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higher than the general average. The pulse-respiration ratio, how- 
ever, is relatively small in the " strongest," amounting to only 3.97 
(in the weakest = 4.07). This condition of subaverage pulse-rate 
with above-average respiration-rate in the Kharga " strongest " 
group is not understood. As a great many individual elements enter 
into every expression of these series and as the latter are not large 
enough to submerge the effects of all such conditions, the discrep- 
ancy may be accidental. It is regrettable that no detailed extensive 
data of similar nature exist as yet on the whites, the subject being 
far from exhausted in that race alone. 
TEMPERATURE 
The temperature of the body was taken in every case with verified 
thermometers, under the tongue, with the subject sitting, and with 
the instrument in place for at least five minutes. All the tests were 
made between 9 A. M. and 5 P. M. and were about equally dis- 
tributed over the intervening hours. The results are as follows : 
XHARGA OASIS, MEN: TEMPERATURE 
Number of observations : 95. 
Average: 98.6 F. (ist series of 47: 98.7; 2d series of 48: 98.5.) 
Median: 98.7. Mode: 2 groups, 98.5, 98.9. 
Minimum: 96.2. Maximum: 99.9. 
Table of frequencies : 


o 
ON 
o 
Os 

q\ 

q\ 
ON 
tx 
ON 
od 
Ov 
ON 
ON 
o 
Q 

ON 

ON 

01 
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Q < 
to 
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to 
4 
4 
0^ 
t>x 
ON 
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% 
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Number of cases 
i 
2 
4 
12 
14 
29 
25 
8 
Per cent 
2 1 
2 1 
4 2 
J2 <5 
14 7 
30.5 
26.3 
<J.^ 
The average temperature in the European amounts to about 98.9 
F. (37.2 C.) ; the male Indians have given the writer averages, 
according to tribes, varying from 98.1 to 98.8; the Kharga males 
show 98.6. 
In the whites each 10 F. temperature correspond, on the average, 
to 7.28 pulse-beats and 1.82 respirations; in the Indians, to 6.40 
pulse-beats and 1.78 respirations; and in the Kharga natives to 7.71 
pulse-beats and 1.87 respirations. These are differences well beyond 
the limits of the probable error, and hence are of significance, though 
their exact explanation can hardly as yet be attempted. The tempera- 
ture of the Oasis men is, plainly, low in relation to both pulse and 
