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TABLE VIII. 



COMPARISON BETWEEN ABEEDEEN STUDENTS AND OTHER CLASSES 



(MALES). 

 Means of Characters. 



Here you will notice the marked similarity between the four 

 higher classes as regards head measurements, and the taller stature of 

 Cambridge men. But when we look to the criminal and insane 

 classes, we find striking differences between them and the others. 

 The most marked difference is in stature, and it is very striking, the 

 criminals and insane being two to four inches shorter than the students 

 and the rural population of Aberdeenshire. In head breadth, too, 

 the English criminals and Scottish insane are considerably below the 

 other classes; so are the English criminals in head length, but the 

 curious fact is brought out that both in head length and head 

 breadth the Scottish criminals are very much the same as the other 

 classes ; indeed they and the Scottish insane have the longest heads of 

 all. The most distinguishing character between the higher and the 

 lower type is stature. 



1 Biometrika, vol. v., pp. 344, 346-47, Tocher. 



2 Ibid., vol. v., p. 124, Pearson. 



3 Ibid., vol. i., pp. 188, 190, Macdonell, and The Chances of Death, etc., vol. i., 

 p. 351, Pearson. 



*Ibid., vol. i., pp. 181, 190, Macdonell, 



