t^TATlin; NECiROES. 



The .succeeding- curve is luruished by the 25,828 colored lueii of Table ISo. 2. In 

 each instance, both acce^Dted and rejected men are included in the numbers forming 

 the ordinates, so that the curves represent the average population, and not a selected 

 class. 



A comparison of national stature, in which the data should be obtained by 

 measuring only men who had reached the age of completed growth, is much to be 

 desired. If, in addition, these men were taken promiscuously from the general popu- 

 lation, the result would be most satisfactory. A partial contribution of this kind is 

 possible from the materials of this work. Men belonging to the six principal nativities 

 represented have been carefully separated, and their mefin height determined when at 

 an age not under thirty nor over thirty-five years, or at the period of their fully- 

 completed ■ growth. A comparison of the result with the mean stature of the race at 

 all ages from eighteen to forty -five, as set fortli in the preceding table, is now given. 



Comparison of the mean stature at the period of completed growth with the mean stature at all ages 



from IS to 45 years. 



The period of the attainment of full growth has an important bearing on the claim 

 of the state for military service from its citizens. In ISfiS, M. Champouillon, in the 

 department of the Seine, during his examination of men for the yanle natinnah mohile, 

 had occasion to re-examine those who had been exempted in 1864, 1865, and 1866. 

 He found that, of one hundred men who had been rejected in 1864 as below the stand- 

 ard, seventy-one had attained the requisite height in 1868. Of the class of 1865, he found 

 fifty-five men, and f)f tliP class of 1866, fnrtji-five men, wlio liad likewise become of 



