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ON the data published in the “Final Report of the Anthropometric Committee” of the British Association (1883), the Scottish people have been regarded as being considerably taller than any other British nationality. The following letter from Dr. Aleš Hrdlička, of the United States National Museum, Washington, D.C., shows that, through an error in computation, the Scots have had nearly two-thirds of an inch added to their real stature.
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KEITH, A. The Stature of the Scottish People. Nature 110, 8 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110008a0
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