270 MEMORIES OF MY LIFE
those measured at the above Exhibition about 1 70 per cent. were weaker and 30 per cent, stronger.
This little table contains excellent material for comparing the powers of the two sexes.
From Measurements made at the Anthropometric Laboratory in
the International Health Exhibition of 1884.
| |
|
|
Centiles. |
|
Subject of
Measurement. |
Unit of
Measure. |
Sex. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
10° |
30° |
50° |
70° |
90° |
| |
|
M. |
645 |
66.5 |
67'9 |
69'2 |
71'3 |
|
Height standing,
without shoes |
Inches { |
F• |
59.9 |
62.1 |
63.3 |
64.6 |
66.4 |
|
Span of arms |
Inches |
M. |
66.1 |
68.2 |
69'9 |
71'4 |
73'6 |
| |
|
F• |
59.5 |
61.7 |
63'o |
64.5 |
66.7 |
|
Weight in indoor |
pounds ( |
M. |
125 |
135 |
143 |
150 |
165 |
|
clothing } |
t |
F. |
105 |
114 |
122 |
132 |
142 |
|
Breathing capacity |
Cubic
{ |
M.
F.- |
177 |
199 |
219 |
236 |
277 |
| |
inches |
|
102 |
124 |
138 |
151 |
177 |
|
Strength o f pull |
pounds |
M. |
6o |
68 |
74 |
78 |
89 |
|
with a bow } |
{ |
F. |
32 |
36 |
40 |
44 |
51 |
One of my many inquiries related to what I called
Number Forms"; it originated in this way. Mr. George Bidder, Q.C., son of the engineer who in his youth was the famous "calculating boy" (i 8o61878), and who iQherited and transmitted much of his father's remarkable powers, wrote in a postscript of a letter to me in response to other inquiries, that he himself habitually saw numbers in his mind's eye,
1 The word "about" is a slight reservation due to each class man, being one-half place short of his nominal class-place. In a class of loo, the topmost occupies the post of J, and the lowest that of 99k. There
are 1o1 divisions or "rungs" from o° to 100° inclusive, but only 100 persons. The existence of this half place may be neglected by the ordinary reader, though an expert would lay stress upon it.
