29 
34- Contour of Hand. —The hand is to be placed flat on a 
table, with the axes of the forearm and hand in line while 
the tracing is made. A mark should be made outwards from 
the contour line at the ends of the styloid processes of the 
bones of the forearm, and opposite the middle or highest 
points of the metacarpo-phalangeal enlargements, that is at 
the knuckles, of the forefinger and little finger, to indicate 
their position. 
35. Contour of Foot .—The foot is placed on a flat surface— 
the lid of the antbropometer box, which will also serve as a 
table in tracing the hand—the leg being perpendicular to it. 
It is best taken with a pencil split longitudinally so that the 
lead is appearing throughout its length. The flat surface of 
the pencil is held vertically next the foot, and the tracing 
begun opposite the lowest point of the internal malleolus, 
which should be indicated by an outward movement of the 
pencil ; the tracing is brought round the front of the foot to 
the lowest point of the external malleolus, which should be 
similarly marked, and finally round the heel to the point 
where it was begun. The metatarso-phalangeal joint of the 
great and little toes should also be marked opposite the 
middle of the enlargements of these joints. 
Further observations maybe made by the traveller regard¬ 
ing any particular feature or peculiarity he may notice in 
the subject. Many of the peculiarities he will meet with are 
noticed in the Sections on Descriptive Characters, Abnor¬ 
malities or Deformations. 
Special Measurements. 
(a.) Length of the body from the seventh cervical spine to 
the lower end of coccyx .—In making this measurement the 
subject stands with the body quite erect. The instrument is 
held vertically, and its arms adjusted till they touch the 
points of measurement on the body. 
(< b.) Bi-acromial Breadth , measure between the anterior and 
external angle of each acromion. 
(c.) Bi-iliac Crest Breadth. —The maximum transverse 
