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The following are the dimensions of the principal pai'ts of the 



^^«^y-— Inches. 



Circumference of the head (longest diameter), - - » 10 



Ditto ditto (shortest diameter), - - - - - -9.1 



Ditto of the chest, - - - - - - 9 



Ditto of the body, - - - - . - 8 



Ditto of the thigh, midway between the knee and the hip-joint, 2.6 

 Ditto of the fore-arm, midway between the wrist and elbow, - \.^ 



I much regret the weight and dimensions of the child were not 

 taken when it was first born, for the mother informs me it has 

 grown considerably since that time. At first it would not take 

 to the breast, but it now sucks very well. The bones of the 

 head are rather loose, and the anterior and posterior fontanels 

 are large in proportion to the size of the head. — Transactions 

 of the Medical and Physical Society of Calcutta, vol. i. 



MENSURATION. 



29- Tables for converting Scotch Land Measure into Impe- 

 rial Land Measure^ and for finding the Rent, Produce, or Va- 

 lue of an English Acre, having given that of a Scots Acre *. — 

 Before the act for ascertaining and establishing uniformity of 

 weights and measures was passed, there was no certain rule for 

 determining the proportion of the Scots to the English acre, on 

 account of the want of agreement among surveyors as to the 

 exact length of the Scotch ell. Now, however, the length of 

 the ell has been ascertained by a careful and scientific measure- 

 ment, and the result as well as the proportion of the Scots to 

 the English acre declared by a Jury appointed by the Sheriff- 

 depute of the county of Edinburgh. Their verdict, which is 

 dated 4th February 1826, finds, that the standard Scots ell, ^t 

 the temperature of 62° of Fahrenheit, contains 37.0598 Impe- 

 rial standard inches ; and, consequently, that the Scots chain 

 contains 74.1196 Imperial standard feet, and that the English 

 or Imperial acre has to the Scots acre the proportion of 1 to 

 1.26118345. From these data, the two following concise Tables 

 have been constructed. The first serves to convert any number 

 of Scots acres, roods, falls, and ells, into Imperial acres and the 

 decimal fraction of an acre ; and by the second, having given 



* Mr Elgen of Aberdeen sent us for insertion in the Journal interesting 

 [ Tables of the same general nature with those here given. These Tables were 

 examined by an eminent mathematician, who constructed those now publish- 

 ed, which he considers more convenient. 



