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This apparatus was obtained for the Museum and arranged 
by Dr Joseph Jastrow, Professor of Psychology in the University 
of Wisconsin. ^ 
There are also in the same room, apparatus for illustrating 
the law governing the distribution of individuals in a binominal 
curve, and for the drawing of the outlines of the various parts of 
the skeleton. 
In the smaller room adjoining are apparatus for taking the 
measurements of the body. Among the instruments here used 
are an adjustable table for measuring the stature, and a chain con- 
structed on a similar principle to study the variations in the length 
of the trunk, at different angles of incline to the perpendicular. 
A notice hung in the middle panel, on the outside of the labora- 
tory wall, will indicate the hours during which the laboratory will 
be open. 
On the south gallery are situated cases containing the collec- 
tions of crania, skeletons, etc. 
Case 1. (East End of Gallery). Crania illustrating Sys- 
tematic Craniology. The skulls illustrate a number of types and 
the most frequent variations, such as the proportions and forms of 
the head and of the face; forms of sutures; centers of ossification; 
and artificial and natural deformations. The artificial deforma- 
tions of the skull are practiced in many places throughout the 
world, and may be divided generally into two classes: The one, 
lengthening the skull; the other, increasing its height and width. 
The deformations are generally produced by bandages so dis- 
posed around the head of the infant as to produce the required 
modification of form. 
Case 2 — Systematic Craniology and Skulls from Europe 
and Africa; in the order named. 
Cases 3 and 4 — Skulls from Oceanica. Attention is 
specially called to the ornamented skulls from New Guinea. 
Case 5.— Skulls from Oceanica, and of the Eskimo from the 
northern coast of America and from Greenland. 
Panel 1.— (Wall). Charts illustrating the growth and pro- 
portions of the body of the American Indians. 
