate putting it in the cor- 



rect position in the box or drawer. 



Any special data about the indi- 

 y vidual or his environment may be 



' entered on the back of tlie card. 



Cards of children of the same ago should be preferably kept together. 



