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overacting. (46) Corrugation. (47) Orbicularis Oculi 

 relaxed. (48) Eye Movements defective. (49) Head 

 Balance asymmetrical or drooped. (50) Hand Balance 

 weak. (51) Hand Balance nervous. (52) Finger twitches. 

 (^^) Lordosis. (54) Other Abnormal Nerve Signs {^^ to 

 6^). (^^) Deaf or Hearing defective. (^6) Grinning or 

 Over-smiling. {^7) Mouth open or Jaw drooped. (58) 

 Over-mobile. (59) Response in Action defective. (60) 

 Speech defective. (61) Statuesque or Immobile. (62) 

 Tremor. (63) Miscellaneous Abnormal Nerve Signs. 



Now there are over one hundred of such groups of cate- 

 gories, and yet no more than 3-! minutes can, on the average, 

 have been given to each child. 



It is impossible to reproduce the whole of Dr. Warner's 

 categories here ; they have only to be examined to satisfy 

 any one that no examination worthy of the name could 

 have been carried out in the time at Dr. Warner's 

 disposal. Even if we assume that 7io time at all was spent 

 on the 82 % of the children who are said to be ' normal ', 

 as regards every one of these hundred groups of cate- 

 gories, we find that only 20 minutes at a maximum could 

 have been given to each of the remaining 18 % ! 



Lest the reader should imagine that some of these cate- 

 gories may turn out to have little relationship to the intel- 

 ligence of the children, it should be noted that of 50,000 

 children seen in 1888-91,7-3% are said to be 'mentally dull '.^ 

 Of 1,315 children with defective ears, however, 32-0 % of the 

 boys and 38-4 % of the girls are said to be ' mentally dull ', 

 while of 251 children whose features were ' coarse ', 49-6 % 

 of the boys and 41-3 % of the girls are registered as ' men- 

 tally dull '. 



that cannot be described anatomically. A face may be balanced or moved 

 abnormally by action of its muscles. 



^ The value of this classification of intelligence is discussed below. 



