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TABLE XXXV. 

 Mean change, without regard to sign, between the observed values of the Ilelative 

 Humidity at 6 a.m. on consecutive days, for each of the years 1860, 1861, and 

 1862. 



TABLE XXXVL 

 Monthly mean differences, without regard to sign, between the observed values of 

 the Relative Humidity at 6 a.m. on consecutive days, for tlie difftM-ent months. 



TABLE XXXVII. 

 Mean differences, with their proper signs, between the values of the Eelative 

 Humidity observed at "6 a.m. on consecutive days, arranged according to the 

 daily resultant direction of the wind in the same interval, for the three years 

 . 1860, 1861, and 1862. 



THE PHYSIQUE OF DIFFERENT NATIONALITIES. 



AS ASCERTAINED BY INSPECTION OF GOVERNMENT RECRUITS. 



[From a communication made to the Statistical Society of New York, by 

 Dr. Wm. H. Thompson.'] 



Some writers appear to take it for granted that the Saxon, the Celt and the 

 German have in a measure deteriorated on American soil, especially as respects 

 physical vigor. The causes which have given rise to these opinions are readily 

 appreciable, for they lie on the surface. No one, I think, who has spent much 

 time in Great Britain, the source of the bulk of our population, can fail to notice, 



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