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SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 59 



higher than the general average. The pulse-respiration ratio, how- 

 ever, is relatively small in the " strongest," amounting to only 3.97 

 (in the weakest = 4.07). This condition of subaverage pulse-rate 

 with above-average respiration-rate in the Kharga " strongest " 

 group is not understood. As a great many individual elements enter 

 into every expression of these series and as the latter are not large 

 enough to submerge the effects of all such conditions, the discrep- 

 ancy may be accidental. It is regrettable that no detailed extensive 

 data of similar nature exist as yet on the whites, the subject being 

 far from exhausted in that race alone. 



TEMPERATURE 



The temperature of the body was taken in every case with verified 

 thermometers, under the tongue, with the subject sitting, and with 

 the instrument in place for at least five minutes. All the tests were 

 made between 9 A. M. and 5 P. M. and were about equally dis- 

 tributed over the intervening hours. The results are as follows : 



KHARGA OASIS, MEN: TEMPERATURE 



Number of observations : 95. 



Average: 98.6 F. (1st series of 47: 98.7 ° ; 2d series of 48 



Median: 98.7 . Mode: 2 groups, 98.5 , 98.9 . 



Minimum: 96.2 . Maximum: 99.9 . 



Table of frequencies : 



•5°.) 























ON 





On 



O 



On 









VO 



"Sf 



1^ 



Tf" 



00 



Tf 





On 



K. 



On 



00* 



On 



On 











o\ 



0* 



On 







On 



<N 



LO 



1 



LT) 







10 







O 



\o 



r^ 



t^ 



00 



00 



ON 



On 



On 



On 



On 



ON 



On 



On 



a 



Number of cases. 

 Per cent 



J 



2 



4 



12 



14 



29 



25 



1.1 



2.1 



4.2 



12.6 



14.7 



30.5 



26.3 



8.4 



The average temperature in the European amounts to about 98.9 

 F. (37.2 C.) ; the male Indians have given the writer averages, 

 according to tribes, varying from 98.1 to 98.8; the Kharga males 

 show 98.6 °. 



In the whites each io° F. temperature correspond, on the average, 

 to 7.28 pulse-beats and 1.82 respirations; in the Indians, to 6.40 

 pulse-beats and 1.78 respirations; and in the Kharga natives to 7.71 

 pulse-beats and 1.87 respirations. These are differences well beyond 

 the limits of the probable error, and hence are of significance, though 

 their exact explanation can hardly as yet be attempted. The tempera- 

 ture of the Oasis men is, plainly, low in relation to both pulse and 



