A Manual of Anthropometry: Or, a Guide to the Physical Examination and Measurement of the Human Body: Containing a Systematic Table of Measurements, and Anthropometrical Chart or Register, and Instructions for Making Measurements on a Uniform Plan
A Manual of Anthropometry: Or, a Guide to the Physical Examination and Measurement of the Human Body: Containing a Systematic Table of Measurements, and Anthropometrical Chart or Register, and Instructions for Making Measurements on a Uniform Plan
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ...fessor Leone Levi, Dr. F. A. Mahomed, Mr. J. E. Price, Lieut.-General Pirr-EiVERS, Sir Rawson W. Eawson, and Mr. C. Egberts. Associates, Dr. T. G. Balfour, Dr. J. H. Gladstone, Inspector-General Lawson, Dr. W. Ogle.' Drawn up by Mr. C. Egberts and Sir Eawson W. Eawson. plates IV.--X. 1. The Committee, originally ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ...fessor Leone Levi, Dr. F. A. Mahomed, Mr. J. E. Price, Lieut.-General Pirr-EiVERS, Sir Rawson W. Eawson, and Mr. C. Egberts. Associates, Dr. T. G. Balfour, Dr. J. H. Gladstone, Inspector-General Lawson, Dr. W. Ogle.' Drawn up by Mr. C. Egberts and Sir Eawson W. Eawson. plates IV.--X. 1. The Committee, originally appointed in 1875, and aided by successive grants, of which it has expended 2801., has made a Report in each of the five years 1878 to 1882, and now submits its final Report. 2. Not that the work open to the Committee is exhausted, although it has to a great extent supplied what was pointed out in its Reports of 1881 and 1882 as chiefly wanting, or that its conclusions are to its own mind complete and satisfactory. But it would require more time and larger funds than are at the disposal of the Committee to prosecute its inquiries, even with the materials now in its possession, to the end which it has had in view; and the Committee is of opinion that the most useful course will be to bring before the Association the results of its past labours, indicating at the same time the conclusions which it considers to be sufficiently established by the facts ascertained, and the deficiencies, both of data and methods, which remain to be supplemented, either by individual exertion, or by the reappointment of a similar Committee at some future period undf r the auspices of the Association. 3. In order to furnish a complete review of the information obtained, it will be necessary to refer to tables and data contained in previous reports. A list of these Reports is furnished in a note.2 Objects and Operations of the Committee. 4. The Committee was appointed for the purpose of collecting obser- vations on the systematic examination of the height, weight, and ...
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Very good. An Ex-Library Paperback in plastic sleeve, officially withdrawn, with usual library stamps and markings. A very good, clean copy. Ready for immediate despatch from UK. 29A*
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Ex-Library. Hardcover with gilt stamped green cloth boards, 1878, octavo, 118pp., illustrated in b&w + some fold out charts. Book ex-library with plates, stamps, numbers, etc.; otherwise rubbing soil and edgewear to boards, spine darkened, binding tender, small closed tear to fold out chart at frontispiece. No DJ, but now in archival mylar wrap.
