. Annals of hygiene. tions and athletic clubs, the GermanTurner Vereins and the American TurnerBund; but if intelligently directed rhyth-mically executed physical exercise is re-quired in every college, and properlyarranged places and apparatus for calis-thenics and gymnastics are in everyschool house, then the teachers and schol-ars can improve their physical conditionsand have systematic means for a more Exhibition in London, in 1884, there werehundreds of persons waiting for a chanceat the entrance of the AnthropometricLaboratory, to be admitted and examined. The laboratory was arranged by
. Annals of hygiene. tions and athletic clubs, the GermanTurner Vereins and the American TurnerBund; but if intelligently directed rhyth-mically executed physical exercise is re-quired in every college, and properlyarranged places and apparatus for calis-thenics and gymnastics are in everyschool house, then the teachers and schol-ars can improve their physical conditionsand have systematic means for a more Exhibition in London, in 1884, there werehundreds of persons waiting for a chanceat the entrance of the AnthropometricLaboratory, to be admitted and examined. The laboratory was arranged by Fran-cis Galton, F. R. S.; he had the followingapparatus: 1. For eyesight: (a) its keenness ; (£)the color sense; (c) judgment of the eyein estimating lengtli and squareness. TEE ANNALS OF EYOIENE. 239 2. Hearing: (a) its keenness ; (5) high-est audible note. 3. Touch (exhibition of various instru-ments). 4. Breathing capacity; his spirometerwas used. 5. Strength: (a) of pull; (b) of squeezewith right and with left
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