- Subject
- Anthropometrics
- 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.
- Primary inscriptions
- "HAWKSLEY London S.E.J"
- Object type
- Anthropometric apparatus
- Dimensions
- Height: 37mm Width: 91mm Depth: 56mm Weight: 102g
- Inventory No
- 14669
- Accession Number
- 1937-19
Description
Manufactured by Hawksley, Oxford Street, London. Undated. Copper alloy adjustable instrument comprising a dish-like disc with a short tube protruding from the base, attached to the side of the disc is a copper alloy fitting with two tightening screws at the end, at the other end is a metal bar with a disc attached which folds into the concave side of the dish.
