54 A BIOMETRIC STUDY OF BASAL METABOLISM IN MAN. 



For comparison, we have the constants for the stature of 1,000 

 students 18 to 25 years of age, measured in the Harvard gymnasium 

 and published by Castle, 36 and for 25,878 American recruits calculated 

 by Pearson. 37 Turning to the English, we have Schuster's 38 values 

 for Oxford students aged 18 to 23 or more years, Pearson's 39 and 

 Macdonell's 40 constants for Cambridge undergraduates and for Mac- 

 donell's 41 Scottish students. Turning to data other than that for 

 students, Pearson 42 has given a series of constants drawn from his family 

 records and Pearson and Lee 43 have supplied those for first and second 

 generations of British families. 



TABLE 9. Statistical constants for stature in men and women in general. 



"While it is now known that, in England at least, certain classes of 

 criminals are differentiated from the general population, it is interesting 

 to compare the constants for 3000 non-habitual male criminals 44 meas- 

 ured at Scotland Yard and analyzed by Macdonell, 40 the constants for 

 3000 men studied by Goring 46 in his masterly treatment of the British 



36 Castle, Heredity and Eugenics, Cambridge, 1916, p. 61. 



37 Pearson, The Chances of Death, 1897, 1, p. 276. 

 88 Schuster, Biometrika, 1911, 8, p. 49. 



39 Pearson, Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond., 1899, 66, p. 26. 



40 Macdonell, Biometrika, 1901, 1, p. 191. 



41 Macdonell, Proc. Anat. and Anthrop. Soc. Univ. Aberdeen (fide K. Pearson, Biometrika, 



1911,8. p. 49). 



42 Pearson, The Chances of Death, 1897, 1, p. 294. 



43 Pearson and Lee, Biometrika, 1901, 2, p. 370. 



44 The majority of the prisoners were English and Welsh, many were Irish, and only a few 



Scotch. None were foreigners. All were over 21 years of age. 



45 Macdonell.Biometrika, 1901, 1, p. 191. 



40 Goring, The English Convict., Lond., 1913, pp. 178-179. 



