Anthropometric Measurements at Cambridge

Abstract

I QUITE agree with your correspondent “F. M. T.” that the head measurements are not sufficiently accurate to warrant their use as data for coming to any conclusion as to increased cranial capacity, much less as the foundation for the theories of Mr. Francis Galton. On a comparison of the head measurements of any one individual, they are found to be so variant that one is forced to conclude that the errors of observation are far greater than the maximum error which could exist without completely vitiating the trustworthines of the data. The following measurements of my head during the last two years are sufficient to render this obvious—