[Anon], ‘A Morning with the Anthropometric Detectives: An Interview with Francis Galton, FRS’

The way to the Anthropometric Laboratory at South Kensington lies through a long blank gallery with worn-eaten, ink-stained floors. But just at present jaunty tables and depressed students hold the field, and it is necessary to traverse another gallery mostly given over to solitude and glass cases. The eyes are tested separately, as it often occurs that they differ considerably in efficiency without the person being aware of the fact. No optician should be without such an instrument. The most convenient primary basis is found to be not stature, but the length and breadth of the head, and that of the foot and middle finger. It would be too long a matter to go into the subdivisions and categories, but the system is at work in France, and it is claimed for it that it is eminently successful.