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Nowadays, he has declared, girls are no longer pretty—they are beautiful; and as Mr. Galton, the anthropometrical expert, himself admits, they, even more than the rest of mankind, have certainly grown taller.

From The History of "Punch" by Spielmann, M. H. (Marion Harry)

Prognathism is marked but variable according to the testimony of Montano, who took the anthropometrical measurements of many crania which he obtained from caves in northeastern Mindan�o.

From The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir by Garvan, John M.

While the barter was going on, the author of this narrative 617occupied himself with making some anthropometrical measurements, and at the same time noting down a few cursory remarks respecting these interesting people.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von

The new method materially adds to the efficacy of the anthropometrical system of identification, with which the name of Bertillon, the inventor of the "thumb-prints" method, is inseparably connected.

From The Strand Magazine, Volume XXVII, Issue 160, April, 1904 by Various

Three days later the anthropometrical department of the Prefecture returned the proofs exhibited to them, saying that they were not in the records.

From Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels by France, Anatole