646 General Notes. [June, 
were upon chronology ; 4559 upon heraldry and genealogy; 214 
upon the history of American Indians; 739 upon oriental litera- 
ture; 863 upon manners and customs ; 717 upon Orientalia; 4404 
upon philology and linguistics. Doubtless many other volumes 
were drawn for anthropological research, for instance, oa 
war, biology, domestic economy, ethics, geography, history, 
travels, etc. 
THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION ANTHROPOMETRIC CoMMITTEE—Ia 
1875 the British Association appointed a committee on anthro- 
pometry, of which Dr. William Far was chairman until 1878. The 
reports of the committee are as follows: 1878, 5 p, Annual 
182-6; 1879, 35 p., tid. 175—209 ; 1880, 41 p., wid. 120-159; 
1881, 48 p., bid. 225-272; 1882, 3 p., ibid. 278-280; 1883, fual 
report, 54 p., separate. The points to which inquiries were - 
dressed are: 1. Stature; 2, Weight; 3. Chest-girth; 4. Color y 
eyes; 5. Color of hair; 6. Breathing capacity; 7. Str : 
arm; & Sight; 9. Span of arms; 10. Size and shape of head; 
11. Lower limbs; 12. Measures of other parts of the Z 
These measures were applied to the different elements of i 
mixed population of Great Britain and compared with se 
other parts of the world: The results are partly shown @ 
following table: b 
Race or Nationality. Authority. Meers, P 
Samoa 1.85 La Perouse 
Tahiti & Pitcairn 1.782 Garnot, Beechey 
: Marquesas 1.76 
Polynesian 1 New Zealand 1.755 Various 
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SRS 
Polynesians ; 
andwi 1.731 Lesson, Rollin na S 
English professional class Anthrop. Com. 90 
A 1.778 usters } 1.754 9 
Patagonians { 1.730 D’Orbigny a S 
Angamis (Naga hills) Woodthorp 1.752 x 
Negroes (Congo) Topinard 1.746 ssr 
Scotch Anthrop. Com, at Se 
Amakosa Kaffirs Sir A. Smith 1.735 s 
Iroquois Indians oul 17277 STS 
Todas (Nilghiries) Marshall 1.727 55 
egroes (Calabar) Topinard 1726 58 
. A. Indi xter 1.725 5 
h Anthrop. Com 19 : 
S. Whites er 1719 : 
English Anthrop. Com. oe | 
Norwegians 1.727 T pr sm 
“48 immigrants U. S. 1.717 Baxter 1.707 sts , 
Zulus poa 75 gpa 
English laborers Anthrop, 1.703 se 
Canadians, U. S., French immigrants axter 1.705 gép 
Tajiks of Feyhana & Samarkand Ujfalvy Beddoe 1.70 se 
Swedes, U. S., immigrants Baxter "L7 5 
Chippeway Indians Oliver 1.699 Linde 
Kabyles i Com. 1.695 566 
elsh oe is oo 5 
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awa 5 U.S. immigrants Ba 163° 
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