552 PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION G. 
From age 5} to 84 the sitting height is about 54-5 per 
cent. of the standing height; at age 16, it has decreased 
to 51-2 per cent. 
Comparing the growth of the boys in Sydney with the 
returns for America and England, quoted in the Annual 
Report of the United States Commissioner of Education 
for the year 1898, I find that the heights of the children 
of New South Wales and the United States very closely 
correspond. Indeed, for most of the years, as the follow- 
ing statement shows, the heights for boys of like age are 
practically identical. Compared with the English children, 
the local boys show a marked superiority over the whole 
period for which there are observations. The superiority 
in the early yearsis very striking ; at 54 years it is 34 inches; 
at 104 years it has been reduced to about three-quarters of 
an inch; and it remains from ? to | inch up to the 16th 
year, when the observations cease 
Boys’ Height in Inches. 
| New South Wales. England. United States. 
Age. , 
f Increase in |Anthropometric |Report of Com- 
Actual Height.) § months. Commission. | ™ssioners of 
: Education. 
Years. Inches. Inches. Inches. Inches. 
53 44°5 a 41°0 tek 
6 45-0 0°5 Bee 44°7 
4 45°5 0:5 44-0 axe 
ff 46°5 10) ise 46°0 
74 47°4 0:9 46:0 ade 
8 48-2 0°8 ee 47°8 
83 48°9 0°7 47°1 eee 
9 49°8 0'9 nee 49°7 
92 50°7 0:9 49°7 ee 
TOmest 51°6 0:9 ape +) inal 
103 52°5 0:9 51°8 see 
ll 53°6 eat ae 53°2 
lis 54°6 1:0 53°5 aa 
ie 55°6 Wo) Ax 5d" 1 
123 56°4 0°8 55:0 Fa, 
Us) y/o. 0°38 eats 56°8 
134 57°9 Onn | 56°9 Bo 
14 59-1 fied, ras 59:1 
144 60°6 1s} 59°3 ie 
1s 61:9 1S) wee 61°8 
153 | 63°] 12 62°2 ne 
16 64°3 [ape Ars 64°3 
163 65:1 0°8 64°3 ane 
