654 EEPOET— 1893. 



Anthropometric Laboratory. — Report of the Committee, consistirig 

 of Sir W. H. Flower (Chairman), Dr. J. G-. GtAKSON (Secretary), 

 Mr. Gf. W. Bloxam, Professor A. C. Haddon, and Dr. Wilber- 

 FORCE Smith. (Draivn up by Dr. J. G-. Garson, Secretary.) 



The Committee have to report that at the Edinburgh meeting of the 

 Association last year excellent accommodation was provided for the 

 Anthropometric Laboratory near to the meeting-room of the Anthropo- 

 logical Section. The services of a clerk were, as usual, placed at the 

 disposal of the Committee, and by the kind permission of Mr. Francis 

 Galton those of the official measurer at his laboratory in South Kensing- 

 ton Museum were again available for measuring the members of the 

 Association who visited the laboratory. 



The schedule of observations and measurements made on each person 

 examined was the same as has been used for several years past by the 

 Committee, and includes the sex, age, birthplace, colour of eyes and 

 hair, profile of nose, height when standing, sitting, and kneeling, vertical 

 projection from the vertex of the head to the tragus, mouth, and chin, 

 length and breadth of the head, length and breadth of nose, length of 

 cubit and hand, span of arms, weight in ordinary clothing, strength of 

 pull with each hand, vital capacity of lungs, strength of vision, sense of 

 colour, and in males the circumference of the chest during forced inspi- 

 ration and expiration respectively. 



Since the close of the meeting the observations recorded during it 

 have been carefully worked up, under the direction of the Secretary, after 

 the plan which has been adopted in previous years. 



The Committee ask to be reappointed and to have a sum of 5L again 

 placed at their disposal. 



The following are the results of the observations made on the 55 males 

 and 49 females who presented themselves for measurement at the Labora- 

 tory during the course of the meeting. 



Aij(\ — The males varied in age from 17 to 72 years. Of these 4 were 

 tinder 20 years, 19 were 20 and under 30 years, 16 were 30 and under 

 40 years, 4 were 40 and under 50 years, 6 were 50 and under 60 years, 

 4 were 60 and under 70, and 2 were 70 and 72 years. 



The ages of the females varied from 16 to 59 years. Four were 

 under 20 years, 16 were 20 and under 30 years, 15 were 30 and under 

 40 years, 7 were 40 and under 50 years, and 7 were 50 and under 

 60 years. 



Between the ages of 24 and 56 there were 38 males and 40 females. 

 Ten of the males and 8 of the females were below 24 years of age, and 7 

 of the males and one female were over 56 years of age ; 70 per cent, of 

 the males and 82 per cent, of the females were fully developed and in 

 the prime of life. 



Birtliplace and Residence. — Thirty-eight per cent, of the males were 

 Scotch by birth, and44 were English. The remainder were Irish and persons 

 born in British dependencies, or foreigners from various parts of Europe. 



Of the females 27 per cent, were Scotch by birth, 56 per cent. 

 English, 8 per cent. Irish, principally from Belfast, and therefore 



