CARL SCHIØTZ. 



M.-N. Kl. 



Table 2a. 

 Bovs. HcipJit. 



13 - 



14 — 



Girls. Height. 



147.71 cm. 



I 701 



1727 

 1717 

 1413 

 1439 



126.83 



132.93 

 138.26 

 142.76 

 147-13 



Table 2 b. 

 Difference of height betiv. public schools and higher schools. 



Girls 



Nissen school I 133.98 cm. 



Public schools I 130.02 „ 



135-93 

 135-05 



143-55 

 140.37 



149-39 

 145.62 



156.12 

 I so. 60 



Difference | 3.96 cm. 2.88 



Average difference of height : — 3-86 cm. 



3.18 



3-77 



5.62 



the higher school material. Sufficient material can here only be provided 

 for the ages 13 and 14. 3; All the public schools. 4) The schools for 

 feeble-minded children (the decidedly psychically deficient). No com- 

 putation of probable errors has been done here. No detail studies of the 

 laws of growth were intended, only a collected survey of the age-period 

 10 — 14 years. The graphical representation is found on the curves fig. 3. 

 Especially when we compare with curve fig. 2 from the different country 

 districts and see how rather small the difference is there, it is at once 

 apparent how very widely the cliildrcii from the different social strata 

 differ from each otiier in regard to bodily height during these years. 

 We are, though, saying nothing about the eventuel difference, when these 

 individuals have grown up. The explanation of the average difference 



