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liad been taken to procure naked measurements, it is scarcely to be doubted that the 

 fact would have been mentioned in his communication ; but the contractor's business, 

 apparently, was to furnish uniforms and caps for the militia,* and it is reasonable to 

 suppose that his measures of girth were taken as tailors execute that part of their work, 

 namely, on the expanded chest, and over the vest and underclothing. It is to be 

 observed, also, that the local militia was composed generally of the better class of yeomen, 

 men given to athletic pursuits. Their age, also, is to be considered, for, although recruits 

 were admitted into the British army when eighteen years old, no one under legal age 

 was qualified for militia service ; so that in comparing them with the ordinary Scottish 

 soldier of the British or American armies, it should be remembered that the contractor's 

 men wei'e all fully grown. When to this it is added that at least half of the regiments 

 concerned were from counties on the Highland border, notably peopled by a robust 

 and hardy race, it is fair to conclude that the subjects of these measurements were 

 superior specimens of manhood, and not an average type of the Scottish people. 



No other measurements of Scotchmen exhibit so large a mean bulk as 40 inches. 

 Dr. Forbes's statistics were obtained by measuring students of the University of 

 Edinburgh, some of whom were boys of fourteen, so that his tables are unsuited for 

 the comparison. Dr. Beddoe's intesting work" contains the height of 2,678 Scotchmen, 

 being citizens, soldiers, lunatics, and criminals, between the ages of twenty-three and 

 fifty, and he is of opinion that the mean height of man in Scotland may be set at 5 

 feet 7J inches ; his tables show actually a mean result of 5 feet 7'| inches. Unfor- 

 tunately, girth of chest was not included in his inquiries. Mr. B. A. Gould, in the 

 volume published by the United States Sanitary Commission,'' gives the girth of chest 

 at inspiration and expiration of 80 Scotchmen, showing a mean bulk of 37.45 and 

 34.67 inches. He states the mean height of 7,313 Scotchmen at 67.258 inches.'' The 

 statistics of tliis office afford the following results : 



Total number of Scotchmen examined, 3,435 : 



Inches. 



Maximum height 78. 00 



Minimum height 54. 00 



Mean height 66. 80 



Maximum girth of chest at expiration 41. 00 



Minimum girth of chest at expiration 26. 00 



Mean girth of chest at expiration 33. 44 



Of the total number examined, only 2,301 were found fit for military service, 

 and these yielded the following measurements : 



Number of Scotchmen accepted for service, 2,301 : 



luches. 



Maximum height 78. 00 



Minimum height 60. 00 



Mean height 66. 78 



' He adds a fablo of thocouiparative size of mea's beads, obtaiued iu the retail hat-shops of London and Edinburgh. 

 ' On the stature and hulk of man in the British Isles, Mem. Anthrop. Soc. of London, vol. iii, p. 545, 1869; also pub- 

 lished separately, 8vo, London, 1870. 

 ' Inrcsligationa, &c., p. 263. 

 * Ibid., p. 105. 



