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period just mentioned (*) ; thus the stature of woman as well 

 as of man has diminished in the last two hundred years. 



The kind of life and the conditions of the surroundings modify 

 the height, workmen being, as a rule, smaller than the general 

 population, ( 2 ) and labourers in workshops and mills smaller 

 than those who live in the open air.( 3 ) The poor are smaller than 

 the rich in the same country and town. A comparison was made 

 in various districts in^Paris and the difference was quite appreci- 

 able in every case.( 4 ) 



FIG. 111. 



Stature of man and woman. 



( J ) Voltaire, Dictionnaire Philos. (art. Homme). 



( 2 ) Beddoc, The Stature and Bulk of Man in the British Isles, 1870, p. 148, 



( 8 ) Houze, Bull. Soc. Anthrop. de Bruxelles, 1887. 



( 4 ) Bertillon, L. Manouvrier. 



