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portant are circumference of:—20, neck; 21, waist; 22, thigh, 
maximum; 23, calf, ditto ; 24, arm, ditto; 25, forearm, ditto, 
&c. 26. Fathom, or span, of outstretched arms. 27. Span of 
thumb and midfinger. 28. Length of thumb, from second joint 
to tip. 29. Length of foot. 
All these gotten with measuring-tape, or, in 26 to 29, with 
graduated measure or callipers. 
Head :—30 . Greatest circumference from the glabella, or 
eminence above root of nose. 31 . Arc from notch at root of 
nose to inion (occipital tuber, or small round eminence felt by 
passing finger up from nape of neck in mesial line). 32. Arc 
from tragus (immediately opposite and in front of meatus audi- 
torius) to tragus, over top of head. 33. Arc from tragus to 
tragus, over superciliary ridges and glabella, or, more accurately, 
immediately above them. 
The above taken with measuring-tape; the following with 
index-callipers. 30,31,32 impracticable where the hair is thick 
and coarse. 
34 . Greatest length from glabella backwards. 35. Ditto 
from the smooth spot immediately above glabella. 36. Length 
from glabella to inion (sometimes identical with 34, but always 
important). 37 . Greatest breadth (fix the point tentatively, 
and note whether much above or behind the ear). 38. Greatest 
breadth of zygomata (posterior arches of cheek-bones). 39. 
Breadth from tragus to tragus (represents nearly the biauricular 
breadth). 40. Least frontal breadth (between frontal crests, 
just above external orbital epiphyses, i.e. just above external 
angle of eyebrow). 
41. Length of face (root of nose to lower border of chin). 
42. Greatest length of head from chin upwards and back¬ 
wards. 
43. The height of head from meatus auditorius to vertex, 
gotten already by subtraction of measurement 2 from 1. 
44 . Facial angle, important, gotten easily with Broca’s 
goniometer, or calculated from the following data obtained 
with callipers. [39. Diameter from tragus to tragus.] 45. 
Distance from tragus to junction of nose and upper lip in 
middle line. 46. Ditto from tragus to smooth spot imme¬ 
diately above glabella. 47. Ditto from said spot to junction 
of nose and lip. 
Skeletons and skulls &c.—These should, if possible, be brought 
to England, where they can be examined and measured by ex¬ 
perts. Next to the cranium the pelvis, and next to it the 
humerus and tibia, are generally most interesting. With crania 
