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No. II. —DEVELOPMENT, GROWTH AND 
DECAY. 
1. Weight and height and condition of the hair and nails, 
and colour of the iris at birth. 
2. Time at which the milk teeth appear. 
3. Are the children who do not observe the rule put to 
death ? 
4. When do the fontanelles close 1 
5: What is the rate of growth in height during infancy 
and childhood ? 
6. Time of appearance of the teeth of the second dentition ? 
7. Is there any peculiarity in connection with the eruption 
of the wisdom teeth ? 
(Monthly observations should be made, if possible, on 
Nos. 2-7.) 
8. Is caries of teeth common 1 are they worn down by 
hard or gritty food. 
9. What is the usual age of puberty as indicated in females 
by commencement of menstruation and development of 
breasts, and in males by change of voice, and development of 
hair on face, or other parts of body ? 
10. Age of union of epiphyses and closure of sutures. 
11. At what ages in the two sexes do the maxima of stature 
and of bulk or general physical development seem to be 
attained ? 
12. What are the average and the extreme length of life 
observed or reported ? 
13. About what age do women cease to menstruate ? and 14 
what are the extremes of child-bearing age ? 
15. Are old people allowed to reach the natural term of 
life, or are they killed or allowed to starve ? 16. If the age 
in years cannot be ascertained inquire how many generations 
may exist simultaneously, e.g., whether a man often sees his 
great grand-children. 17. Condition in old age of teeth and 
jaws ; of hair, as to changes in colour or quantity ; of eyes, 
as to transparency of lens and cornea (arcus senilis). 18. 
Acuteness of sight and hearing in old age. J. S. 
