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There can be no doubt that these children are taller than whites of 

 corresponding age. The peculiar breaks are not sufficiently numerous, 

 to be taken into consideration, and they appear to be due in part to acci- 

 dental variation and to differences in the periods of greatest annual in- 

 crement, to be discussed later. Between mixed blood and full blood, 

 there appears a tendency for the latter to exceed in stature; in the 

 twenty-four possible cases, the mixed bloods exceed in but nine. While 

 it is clear that the differences are small, it is positive that the mixed 

 bloods do not exceed the stature of full bloods. 



As a check on the preceding, we have the tables for weight, from which 

 the following deviations from the white standard may be calculated: 



This is consistent with the foregoing, in that these Indian children of 

 all ages are heavier than white children, with the possible exception of a 

 few ages to be discussed later. Again, there are nine cases in which the 

 mixed bloods exceed the weight of full bloods out of a possible twenty- 

 four. Of these nine, four are common to both stature and weight. 



Another point of interest is the respective variabilities as shown in 

 these tables. Again taking the white stature as the standard, we have 



