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1、OntheHeightandWeightofBoysAged14,inTownandCountryPublicSchoolsAuthor(s):FrancisGaltonReviewedwork(s):Source:TheJournaloftheAnthropologicalInstituteofGreatBritainandIreland,Vol.5(1876),pp.174-181Publishedby:RoyalAnthropologicalInstituteofGreatBritainandIrelandStableURL:h
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4、andiscollaboratingwithJSTORtodigitize,preserveandextendaccesstoTheJournaloftheAnthropologicalInstituteofGreatBritainandIreland.http://www.jstor.org174FRANCISGALTON.-O)ntheHeightqfBoys.FromtheSOCIETY.-BulletindelaSocieted'AnthropologiedeParis.Vol.IX.No.4.Vol.X.No.1.Fromt
5、heEDITOR.-RevueScientifique,Nos.42and43,1875.FromtheEDIToB.-Nature(todate).Thefollowingpaperwasreadbytheauthor:OntheHEIGHTandWEIGHTqfBoysaged14,inTOWNandCOUNTRYPUBLICSCHOOLS.ByFRANCISGALTON,F.R.S.MYprincipalresultsmaybebrieflystated.Theyshowthecomparativeheightsandweigh
6、tsofthoseboyswhowere14ontheirlastbirthday,intwogroupsofpublicschools.Theonegroupiscomposedofschoolssituatedinthecountry,andcom-prisesMIarlborough,Clifton,andHaileybury,togetherwiththeboysoftheagesof13and14atWellington,andthoseofthefourthformatEton.Theothergroupconsistso
7、fschoolssituatedinlargetowns,andcomprisestheCityofLondonSchool,Christ'sHospital,KingEdward'sSchoolatBirmingham,andLiverpoolCollege.Itappearsthattheboysoftheabove-mentionedagesinthecountrygroupareabout14inchtallerthanthoseinthetowngroup,and7lbs.heavier;alsothatthisdiffer
8、enceofheightisdue,inaboutequaldegrees,toretardationandtototalsuppressionofgrowth;and,lastly,thatthedis-tributi
