REPORT 
OF ANTHROPOMETRICAL SECTION. 
Ss 
= SHE measurements for which the averages are 
SS given below were taken last term -under the 
_ direction of the Natural History Society. 
All boarders (with two exceptions) in both 
i Senior Departments were measured. It is intended 
z 4:4 to measure Day Boys at some future time. 
A comparison of our averages with the averages obtained by the 
Anthropometric Committee of the British Association, from about 
7,000 measurements of Public School boys, is exhibited in Table I. 
The British Association Averages—which may be called the 
General Averages ”—are published in Robert's Manual of Anthro- 
pometry, a copy of which book, the author, who is an O.C., has kindly 
presented to the Natural History Society. 
TABLE. ¥: 
Showing the average measurements, for half-yearly intervals, of 244 
i boarders. 
The colums headed A shew the excess above, (+ ), or the defect 
below, (—), the corresponding average for about 7,000 measurements 
of Public School boys, as determined by the Anthropometric Com- 
mittee of the British Association. 
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