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present French commonalty, almost, but not quite, as tall as the present English 
commonalty in their men, but sensibly below it as regards their women. The men 
wmre at least 1 to 3 centims. taller than the present Munich population, w^hich gives 
168 centims. as mean of accepted recruits, and 166 centims. as a mean based on 
corpse measurement. (See Ranke, “ Zur Statistik der Korpergrosse . . in ‘ Anthro- 
pologie der Bayern,’ vol. 1, and Pearson, ‘ The Chances of Death,’ vol. 1, p. 295.) 
(18.) Anglo-Saxons. 
Here my data are extracted frf)m Dr. Bedboe’s paper. 
Number. 
F. 
T. 
Anglo-Saxons in general, male . . 
65 
47T7 
(12> 
39-05 
,, ,, female . 
26 
42-77 
Wittenham, peasantry, male 
23 
46-69 
, * 
„ „ female . 
17 
42-24 
,, with tibia, male 
Ely, bishops, male. 
7 
48-34 
39-43 
5 
46-74 
38-51 
Allowance has been made (see p. 197) for the length of the spine. 
Stature of Anglo-Saxons, 
(a.) 
(c.) 
(e.) 
(/)■ 
Mean. 
Anglo-Saxons in general, male . 
170-0 
171-4 
171-2 
171-2 
170-9 
,, ,, female . 
156-0 
• • 
Wittenham, ^Jeasantry, male 
169-1 
,, „ female . 
155-0 
* , 
, , 
• • 
,, with tibia, male . . 
172-2 
172-3 
173-0 
173-0 
172-6 
Ely, bishops, male. 
169-2 
170-1 
170-1 
170-1 
169-9 
Dr. Beddoe’s results diverge again immensely from mine.t For the Anglo-Saxons 
in general he finds, for example: male, 174’7 centims., and female, 160‘2 centims.; 
while his estimate, using the tibia for the Wittenham second male group, is 70’S6 
inches, or 180 centims. ! 
If his conclusions were correct, the modern English would have degenerated very 
much from the Anglo-Saxons in stature. 
* Ijoc. cit. p. 209. 
t I make Earl Brithnoth (F = 52'07, T = 4P58) abonfc 180 centims., while Dr. Beddoe's estimate 
is 192. 
