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34. Contour of Band .—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 out¬ 
wards from the contour line at the ends of the styloid pro¬ 
cesses of the bones of the forearm, and opposite the middle 
or highest points of the metacarpo-phalangeal enlargements, 
tnat 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 anthropometer box which will also serve as a 
table in tracing the hand—the leg being perpendicular to it. 
The pencil is held vertically, 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 simi¬ 
larly marked, and finally round the heel to the point where 
it was begun. The meta-arso-phalangeal joint of the great 
and little toes should also be marked opposite the middle of 
the enlargements of these joints. 
Further observations may be 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 
