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to the age of 8 and a slight retardation between the ages of 8 

 and 12. 



The stature of the American boys and girls crosses and recrosses 

 up to the age of 10 years, that of the girls in general is less be- 

 fore this age. Between the ages of 10 and 11 the stature of the 

 girls becomes greater than that of the boys until the age of 14 is 

 reached when the growth of the girls ceases, to continue slowly 

 after the age of 15, at which time the stature of the girls becomes 

 less than that of the boys, and it remains so thereafter. The 

 growth of the American girls from 15 to 17 years of age is re- 

 tarded at a slightly slower rate than that of the Filipino boys, 

 and there is a fairly uniform parallel growth of the two except for 

 the sudden cessation in growth of the American girls from 14 to 

 15 years, the American girls at all ages being taller than the 

 Filipino boys. The growth of the American and German boys 

 is fairly parallel, the American boys shghtly taller at each age 

 except 8 when the German boys are taller. The American boys' 

 growth is retarded from 5 to 7, accelerated from 7 to 10, again 

 retarded from 10 to 13. 



The stature of the American and German girls is fairly parallel 

 until the age of 15, the German less than the American, but after 

 the age of 15 the stature of the German girls exceeds that of the 

 American girls. 



In general the stature of the Filipino is less than that of the 

 German and the stature of the German less than that of the 

 American. The growth of the Filipino girls and boys and of the 

 American girls has its final retardation earlier than that of the 

 German girls and boys and American boys, the last three giving 

 no evidence of this when the records cease at 18 years of age. 



The stature of the Filipinos beyond the age of 20 is greater 

 by 5.2 cm. than that of the adult Filipinos of Taytay (3), a village 

 near Manila. The boys belong to the well-to-do class. The Tay- 

 tayans are poor which may account for this difference. The Tay- 

 tayans are also less mixed with the Spanish and Chinese than the 

 school boys which is another factor in accounting for the differ- 

 ence in stature. 



