- 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.
- Object type
- Anthropometric apparatus
- Dimensions
- Height: 21mm Width: 97mm Depth: 57mm Weight: 101g
- Inventory No
- 14670
- Accession Number
- 1937-19
Description
Manufactured by Hawksley, Oxford Street, London. Undated. Instrument comprising a dish-like disc attached to the side 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.
