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Parisian nurseries and schools. The series includes at least 100 sub- 

 jects of each sex for every year of life, which insures the value of the 

 averages. The study is the first of its nature made in France ; Godin's 

 well known observations were made on older individuals. 



The results agree in the main with those of measurements of white 

 children in other countries.^ Up to the cud of their eleventh year the 

 girls are shorter than the boys; between their eleventh and twelfth 

 years they pass the boys in this regard, and continue^ taller until after 

 their fourteenth year, after which they are (Icfinitdv passed by the 

 boys. In weight the physiological excess of the f. male children 

 becomes marked even earlier and they (>xeeed die 1m)\>, ti(.ni the end 

 of the ninth to a little beyond their fifteeth vear. 



A comparison of (Ih-m- ("lata uith th(»e ol.t'aiiie.l by Professor C. P. 

 Bowditch on liosion chihhvn shows that IxMween the ages of thirteen 

 and sixteen the Parisians shj^ditly exceed the Americans in height. 

 This can very likely be attributed to earlier puberty in the French 

 adolescents. 



A. H. 



Anthropometric data on the Norwegians. — Messrs. Daae report^ the 



between 22 and 2:-; years of aiit>. 



The data show that the average stature of the Norwegians of that 

 age is 172.1 cm. The tallest men are in the district of Jarlsberg-Larvik 

 (173.4 cm.), the shortest in the district of Finmarken (168.5 cm.). 



103.00 to 100. It is' relatively shortest (102.2 to 100) in the Hergenhus- 

 Sud district, peopled by fisheruKMi wlio all the year around work with 



Daae et le Dr. H. Daae. Bull. & M^m. Soc. <i Anthrep. Taris, \ n,r S. r. 

 VII, No. 3, 1906, pp. 158-164. 



