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stature, and ignoring every other fact, what may be the prob- 
able average height of the brothers, sons, nephews and grand- 
children respectively, and what proportion of these will 
probably range between any two specified heights ? He found 
the average height of man in Great Britain, at what he calls 
the "level of mediocrity" to be 5 feet ^% inches. He was 
able to transmute female to male heights by multiplying by 
1.08, or as he says, to state it roughly, add one inch to each 
foot He established the ratio of height between brothers, 
between father and son, uncles and nephews, between grand- 
fathers and grandchildren, and calculated the probability for 
the future. He proved that with all the certainty of diver- 
gence in height in individual cases, there was a law which tend- 
ed to bring the whole people towards their mean level — that the 
progeny of tall men grow shorter and that of short men taller. 
And he adds the important fact derived from his study of "Here- 
ditary Genius," that the peculiarities of mankind, say of Genius, 
follow the same rule. This rule seems reasonable and wise, 
otherwise while the children of the good people would become 
" very, very good," yet those of the evil people would become 
even worse than " horrid," and as the evil are numerical by 
greater, the world, but for this rule, would soon be given over 
The Societe d'Anthropologie at Paris has issued a full set of 
instructions adapted to nearly all parts of the world. 
General instructions are printed with particular instructions 
for France, for Australia, Algeria, Peru, Senegal, Mexico, 
Chili, Sicily, the Red Sea, Cambodia, Central Asia, Maylasia, 
Madagascar, each separate, but together forming a volume of 
not less than a thousand pages. Travelers to any of these 
countries are recommended to provide themselves with these 
mstructions and the necessary instruments, and take obser- 
vations to be reported back to the Societe. The same general 
course has been pursued by the principal societies in Europe. 
I will not attempt to give even a list of the reports made in ac- 
cordance with these recommendations, such would be so in- 
complete that it would mislead rather than inform the reader. 
But it may be summarized by saying that about all we know 
with certainty in figures of the physical characteristics of the 
various peoples of the world we know from these sources. 
I give a sample of the information thus received, a resume of 
the report made by Surgeon H. B. Guppy of his visit to the 
Solomon Islands. He operated upon 72 natives and gives the 
tables of measurements in every part of the body. His resume 
