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300 1.m'ou r 1883. REPORT OF TILE ANT11110 'ODIETRIC COMMITTEE. 301, CONCLUSION. d7. Attention has been called to some of the principal points of interest in the data collected by the Committee, hilt; in many respects the tables have been left to speak for themselves ; and it is not improbable that a study of them will lead some persons to conclusions differing more or less front those given in this Report.l tiH. The original returns, which the Committee recommend may be placed in the charge of the Anthropological Institute for preservation and future examination, comprise many statistics which could not be introduced into this Report on account of the time and labour required for their analysis and tabulation. d9. The Committee believes that it has laid a substantial foundation for a further and more exhaustive study of the physical condition of a people by anthropometric methods, and that its action will prove it has been useful as an example to other scientific societies and to individuals in stimulating them, as well as directing them, in the methods of making stai,istical inquiries relative to social questions. The medical officers, managers, or superintendents of many colleges, schools, and charitable institutions have been induced to keep registers of the physical proportions of those under their charge, which will in a few years become valuable records, not only of the physical condition of the inmates of their institutions, but of the sanitary y conditions under which they have lived ; they - will :also be available for the further study of the subjects specially treated of in this Report. The Collective Investigation Committee of the British Medical Association propose to carry on the work of: this Committee in a direction which it is most needed, namely, b issuing tut album in which Y Y n persons may methodically record at frequent intervals their height, weight, and other physical qualities, together with points in their personal and medical history. The Committee hopes that this habit will be largely adopted and encouraged by the members of the British Association. 70. The Committee has to express its thanks to the numerous contributors to their store of facts, whose names and contributions have been published from time to time in their interim reports, and to numerous 'friends who, although not contributors themselves, have induced others ato give their assistance. ' The inquiries relative to tmeathin,q capoest!l were aba.ndoneI in 1879 on account ti,f the unsatisfactory nature of the retau•rrs received previous to tha,tyear. The apparatus were faulty. The statistics relating to rllrsinlht were dealt with in the Report for 1881, and the 'returns since received are not sufficient, to require a further discussion of the subject. Tie subject of culanr-h7-irrrlness was taken op by a Special Committee of the rOphthalmological Society after it had been inaugurated by this Corn initt,ce, and it, was given u}, on that account. The very interesting report of the Special Committee is published in the first volume of the Tracts. rf the Oplcthal. Sue. 1881. APPENVIX A. Specimen of the cards used by the committee for collecting observa-tions, and the instructions for filling them up. Che cards are of different colours for the two sexes, and one corner is cut off to make them face one way when arrangedd by hand. They can be dealt out like playing cards, and much time and trouble is saved in the analysis of their records. ANTHROPOMETRIC COMMITTEE OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION, 22 Albemarle Street, London (to which address this Card is to be returned after being filled). h>igl t is to be taken as without shoes, anthderreir/ht in ordinary indoor c ostunu. >~,an, of fries is the distance between tips of the middle lingers extended zontadly, measured across the back i horn tblartr o E ec should be Stated . ,t,, light, , b ble.ueback to the wall). .f ,1 as ~, gu. hL,e,,dark blue, light brown, grown, dark brown, recn, or black. t5,hu,r of Hair as %a.,y fair, fair, golden, red, red brown light brow„ brown, 1, hick brown, or black. town, dark Fin' chest-girth, hreathin,l rapacity, a ndstrrngtl, ealuatr-Lliorlrat-.rs, nd res-iht see paper of instructions. Je J , the lfnder Place of /firth state 1 arish and County; or, if abroad, thenameof the Counts . Under Occupation state r;nrk or profession. Y Ilarc should be stated as English, lpure English very pure 1.n„tish, Irish, pure Irish, very pure Irish, Scotch, pure Scotch, very pare Scotch, or mixed Scotch and Snglish, 1ce. Oril/in, as country folk, pore countryfolk, very pure co,uttryfolk, townfolk, -.urc townfolk, or cony pure townfolk, country birth, 1'. since boy, /.e. l FOR A SINGLE SET OF OBSERVATIONS. Place Name (or Initials) \go--years trtonths Height, without shot<,, inches& eight is r, - Span ofarms,imlres&ci;~hths \Vciglit,inordinart indoorcostu rte, lbs. Sl rennil, drawing power, 11),q. C;iest-girth, inches amt ci Mlle ISreatl!iu" ca1'city cub. i . , n. Colour of bye.._--- - Colour of flair Test dots di tinguiAted at, feet Colour-bliudne.ss Si ht ; Test-types No. 1, read at inches „ No.10, feet Place of B-irth Pace, DaIe tiex 188 Astigmatism ' Occupation Origin !titan marl _address of Ol,serrar