INTRODUCTORY. 



LXXl 



lucbes. 



41.00 



33.53 



Maximum drtli of chest at expiratiou - 



Minimum girth of chest at expiration - „„ ll" 



]!llean girth of chest at expiration - 



Of the remainder the following were the dimensions : 



Number of Scotchmen rejected as unfit for military service, 1,134 : 



lucbes, 



74.00 



Maximum height - - 



Minimum height . 



Mean height '^. ^^'^^ 



Maximum girth of chest at expiration 40. 00 



Minimum girth of chest at expiration - - - - - ^^- ^^ 



Mean girth of chest at expiration - 



The authorities collated furnish tliis result : 



Mean height of Scotchmen, according to different authorities. 



33.26 



Authority. 



"Array-coutractor," of tbe Edin.Med.and Surg. Jour. 



Dr. Beddoo 



Mr. Gould..... 



Tbis office 



Number 

 examined. 



5,731 

 2,678 

 7,813 

 3,435 



Mean beigbt, 

 iu iucbes. 



67.90 

 67.72 

 67.25 

 66.80 



Mean beigbt, 

 in centimetres. 



172. 47 

 172. 01 

 170. 82 

 169. 67 



It seems reasonable to conclude, then, that while the data in question exhibit an 

 excess in mean height not improbably correct, the girth of chest, after making due 

 allowance for the superior quality of the men, is so far above the mean of other 

 observations as, m connection with the circumstances, to warrant the behef that it was 

 obtained in the perfunctory manner suggested. 



In 1836, Br. James D. Forbes, of Edinburgh, drew attention to the importance of 

 such statistics in a paper read before the Royal Society of Edinburgh.^ He gave the 

 results of measuring 829 students of the university as to height, weight, iind strength; 

 the last having been ascertained by Eegnier's dynamometer. The value of these 

 tables for comparison is lessened by the fact that students from the immature age of 

 fourteen years were included, and that all alike were weighed in their clothes and 

 measured in their shoes. ^__ 



1 0,1 the results of cxpeiimcnts made on the weight, height, mid Mrevgtk of nlove 800 ii,dividuals. British Association, 

 Reports, part ii, p. 38, 1836. 



