7264 REPORT—1883. 
27. To save much detailed description, the Committee has thought it 
» desirable to illustrate Table III. by a series of shaded maps (Plates V.-IX.), 
which present at once to the eye the relative distribution of the stature, 
weight, and complexion of the adult male population in the several 
counties of Great Britain and in each province of Ireland. 
Map No. 1 shows the distribution of the average stature (without 
shoes) of adult males, in degrees of half an inch each from 66 to 70 inches. 
The darkest shade represents the shortest stature. 
Map No. 2 shows the distribution of the average weight (including 
‘the clothes) of adult males, in degrees of five pounds from 145 pounds to 
180 pounds. The darkest shade represents the lightest weight. 
Map No. 3 shows the distribution of adult males with fair complexion, 
i.e. blue and grey eyes with fair, light-brown, brown, and light-red hair. 
The darkest shade represents the lowest percentage of fair complexion. 
Map No. 4 shows the distribution of adult males with dark com- 
plexion, i.e. brown and black eyes, with brown, dark brown, dark red, 
‘and black hair. The darkest shade represents the highest percentage of 
dark complexion, or its greatest prevalence. 
Map No. 5 shows the distribution of adult males with mixed com- 
plexion, i.e. blue and grey eyes with dark brown and black hair. The 
-darkest shade represents the highest percentage, or the greatest prevalence 
of this complexion. 
28. As the observations were necessarily made on a limited number 
of individuals, and as doubts may exist as to whether the results can be 
accepted as representing the whole of the male population at the ages 
specified, the counties having similar statures have been grouped together, 
and the male population for each group ascertained from the Census 
-returns of 1881.1! The average stature worked out from these figures is 
67°58 inches, while that obtained from the actual observations on 8,585 
individuals, given in Table I., is 67:66 inches, the difference between 
the two being only 0:08 of an inch. Table IV. shows the grouping 
of the counties, having the same stature according to the Committee’s 
returns, and the total male population of each group at the ages from 25 
to 55 years. 
1 These returns for England and Scotland are not yet published, and the Com- 
mittee is indebted to the courtesy of the Registrars-General of those portions of 
the kingdom for manuscript copies of the returns. The ages of the men on whom 
the observations were made are not exactly the same as those obtained from the 
Census office, but they are sufficiently near for any practical purpose. The measure- 
ments were made on men from 23 to 51 years of age, while the Census returns are 
those of men from 25 to 55 years, but the four years above 51 will about compen- 
sate for the two years wanting below 25 years both in numbers and stature, in 
‘consequence of losses by death. Both periods correspond with the best portion of 
men’s lives, at least as far as stature is concerned, 
