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Committee. This Committee should consist of three members—one from 
each of the three divisions of the United Kingdom. These appointments 
should be honorary, but the ordinary allowances for travelling expenses 
should be granted. 
The members of the Committee should be anthropologists of acknow- 
ledged reputation who are acquainted with the structure of the human 
body and the laws which regulate its development and growth. They 
should be likewise men of weight and influence. It might be possible to 
carry out the work in England and Scotland without such local repre- 
sentatives, but I do not think that it would be possible to do so in Ireland ; 
and indeed I consider that in each of the three countries the inquiry could 
be much more advantageously prosecuted by having a Committee of this 
kind co-operating with the permanent officials of the Bureau. 
The duties of this Committee would be: 
(a) To determine the measurements and observations to be made. 
(6) To determine the instruments to be employed. 
(c) To construct in connection with the Director of the Central Bureau 
the form of card on which the observations are to be recorded. 
(d) Each in his own country to advise and assist the permanent officers 
in any cases of difficulty that may arise. 
Il. Central Bureau. 
The Central Bureau should be established in London, and should be 
organised as a Committee of the Privy Council 
It would probably be necessary to appoint a Director and Deputy 
Director. One of these should be an anthropologist acquainted with the 
anatomy and development of the human body, and with experience in 
anthropometrical work ; the other should be a statistician trained in the 
methods of Professor Karl Pearson. 
A Statistical Department would also require to be organised in the 
Bureau. The work carried out in this office would be the following : 
(a) To keep the standard instruments and issue all the instruments 
required in the inquiry. 
(b) To issue the cards on which the observations are to be recorded to 
those engaged in the measuring, &c. 
(c) To arrange surprise visits at intervals to different schools, &c., 
with the view of determining whether the results of the surveyors are 
accurate. 
(d) To receive the cards after they have been filled up, classify them, 
prepare the requisite statistical tables, and publish a yearly report. 
(e) To form in London a centre where the different classes of the 
people may be measured, and the centre in England where the surveyors 
or measurers may be instructed in the methods of making their observa- 
tions, and in those anatomical details which are requisite for the acquisition 
of accurate results. 
(f) To disseminate information on anthropometrical work, and create 
an interest in the public in regard to the importance of maintaining the 
national physique. 
III. Surveyors or Measurers. 
The real ditficulty in devising a working scheme consists in deter- 
mining how the measurements are to be carried out. If the labours of 
