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and learn to measure the human body with celerity and pre- 
cision, and to record the results with certainty. Of course, the 
collating these results would be done after their return home 
by others. The proper professors would afterwards determine 
the conclusion estabhshed by this aggregation of facts. 
So important has this science of Anthropometry been con- 
sidered in Europe that one of the most studious, learned and 
enthusiastic professors of Anthropology in the world — he who 
probably stood nearest its head — Paul Broca, devoted himself 
principally to the study and practice of Anthropometry ; he 
developed the system which bears his name, and his fame 
stands principally upon his services in 'this branch. The 
Societe d'Anthropologie at Paris endorsed his system, pub- 
lished his instructions as its own, and now the world has almost 
entirely adopted it as the basis of Anthropometry. The 
necessity of uniformity is so apparent that each country, one 
after the other, has finally adopted the metric system of 
measurements, England, I believe the last. 
This Societe established, many years ago, a permanent 
course of lectures upon this subject; one each week during the 
scholastic year. Broca was the lecturer during his lifetime. 
This course is still continued and is now in the hands of Broca's 
successor. Dr. Manouvrier. Anthropometry is thus assigned 
a place equal in dignity with any other of the branches of the 
science. 
Dr. Paul Topinard is now devoting himself to a work with 
a duration of many years, of making a chart of all France 
according to the color of the hair and eyes of the inhabitants. 
Mr. Francis Galton of London, has been engaged for years upon 
the work of " Heriditary Stature." He established an Anthro- 
pometric Laboratory at the Health Exhibition in London, 1883, 
where each individual could be measured, weighed and tested in 
all his parts, the record being furnished him andaduplicate being 
kept for scientific use, all for 3d. 10,000 people were measured. 
This system has been continued during subsequent exhibitions 
— the Fisheries, Colonies, Inventories, &c., and the South 
Kensington Museum has adopted it permanently. Mr. Galton 
reports that demands have been made from many places 
throughout the world for lots of machinery. I listened with 
much satisfaction to his address on this subject as President of 
the Anthropological Section of the British Association for the 
Advancement of Science at Aberdeen in 1885. He then 
stated the problem which he sought to elucidate ; given a 
group of men, or a single man of any certain and known 
