Anthropometry

In the development of the system it was soon found that diversity of method was very prejudicial to progress, which led to attempts at regulation of the methods and instruments by schools, by national, and finally by international agreements. Unfortunately, the earlier agreements conflicted, in consequence of which a great deal of work was lost. Up to the Franco-Prussian war of 1870, the system of Broca or the French school was almost universal; after the war, however, the rapidly growing t...