A laboratory manual of anthropometry / by Harris H. Wilder.

  • Harris Hawthorne Wilder
Date:
[1920]
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    fied form. It consists primarily of the rules for measurements given in the two prescriptions of 1906 and 1912, and adds for the convenience of the student certain of the most useful indices. An enumeration of instruments, as employed in various places, is given in the introduction, together with a much simplified account of the most generally used mathematical methods employed in tabulating and expressing the results of measurements, for the especial benefit of that large class of students who find their chief interest in the morphological relations of the subjects treated, but whose mathematical ability is not great, and who are not able readily to follow the more abstruse methods and expositions of them made use of by biometricians. The student is introduced to the bibliography of the subject by a series of footnotes, which are found under each heading, and are intended to guide him to certain of the most important papers, generally the ones especial^ followed in this book. From the bibliographies given here, in their turn, a more complete knowledge of the literature may be obtained. The main work is followed by two appendices, the one (A) giving the actual measurements of 93 skulls and skull fragments of Indians from Southern New England, the other (B) the bodily proportions of 100 Smith College Students, both sets of measurements the result of work carried out in the Smith College Anthropological Laboratory by gradu- ate students. These may prove useful as samples of the kind of work treated in this manual, and will be of interest to use in comparison with the results of the practical reader. Harris Hawthorne Wilder, Ph. D. Smith College Anthropological Laboratory, Northampton, Mass.
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