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Report of the Anthropometric Gorrhmittee, consisting of JMr. F. 

 Galton, Dr. Beddoe, Mr. Brabrook {Secretary and Reporter), 

 Sir Gr. Campbell, Dr. Farr, Mr. F. P. P^ellows, Major-G-eneral 

 PiTT-EiVERS, Mr. J. Park Harrison, Mr. James Heywood, Mr. 

 P. Hallett, Professor Leone Levi, Dr. F. A. Mahomed, Dr. 

 MuiRHEAD, Sir Rawson Rawson, Mr. Charles Egberts, and 

 the late Professor Rolleston. 



[Plates III. and IV.] 

 1. — The Committee were first appointed in 1875, and instructed to 

 continue the collection of observations on the systematic examination of 

 heights, weights, &c., of human beings in the British Empire, and the 

 publication of photographs of the typical races of the empire. It may be 

 convenient to recapitulate briefly what the Committee have done in 

 previous years. 



2. — In the first year they prepared schedules and instructions and 

 had them printed, and purchased a small outfit of instruments to send 

 to places where measurements were to be made. The co-operation of 

 inspectors of the army, of the navy, of factories, and of pauper schools 

 was secured. 



3. — In the second year the Committee obtained a series of measure- 

 ments of the 2nd Royal Surrey Militia from Colonel Lane Fox (now 

 General Pitt-Rivers) and circulated copies of his report as a model for 

 other observers. They further revised the instructions, prepared a book 

 of lithographed patterns of hair colours, added to the collections of 

 instruments for lending, and initiated the work of collecting typical 

 photographs. 



4. — In the third year the collection of statistics was actively pro- 

 ceeded with, and returns were obtained of a few well-defined classes, as 

 boys in Westminster school, letter-sorters in the Post Office, criminals, &c. 

 Tables were prepared from these, and a Report by Mr. Galton on the 

 returns of criminals was printed and circulated. Progress was made in 

 the collection of photographs. 



5. — In the fourth year the Committee continued the collection and 

 tabulation of observations. They had by that time obtained statistics of 

 about 12,000 individuals, which were sufficiently complete to justify the 

 publication of tables of average height and weight, and of the ratio of 

 weight to height. They had been furnished by the Warden of Christ's 

 Hospital with the records in his possession which enabled Sir Rawson 

 Rawson, one of the members, to construct a series of tables, serving as a 

 model for similar observations. Mr. Roberts prepared for the Committee 

 a series of tables and charts, showing the relation of height and weight 

 in the several classes of the English population, as compared with the 

 observations of Americans and Belgians published by Drs. Bowditch, 

 Baxter, and Quetelet respectively. 



6. — In the fifth year the Committee were able to double the number 

 of observations, and to reduce them to order by adopting a scheme of 

 classification. They selected from the returns those which related to a 

 standard class living under the most favourable conditions witb respect 

 to fresh air, exercise, and wholesome and sufficient food, and prepared 

 a series of tables relating to that class. They also digested the returns 

 relating to the colour of hair and eyes in the standard class, and sum- 

 marised the statistics of height and weight from persons of country 

 1881. Q 



