44 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, [N.S., XVI. 
astonishment, and despair. But there is another point usually 
ignored. namely that the accuracy of anthropometry depends 
t keep still. 
Further, as it has been accepted by anthropologists that 
all measurements of the trunk and limbs must be taken with 
Fria. b, 
the subject in “‘ the erect attitude, ’’ we must remember that the 
erect attitude does not mean the same thing in all individuals, 
and that if we calculate the proportionate length of a man’s 
thigh-bone above the ground as he stands upright, and that of 
the top of his head as he stands in the same position, we do 
not get the same proportion in all individuals. Anatomically 
considered, the stature of a round-shouldered man is not the 
same as that of a man who has been regularly drilled and 
holds himself with square shoulders (cf. figs. 1 and 2, pl. II). 
Some of the figures published in Professor Rudolph Martin’ s 
great text-book of physical anthropology,! the most compre- 
! Lehrbuch der Anthropologie. Jena, 1914. 
