OCR Rendition - approximate

..'ii l um,o IT-1883. REPORT OF THE..iNTIIIIOPO\lETRIC COMMITTEE. 265 27. To save much detailed description, the Committee has thought it desirable to illustrate Table Ill. by a series of shaded maps (Plates V.-1X.), which present at once to the eye the relative distribution of the stature, weight, and complexion of the adult male population in the several counties of Great Britain and in each province of Ireland. Map No. 1 shows the distribution of the average stature (without shoes) of adult males, in degrees of half an inch each from 66 to 70 inches. .flue darkest shade represents the shortest stature. Map No. 2 shows the distribution of the average weight (including the clothes) of adult males, in degrees of five pounds front 145 pounds to ISO pounds. The darkest shade represents the lightest weight. Map No. o shows the distribution of adult males with fitir complexion, i.e. blue and grey eyes with fair, light-brown, brown, axed light-red hair. The darkest shade represents the lowest percentage of fair complexion. Map No. 4 shows the distribution of adult males with dark complexion, i.e. brown and black eyes, with brown, dark: brown, dark red, and black hair. The darkest shade represents the highest percentage of dark complexion, or its greatest prevalence. Map No. 5 shows the distribution of adult males with mixed complexion, i.e. blue and grey eyes with dark brown and black hair. The darkest shade represents the highest percentage, or the greatest prevalence of this complexion. 28. As the observations were necessarily made on a limited number of individuals, and as doubts may exist as to whether the results can be accepted as representing the whole of the male population at the ages specified, the counties having similar statures have been grouped together, and the male population for each group ascertained from the Census returns of 1881.' The average stature worked out from these figures is 67.58 inches, while that obtained from the actual observations on 8,585 individuals, given in Table I., is 67'66 inches, the difference between the two being only 0'08 of an inch. Table IV. shows the, grouping of the connties, having the same stature according to the Committee's returns, and the total male population of each group at the ages from '25 to 55 years. ' These returns for England and Scot bind are not, yet published, and tie Committee is indebted to the courtesy of the J,tegistrars-General of those portions of the kingdom for manuscript copies of the returns. '['he ages of the men on whom the observations were made are not, exactly the same as those obtained front the Census office. but, they are sufficiently near for any practical purpose. The measurements were male on teen from 23 to Cpl years of age, while the Census returns are those of men from 2t1 to bb years, butt the four years alcove 51 will about compensate for the two years wanting below 25 years both in nannbc'rs and stature, in consequence of losses by death. (loth periods correspond with the best portion of men's lives, at, least as far as stature is concerned. C Rahtr-t.c.