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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PHYSICAL ANTHRO¬ 
POLOGY OF THE MALAY PENINSULA 
By NELSON ANNANDALE, B.A. 
RESEARCH STUDENT IN ANTHROPOLOGY AT THE L’NlVEfttlTY OF EDINBURGH 
AND 
HERBERT C ROBINSON 
honorary research assistant to the professor of natural history, university college, Liverpool 
SECTION I 
Observations on the Living Person 
A S, unfortunately, there appears to be no system of nomenclature which 
is universally accepted by anthropographists, notwithstanding the 
‘Frankfurt Agreement/ it will be necessary for us to explain in some 
detail what we mean by certain terms that we have adopted in the succeeding 
tables, and it will be well, at the same time, to state the methods by which 
the results therein embodied were obtained. 
Instruments. With the exception of the length and breadth of the head 
and the ‘height* and breadth of the nose, which were obtained by means of 
instruments manufactured by Mathieu, of Paris, all measurements were taken 
with Dr. Garson’s ‘ Traveller’s Anthropometer,’ as supplied by Messrs. 
Aston & Mander. We are bound to say that, for field work in a tropical 
climate, this instrument was not found altogether satisfactory. The joints ot 
the measuring staff gave much trouble by swelling and warping, and the 
brazed parts not infrequently developed weaknesses particularly inconvenient 
in an uncivilized country. It seemed to us that strength had been unduly 
sacrificed to lightness, and the system by which the calliper arms were only 
supported by metal pins running on grooves cut in their substance, caused 
endless and quite unnecessary annoyance. For tape measurements, a 
Chesterman’s steel tape, graduated on one side in millimetres and on the 
other in inches, was employed. For use in humid climates we cannot too 
strongly urge the the necessity of nickel or silver plating on the tape, as rust 
both obscures the graduation and renders the metal extremely brittle. Even 
with plating we found that tapes were usually short-lived, and that it was 
necessary to have several duplicates in stock. The methods adopted in 
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