28 SrATURK COMPAUISUX OF RESULT!^. 



compared with Dr. Coolidge's results, and this is the more remarkable as, during the 

 period of sixteen years which his researches cover, all men below 5 feet 5 inches in 

 height were rejected, while no limitation whatever existed under the draft.' 



Mr. Gould's tables afford an excellent source of comparison from the large nvim- 

 bers they comprise, as well as from the fact that the examinations were made during 

 nearly the same period of time as our own. His statistics were chiefly derived from 

 the volunteer regiments, and therefore represent another large section of the popula- 

 tion, though the reservation already pointed out as to their reliability must be borne 

 in mind. Unfortunately, it is not possible to compare our results completely in detail 

 with Mr. Gould's, on account of his having, in some instances, grouped together separate 

 States. 



The first of the following tables is of great interest. It brings together the results of 

 three series of observations, differing in character, but each having its peculiar value and 

 pertinence. The first column represents the mean stature, without selection, of the 

 male population between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years ^ the second repre- 

 sents a selected class, from which had been rejected all below an average height of 5 

 feet 3 inches ; and the third column contains the results of careful measurements made 

 between twenty and thirt)' years ago of a smaller number of men of a lesser mean age. 

 Altogether, there are embodied in this table the conclusions drawn from the examina- 

 tion of nearly a million and a half of American-born Avhite men, and it is surprising 

 how corroborative the results of these separate observations are of one another. Tf 

 these calculations be all thrown together, the resulting mean stature from the whole is 

 67.646 inches, or 1.7182 metres. 



In another part of his work, Mr. Gould has given a table of stature, in which the 

 State named represents actual natives only, and not, as in the succeeding table, men 

 enlisted in the State. These details, however, are given in g-roups, which are not 

 best fitted for comparison ; but if the separate data of our tables be correspondingly 

 aiTanged, another strikingly similar result is obtained. This is displayed in the second 

 of the following tables. 



'Statistics of the sickness and mortaJitji in the Army of the United States from January, 1839, to January, IHS.'i, 4to, 

 Wiisbiiigton, 1850, p.663. 



