332 J. B. Davis on Measurements of the Human Races. 
the individual and his strength, by means of the dynamonet, 
they made from 25 to 28 different measurements, chiefly of the 
head, and of other parts of the body and limbs. But Ds 
Scherzer and Schwarz have striven, by a more complex and com- 
Schwarz; by which, he thought, we may at length arrive ata 
safer result in distinguishing and determining human races that 
by any other means. ” 
After recording the age, weight, height, strength, color of th | 
hair and eyes, and number of the pulsations of the radial artery, — 
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head, the trunk, and the extremities ; and of these they take no 
less than 70 different dimensions in all, by means of differen 
struments. 
Their external measurements of the head are the most A 
plete that have ever been employed. They embrace the faces 
tremities to 21, per , 
When the frigate “ Novara” reached Sydney, these gett 23 
‘printed an account of their system of measurements, ere 
e, which is preceded bY? 
number of in genious observations. In these, they dwell pied 
the ease with which travellers intuitively discriminate = ‘a. 
ent nations and tribes of mankind; and yet the difficulty 
some selected individuals-and cases to carry out this rates | 
especially when the eye is deceived by a substitution of Oh) 
