TRANSACTIONS OF SECTION D. — DEPT. ANTHROPOLOGY. 625 



of the common flint of Judaea. Its length is 4-4 inches, width 3"5 inches, and greatest 

 thickness 1*4 inches. Either when being made or during use, it has lost a large 

 splinter from its bottom edge, nearly to the centre, and has apparently been much 

 used, as its cutting edge is much chipped and worn, and it has recently been chipped 

 a number of times by being struck with the hoofs of passing horses and other 

 animals. 



SATURDAY, AUGUST 28. 

 The Department did not meet. 



MONDAY, AUGUST 30. 

 The following Report and Papers were read : — 

 1. Report of the Anthropometric Committee. — See Reports, p. 120. 



2. On a PocJcet Registrator for Anthropological Purposes. 

 By Francis Galton, M.A., F.R.S. 



The author exhibited a small instrument ^ inch thick, 4 inches long and If 

 wide, furnished with five stops, each communicating by a ratchet with a separate 

 index arm that moves round its own dial-plate. The registrator may be grasped 

 and held unseen in either hand with a separate finger over each stop. When any 

 finger is pressed on the stop below it, the corresponding index arm moves forward 

 one step. Guides are placed between the stops to ensure the fingers occupying 

 their proper positions when the instrument is seized and used in the pocket, or 

 when it is slipped inside a loose glove or other cover. It is possible by its means 

 to take anthropological statistics of any kind among crowds of people without 

 exciting observation, which it is otherwise exceedingly difficult to do. The 

 statistics may be grouped under any number of headings not exceeding five. If it 

 should ever be thought worth while to use a registrator in each hand, ten headings 

 could be employed. The instrument that was exhibited worked well, but it was 

 the first of its kind and might be improved. It was made by Mr. Hawkesley, 

 surgical instrument maker, 300 Oxford Street, London. The author also drew 

 attention to the ease with which registers may be kept by prickiDg holes in paper 

 in diflerent compartments with a fine needle. A great many holes may be 

 pricked at haphazard close together, without their running into one another or 

 otherwise making it difficult to count them afterwards. The mark is indelible, 

 and any scrap of paper suffices. The needle ought to project a very short way 

 out of its wooden holder, just enough to perforate the paper, but not more. It 

 can then be freely used without pricking the fingers. This method, however, 

 requires two hands, and its use excites nearly as much observation as that of a 

 pencil. 



3. Additional Remarks on the Greek Profile (incorrectly so called). 

 By J. Park Harrison, M.A. 



It was stated in a previous communication that the continuity of the forehead 

 and nasal-bone in a straight line, which is so marked a peculiarity in early Greek 

 statues and coins, is not found to exist either in ancient Greek skulls in our museums, 

 1880. S S 



