208 On Criminal Anthropometry 
The result of these operations is shown in the following table : 
TABLE 25. 
Shoiving the value of 's/A/Ii for 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 characters. 
7 
6 
5 
4 
3 
Head Length 
•86336 
Head Breadth 
•76167 
•78408 
Face Breadth 
•73330 
•73763 
•91541 
Finger 
•50534 
•50568 
•50607 
•50959 
•51403 
Cubit 
•41083 
•41083 
•41089 
•41452 
•47660 
Foot 
•54930 
•55016 
•55060 
•55671 
•58296 
Height 
•56240 
•56502 
•56504 
•57244 
The order in which the various characters should be taken is therefore : 1st, 
Cubit; 2nd, Finger; 3rd, Foot; 4th, Height; 5th, Face Breadth; 6th, Head 
Breadth ; 7th, Head Length, and is the same as that which is given by the first 
column, for n = 7. It is to be noted that the head measurements come last. 
This result conflicts with the practice at Scotland Yard, where, I understand, 
the cabinet is entered in the order Head Length, Head Breadth, Face Breadth, 
Finger, Cubit, Foot and Height, the head measurements being taken first. 
Should it be maintained that in fixing the order of the characters we should 
use s, and not , as the criterion, that is, that we should leave to the last the 
organ whose absolute variability is greatest, not the organ whose variability is 
least reduced, after selection of the other six, I have calculated the following table 
to show how this principle will work out : 
TABLE 26. 
Showing the value of s= a \^ A/R for 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 characters. 
7 
6 
5 
4 
3 
Head Length 
<T = 
•6046 
•5220 
•5244 
•5251 
•5289 
Head Breadth 
(r = 
5015 
•3819 
•3821 
•3823 
•3823 
•3935 
Face Breadth 
(T = 
•5060 
•.3711 
•3738 
•3741 
•3769 
•3804 
Finger 
(7 = 
5479 
•2769 
•2801 
•3543 
•5051 
•5178 
Cubit 
cr=l 
•9628 
•8064 
•9323 
Foot 
o- = l 
•1792 
•6478 
•6707 
•7478 
Height 
(r = 6 
•4540 
3-6297 
In the case of height the unit of record is |th inch = 3175 mm., for the other 
characters the unit is 1mm.; we therefore divide the 3'6297l of the table by 
