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HUMAN FACULTY

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Names.

Marks

or

Measures.

Class

place.

Divisions of Scale.

Quarters.

Hundredths

(Gentiles).

       

00 -

   

Ist

   
   

2nd

   
   

3rd

- Lower quartile --

25" -

   

4th

   
   

5th

   
   

6th

- Middle quartile --

50° -

   

7th

(Median)

 
   

8th

   
   

9th

- -

- Upper quartile --

75° -

   

ioth

   
   

I I th

   
   

12th

   
       

100, -

As it may interest persons to know how they would stand among the visitants to a large London Exhibition, I give a brief extract on next page from my published table (Nature, January 8, 1885), [86], concerning those measured at the International Health Exhibition.

Suppose the reader to be a male adult, and the strength of his pull as with a bow to be 78 lbs., he will learn that his class-place in that particular is at the seventieth centile. In other words, that of