618 REPORT— 1892. 



Report of the Committee, consisting of Professor W. H. Flower 

 (Chairman), Dr. J. Gr. Gtarson (Secretary), Mr. Gr. W. Bloxam, 

 and Dr. Wilberforce Smith, for the purpose of carrying on 

 the work of the Anthropometric Laboratory. (Drawn up by 

 Dr. G ARSON, Secretary.) 



The Committee have to report that at the Cardiff meeting of the Asso- 

 ciation last year excellent accommodation near the Reception-room was 

 provided by the Local Committee for the Anthropometric Laboratory. 

 The services of a clerk were, as previously, placed at the disposal of the 

 Committee, and by the kind permission of Mr. Francis Galtou, F.R.S., 

 Sergeant Randall was again lent to your committee for the purpose of 

 measuring the members of the Association who visited the laboi^atory. 

 The Committee desire to express their high appreciation of Mr. Galton's 

 assistance in thus from year to year closing his own laboratory at South 

 Kensington during the meeting of the Association, so that Sergeant 

 Randall may be able to give his time to the work of the laboratory of 

 the Association, under the direction of Dr. Garson. Having the same 

 measurer from year to year is of the utmost importance in securing 

 uniformity of results, and will, it is hoped, make the collective statistics 

 of several years' observations, when presented to the Association and 

 published, of greater value than they would otherwise be. 



The number of applicants for measurement was very often considerably 

 greater than could be measured by the staff during the hours the laboratory 

 was open. The Committee regret that members of the Association had 

 often to wait, sometimes for a considerable time, before their turn for 

 measurement came round, especially during the last few days of the 

 meeting. To obviate this inconvenience as much as possible, it is de- 

 sirable that those who intend to visit the laboratory next year should do 

 so as early in the meeting as they can, since during part of the first and 

 second days the laboratory is open it often happens that the staff is not 

 fully occupied. 



The schedule of measurements and observations which can best be 

 made in the laboratory has now been fairly settled by experience of former 

 years, so that there is no material change in it to mention in this report. 

 The time which can be allotted to each candidate is necessarily limited, 

 and it has been the aim of the Committee to select tlie measurements and 

 observations which are of most importance and occupy least time, so as 

 to obtain as much information as possible. To this circumstance must be 

 attributed the absence of many tests, particularly those of a physiolo- 

 gical nature, from the schedule, which might have been made had time not 

 been an object of importance. The schedule includes the age, sex, birth- 

 place, colour of eyes and hair, the profile of the nose, height when stand- 

 ing, sitting, and kneeling, vertical distance from the vertex to tragus, 

 mouth, and chin, length and breadth of head, length and breadth of nose, 

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

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

 with each eye and sense ef colour, and in males the maximum and mini- 

 mum circumference of the chest during inspiration and expiration respec- 



