Report of the committee (being the final report on anthropometric method).Royal Anthropological Institute, 1909 - 57 pages |
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A. C. Haddon acromial point acromion acuity ANATOMICAL Anthropometric Committee arms Aston & Mander auricle Beddoe Beddoe's body of sternum bones breadth breadth.-The brown Calliper Measurements camera chest measurements circumference contact measurement Contents of Category cranium Cunningham dimensions distance ear-holes elbow-joint end of femur end of tibia environment external eye colours factors finger forearm front glabella glasses grey hair colours head of fibula Height iliac crest individual inner side internal malleolus large number length Lovibond lower end lower jaw margin of orbit maximum diameter mental characters metre mid-line middle line Nasal nasion nose noted observations obtained ophryon outer margin person photographed plane plate position Psychological pure blue record Report scale schedule schemes of classification set square sitter standard colours sternum styloid process Sub-Committee subnasal point superior extremity taken tape tragus trochanter ulna upper edge vertical Virchow Virchow's scheme W. H. R. Rivers
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Page 49 - At least twelve portraits of the left side of the face of as many different adults of the same sex. These must show in each case the exact profile, and the hair should be so arranged as fully to show the ear. All the persons should occupy in turn the same chair (with movable blocks on the seat, to raise the sitters' heads to a uniform height), the camera being fixed throughout in the same place.
Page 53 - In regulating the height of the head it is tedious and clumsy to arrange the proper blocks on the seat by trial. The simpler plan is to make the sitter first take his place on a separate seat with its back to the •wall, having previously marked on the wall, at heights corresponding to those of the various heights of head, the numbers of the blocks that should be used in each case. The appropriate number for the sitter is noted, and the proper blocks are placed on the chair with the assurance that...
Page 11 - ... upper edge of the superior extremity of the tibia, or inner of the two bones forming the skeleton of the leg. 10. Height of the tip of the internal malleolus of the tibia. 11. Height of the supra-sternal notch.
Page 44 - The words in popular usage by which mental characters are described are in many cases of a negative character. In the following list such words have been avoided and positive characters only are named ; eg, laziness does not appear, because a high degree of laziness is the same character as a low degree of industriousness, and may be expressed by putting the letter E after the corresponding number on the card. Many of the words in popular usage...
Page 12 - ... If the finger be passed from the supra-sternal notch downwards over the front of the sternum or breast-bone it soon meets a projecting ridge, crossing the bone transversely. This gives the level of the second costal cartilage, and, taking it as the starting-point, the fourth ^ngt.a.1 nn.rt.i1a.fre, where it joins the sternum, can easily be determined.
Page 8 - ... of the glabella to the most distant point in the middle line on the back of the head, known as the occipital point. The observer stands on the left side of the person being measured and the fixed point of the callipers is first applied to the glabella and held there by the fingers of the left hand, while the other point is moved over the mid-line of the back of the head (occiput). Care must be taken to observe that the fixed point has not moved off the glabella during the measurement, and that...
Page 11 - E. TRUNK AND LIMBS. Measurements from the Ground. The subject is to be measured in the erect attitude, with his eyes directed to the horizon, his heels firmly planted, and the balls of the toes in contact with the ground. It is absolutely necessary that the subject should be symmetrically placed so that the mesial plane of the body is in every respect vertical. The majority of the measurements can best be taken by means of the Anthropometric Wall-meter, seeing that this ensures a ready means of securing...
Page 11 - Uiac crests. — This will give approximately the maximum diameter between iliac crests. 20. Maximum diameter between the two great trochanters of the thigh bones. 21. External conjugate diameter of the pelvis. — From a point behind midway between the posterior superior iliac spines to the upper and fore part of the pubic symphysis in front. Measurements of Chest. Circumference (taken with tape). Direct the person being measured to hold the arms straight up over the head. Pass the tape horizontally...
Page 53 - They should occupy a different chair, the place of camera being changed in accordance. Time will be greatly saved if all the side-faces are taken first, and then all the full faces ; unless, indeed, there happen to be two operators, each with his own camera, ready to take the same persons in turn.
Page 46 - Initiative (expressed, eg, in tendency to assume leadership in games, in class, <fec.). 29. Masterfulness — the tendency to impose one's own will and opinions upon others. 30. Suggestibility — readiness with which opinions and beliefs are impressed by the expressions of other persons. 31. Competitive or emulative spirit. 32. Sense of ludicrous. 33. Esthetic feeling. 34. Energy (ie, capacity for doing work without exhaustion) : (a) Bodily work ; (b) Mental work. ENVIRONMENT. INTRODUCTION. The...