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This accounts for all but 210 composed of very small groups. 

 But this is not the whole truth; for of the 1408 born in the United 

 States there must first be deducted the negroes, who are excluded 

 from my statistics. Their number is not given in the reports. I 

 estimate it at perhaps 5% of the Americans. But what is more 

 serious is that there is great reason to believe that the majority 

 (I incline to think the large majority) of the natives are the children 

 of foreign parents, mostly Irish. Hence it is evident that the number 

 of subjects which can be said to represent the native population is 

 extremely small. My statistics are more truly a contribution to Irish 

 anthropology than to American. In fact I never intended to oflfer 

 them as anthropological work. It is noteworthy, however, that 90 7o 

 (accurately 89,5+) of those admitted were born in Great Britain, its 

 dependencies, and the United States. 



The collective statistics of Great Britain and Ireland are, I am 

 afraid, not more homogeneous. The subjects in Ireland are, no doubt, 

 practically all Irish; those in Scotland are probably mostly Scotch, 

 though Glasgow must contain many strangers; but I doubt very much 

 whether the material in the dissecting rooms of London and of some 

 other of the great English cities can be called distinctly English. If 

 I am wrong I shall be glad to be corrected by some of our English 

 colleagues. The Russian statistics are, no doubt, far more satisfactory. 



There are four series in which Schwalbe and Pfitzner claim 

 to have found differences enough marked to have an anthropological 

 significance. Of these the most satisfactory to me both on account 

 of the large number examined and the source of the material is the 

 one showing the absence of the palmaris longus in 12,7 7o ^^ St. 

 Petersburg, and in 20,4 ^lo at Strassburg. 



Very striking is the remarkable difference of frequency of the 



1) Of these 950 were born in the New England States, and 178 in 

 New York State. 



