ON ANTHROPOMETRIC INVESTIGATION IN THE BRITISH ISLES 199 
The Anthropological Institute has presented to the Lord President 
of Council a memorial praying that the recommendations of the Physical 
Deterioration Committee, having reference to an Advisory Committee, 
an Anthropometric Survey, and a Register of Sickness, should be carried 
into effect. This memorial is supported by the Childhood Society, the 
‘ Sociological Society, the head-masters of most of the public schools, 
and many other influential persons. 
The Committee again beg to thank the Anthropological Institute for 
providing them with headquarters and granting permission to hold meet- 
ings in their rooms. 
The Committee desire to be reappointed, with instructions to con- 
tinue the work indicated in the above report. The grant of 10/. made 
to the Committee last year has now been expended. The Committee 
consider that the work which they are carrying out will be of the 
greatest value in standardising anthropometric work in this and possibly 
in other countries. If the work is to be effectively continued a somewhat 
larger expenditure than hitherto will be necessary. The Committee, if 
reappointed, ask for a grant of 30/. 
Sranparp List or ANATOMICAL DIMENSIONS. 
A. CRANIUM, 
The Cranium is the part of the skull which forms the protective bony 
covering for the brain. 
Diameters (Calliper measurements). 
1. Maximum length.—F rom the most prominent point of the glabella, 
or prominence in the mid-line between the two eyebrows, to the most 
distant point in the middle line on the back of the head, known as the 
occipital point. The fixed point of the callipers is first applied to the 
glabella and kept there, while the other point is moved over the back of 
the head (occiput). Care must be taken to observe that the fixed point 
has not moved off the glabella during the measurement, and that the 
callipers have not been deflected from the median vertical plane. The 
pressure of the points of the callipers on the head should be as much as 
can be comfortably borne by the person under examination. 
2. Maximum breadth.—Measured wherever it can be found above the 
plane of the earholes. The callipers may be held in a vertical or in a 
horizontal plane and moved about until the maximum diameter is ascer- 
tained, the observer being careful to keep the points of the callipers 
exactly opposite to each other, z.e. in the same vertical and horizontal 
planes. The pressure of the points on the head should be such as can be 
comfortably borne by the person under examination. 
3. Minimum frontal breadth—The minimum diameter obtainable by 
the callipers, held with their points in. the same plane and with the 
maximum comfortable pressure, between the frontal crests, the ridges of 
bone which may be felt curving upwards and backwards on either side 
of the cranium immediately above and to the outer side of the orbits if 
the forehead be grasped between the finger and thumb, 
