1886.) Amhropology, C05 
pose about 200 blind persons of both sexes were questioned at 
_ the institutions for the blind in Philadelphia and Baltimore, and it 
their dreams; while all whose eyesight was destroyed after the . 
seventh year had quite as vivid dream-visions as seeing people. 
their dreams, hearing plays the principal. part., When dreaming 
of home, for instance, they will hear. their father’s voice or their 
Sister singing, and perhaps will feel the familiar objects in the 
m and thus know they are at home. We, in such a case, 
would see it all. 
ANTHROPOLOGY .! 
ANTHROPOMETRY, says Francis Galton, is designed to define 
the individual or the race, and to show in what way and to what 
extent, he or it differs from the others. Measurements teach the 
individual to know his own powers at a given time. The second 
important object is to keep watch over the development during 
© period of growth, and to give timely warning if it proceeds 
‘Rot normally. 
© measurement of the head is designed to show how much 
and up to what age the brain continues to grow in bulk, espe- 
cially with a view to comparing .the educated with the unedu- 
“tated classes, | 
€ maximum length of the head is taken from the glabella, 
T the Smooth spot above it, by means of calipers with blunt 
“eeth like a comb. y 
„ “e maximum width is taken with the same instrument, be- 
tween the points farthest apart on the sides of the head. 
_ The maximum height is the length of a line perpendicular toa 
Plane Passing through the ear holes and along the lower and 
_ Suter edges of the orbits. 
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4.ustead of the tints of Broca and Chevreuil, Dr. Galton uses 
disks i ; 
gg the hair. The object is to secure standards that will not 
. A new instrument for measuring the squeeze of the hand ha = 
Edited by Prof. Oris T. Mason, National Museum, Washington, D. C. _ 
c €se instruments are constructed by the Scientific Instrument ; oe 
of glass for the color of the eyes, and spun glass of various 
