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 Gymnasium, took W, a boy at Radley College, ten years old, and seven years later, his height increased from 4 feet 6¾ inches to 5 feet 10¾ inches, or a gain of 16 inches in all; in his weight from 66 pounds—light weight for a ten-year-old boy—to 156 pounds; far heavier than most boys at seventeen; showing an advance of 90 pounds. His forearm went from 7¼ to 11¾ inches—very large for a boy of seventeen, and decidedly above the average of that of most men; his upper arm from 7½ inches to 13⅜—also far above the average at that age; while his chest had actually increased in girth from 26 inches—which was almost slender, even for a ten-year-old—to 39½ inches; which is all of two inches larger than the average man's.

His description of this boy was: "Height above the average; other measurements average. From commencement, growth rapid, and sustained with regular and uniform development. The whole frame advancing to great physical power."

Another boy, H, starting when ten years old, 4 feet 6¼ inches high, and weighing 73 pounds—much heavier than the other at the start—in eight years gained 13½ inches, making him 5 feet 7¾ inches—of medium height for that age. He gained 71 pounds in the eight years, and at 144 pounds was better built than W at 156; for, though his forearm, starting at 8 inches, had become 11½, a quarter of an inch loss than W's, yet his upper arm had gone from 8¾ to 13½, inches, or one-eighth of an inch larger, while his chest rose from 28¼ to 39 inches—within half an inch of the other's, though the latter was 3 inches taller.

He is described: "Height slightly above average; other measurements considerably above average. From commencement, growth and development regular and