THEIR HEIGHT, FORM, AND STRENGTH. 93 



18 per cent., while in Gloucestershire and Denmark 

 it is 20, and in Sweden 26 per cent." 



97. In 1882-3 the Report of the Anthropometric 

 Committee says : " As to light hair and light eyes 

 the proportions per cent, are, Ireland, 47-4 ; 

 Scotland, 46-3 ; England, 40-1 ; Wales, 34-6 ; of 

 red hair the Welsh per-centage is 8-2 ; Scotch, 4-2 ; 

 English, 2-7; Irish, 2-5. The stature of Irish 

 Recruits is 5 ft. 8-04 ; the Scotch, 5 ft. 8-3 ; English, 

 5 ft, 7-71." It quotes the statistics of the United 

 States Army as giving the average stature of those 

 examined for admission into that army as follows: 

 " 3,476 Scots, 67-07 inches ; 30,557 Irish, 66-74 ; 

 16,196 English, 66-58; 54,944 Germans, 66-54; 

 1,104 Welsh, 66-42; 1,302 Swiss, 66-38; 3,343 

 French, 66-28." 



Here the Scots overtop the Irish, but perhaps 

 this might be accounted for by the relative numbers. 

 Again, the Scots surpass the Irish in stature in 

 Table I. of the Antropometrical Committee, but 

 then the Irish were " almost entirely " immigrants, 

 who are of the poorest class, and could not fairly 

 represent the Irish in general or the agricultural 

 classes at home ; and " the Committee regrets that 

 it has not been able to obtain more than one return 

 direct from Ireland." The results, in inches, were 

 Scots, 68-71 ; Irish, 67-90 ; English, 67-36 ; Welsh, 



