14 Francis Galton. - On the Anthropometric Laboratory accurate, and much more capable of bearing hard usage than the lever balances. Its sole disadvantage lies in the necessity of handling heavy weights during its use. Overcoats should be taken off, the weight required being that of ordinary indoor clothing. Most of the instruments in use at the laboratory are wholly or in large part of my own designing. Those that are not are the spirometer, the instruments for testing strength of pull and of squeeze, and the weighing machine. On the opposite page is a [italics]fac simile[end italics] of the Schedule which was retained at the Anthropometric Laboratory. The card that was presented to each person examined was a duplicate of all the entries in the Schedule, except those printed crosswise at the right hand side. [italics]Explanation of Plates XII and XIII. (For description, see both the Memoir and the Appendix to it.)[end italics] Fig. 1. Instrument for testing keenness of sight. " 1a. Diagram showing how each of the blocks appears to stand just free of the preceding one when they are viewed through the eye-hole. " 2. Part of the apparatus for testing colour-sense by various samples of coloured wools. The right hand portion is supposed to be taken off. " 3. Apparatus for testing the accuracy of the judgment of the eye, in dividing a rod into two, and into three equal parts. " 4. Apparatus for testing the judgment of the eye as regards squareness. The left hand portion of a flap that conceals graduations is supposed to be broken off. " 5. Apparatus for testing swiftness of blow or pull. " 5a. Shows the mechanism of a self-acting catch, which releases the string by which the rod is pulled just before the rod comes home. [end]