Anthropometric Investigation in the British Isles: Report of the Committee (being the Final Report on Anthropometric Method).

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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 52 - ... twelve female adults should be photographed. It will add much to the value of the portrait if these same persons have also been measured. The photographs should be mounted on cards, each card bearing the name of the district, and a letter or number to distinguish the individual portraits ; the cards to be secured together by a thread passing loosely through a hole in each of their upper left-hand corners. Three sorts of portrait are wanted, as follows...
Page 12 - The latter point can easily be determined on. the straightened arm by placing the finger in the depression on the back of the outer part of the elbow-joint and feeling for the joint-interval between the humerus and radius. The measurement is made down to this point and gives approximately the length of the humerus. 1 The reasons which have prompted the Committee to select the level of the junction of the fourth costal cartilage with the sternum for measuring the dimensions of the chest will be found...
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 7 - The axed point of the callipers is first applied to the glabella and kept there, while the other point is moved over 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 the callipers have not been deflected from...
Page 36 - This apparatus (fig. 30) may be obtained from Aston & Mander. The polished metal plate is placed on a stand or table about 4 feet in height. About six drops of ink should be squeezed from the tube along the centre of the plate at intervals, and then thoroughly rolled until an evenly coated film of ink is spread over the whole surface of the plate.
Page 52 - The risk of fading is minimised by avoiding gum or paste ; each print being secured by its corners to slits cut in the mount, as in a post-card album. But the only complete security is the use of a really ' permanent
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 Aiithropometric Wall-meter, seeing that this ensures a ready means of...
Page 50 - The focussing screen must be kept vertical, and the swing-back should on no account be used in focussing. . Otherwise distortion of the image is inevitable. Size and Scale. — The portraits should be on such a scale that the distance between the top of the head and the bottom of the chin shall in no case be less than 1J inch (30 mm.). Smaller portraits are of comparatively little value. For composite work greater uniformity of scale is required. The best results are obtained when the distances between...

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