FIRST RESULTS FROM THE OXFORD 
ANTHROPOMETRIC LABORATORY. 
[A paper read before the British Association {Section D) at Sheffield, 1910.] 
By E. SCHUSTER, D.Sc. 
This Laboratory was instituted in the Department of Comparative Anatomy 
in January 1908 by Professor G. C. Bourne. Its objects are defined in its circulars 
as follows : 
(1) To obtain a statistical survey of the physical development of under- 
graduates, which would in itself have a permanent value as a record which 
might be compared with similar records obtained in other places and possibly in 
future ages. 
(2) To ascertain whether any degree of interconnection or correlation exists 
between mental and physical characters. 
(3) To ascertain what bodily changes or development take place during a 
man's residence in Oxford as an undergraduate, and whether such changes depend 
at all on what games he plays, what school he reads for, and so on. 
(4) To obtain data by which exact measures can be made of the resemblance 
between brothers and between first cousins. 
As will be shown some progress has already beeti made with regard to 
Nos. 1 and 3, but in the present paper no attempt will be made to deal with 
Nos. 2 and 4. 
In order to attain the objects here detailed it was proposed that each under- 
graduate should be measured twice, once near the beginning and once near the 
end of his career. The number of men who have actually been measured twice is 
at present only 89 so that the changes in individuals cannot be satisfactorily dealt 
with, but the material has been used in this way: — it has been divided into groups 
according to the age of the subject at the time of measurement, and all those 
measured twice are included twice, once in the group corresponding to their age 
at first measurement and once in the group corresponding to their age at second 
