Statistics, medical and anthropological, of the Provost-Marshal-General's Bureau, derived from records of the examination for military service in the armies of the United States during the late war of the rebellion .. . ^ dwelt u])onin a previous portion of this work. An important condition in the calculation is homo-geneity of race; and when the varied oi-igin of the population of the United States isconsidered, it seemed hardly reasonable to expect satisfactory proof of the applicabilityof the law in their case. The most successful result of our experiments in applyingthe binomial theorem to
Statistics, medical and anthropological, of the Provost-Marshal-General's Bureau, derived from records of the examination for military service in the armies of the United States during the late war of the rebellion .. . ^ dwelt u])onin a previous portion of this work. An important condition in the calculation is homo-geneity of race; and when the varied oi-igin of the population of the United States isconsidered, it seemed hardly reasonable to expect satisfactory proof of the applicabilityof the law in their case. The most successful result of our experiments in applyingthe binomial theorem to statistics of height was when the table exliibiting the dimen-sions of 315,620 white natives was subjected to the process. The resulting curve,though not as symmetrical as in the case of purer races, is yet of great value as evi-dencing obedience to the La taille iiost iiullcnieut, conime ou Ia i<?i)<5tiS, IVxpressiou du bien-etie ou de la luisere, inais avant tout,celle de la race; eu dautres terraes la taille est affaire dli^rdditt^. BidJ. de \a Soc. dunthioiiologic, t. iv, p. 250, Paris1863. DOuBiGNY, speaking of tbo Patagonians, {Llwmme americaiii, t. 1, p. 100, Paris, 1839,) describes tbem as accus-tomed to seuii-starvatiou from earliest eliildliood in tbeir bleak aud sterile land; yet, as is well known, their statnre,though much below that ascribed to them by early circumnavigators, is the highest mean stature recorded of any decided upon 5 feet 11 inches ( centimetres) as probably a fair statement of their mean height. ( rmjagesnf the Adventure and Beagle, vol. iil, p. 102, Loudon, 1839.) Perhaps the most convincing illustration of the dependence of .stature upon race is to bo seen in the charts andtables produced by Lagneau in his discourse upon the geographical distribution of certain disqualificationstatisticsmedica01unit
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