Anthropometry
the ment of the human body to discover its exact dimensions and the proportions of its parts for comparison with its dimensions at different periods, or in different races or classes. Cranial measurements have long been adopted by anthropologists as the basis of their classifications of races; but the conformation of the skull and the relation of its height to its breadth vary so much within the same tribe as not to be, of themselves, sufficient data on which to rest generalizations. rest generalizations. The French anthropologists depend much more on anthropometry than the English, and have adopted a form of ferent observations of a single individual.
English Anthropological Society dis tributed the average stature of British lows: Early British, 66.6 inches; Saxon, 67.2; Scandinavian, 68.3; Anglian, 68.7.
Similar detailed anthropometric measurements will be seen in the special anthropological journals, French, English, and German, and in the more scientific of recent books of travel. The French police methods for the indentification of criminals, carefully recording for future_use nals, carefully recording for future use TILLON SYSTEM.
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