- Item type
- Object
- Provenance
- Transferred from the Department of Human Anatomy, Oxford, in 1937. Acquired for Oxford University (by Professor Arthur Thomson) from Francis Galton in 1895. Originally from Galton's Anthropometric Laboratory, London.
- Physical material
- Wood
- Dimensions
- Height: 155mm Width: 685mm Depth: 51mm
- Inventory No
- 10944
- Accession Number
- 1937-19
Description
Sliding wooden scale for measuring arm length. The scale ranges from 1-23, graduated in inches. Unsigned, but probably by W. Groves, London, who made a number of the other wooden instruments for Galton's Anthropometric Laboratory.
