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STATfRT. Hr.I-ATIOX TO COMPLEXION, 



The jiropurtioii of light to dark complexioned men in the same race has been 

 made the subject of careful analysis in five principal examples, with the following- 

 result : 



Nativity. 



United States 

 British Anieric- 



Englautl 



Ireland 



Germany 



Ligbtcom- 

 plexioned. 



Daik-coui- 

 plexioned. 



Total i Mean height of 

 number light-coniplex- 

 ofmen. ioned. 



126,445 



9,K0(i I 

 6, H04 

 20, :j78 

 20, 559 



fi4, 17ti 

 4,859 

 2,845 

 8, 617 

 9,041 



190,621 



14, :W5 



9,649 



28, 995 



29, (UIO 



Indies. 

 67. 652 

 67. 169 

 66. 582 

 66. 755 

 6(i. .531 



Metres. 

 1.7184 

 1.7061 

 1.6912 

 1.6956 

 1. 6899 



Mean he'ght of 

 dark-coniplex- 

 ioneil. 



Inches. 

 ()7. 775 

 67. 073 

 66.621 

 06. 755 

 66. .526 



Metres. 

 1.721.''- 

 1 . 7037 

 1.692'; 

 I . ()956 

 1.6898 



It is thus manifest that while, in the catalogue of nativities, a loftier stature char- 

 acterizes the l)londe races, the same condition by no means obtains in detail amtMig 

 themselves. Two-thirds of the whole number of native-born white Americans were 

 fair-complexioned; but their mean stature was one-tenth of an inch below that of their 

 darker brethren. The difference is very little in any instance; the Irish presenting the 

 curious phenomenon of a precisely similar mean stature for both complexions. While 

 it may be con-ect to assert that nations of superior stature exhibit a majority of blondes, 

 it is still more strikingly evident, from these figures, that stature depends upon race, and 

 not upon complexion. 



The gradation in mean stature of the inhabitants of the different States of the 

 Union is the subject of the next table ; the investigation is carried still further in the 

 succeeding one, and the result exhibited in the congressional districts also. 



Table showimi the order of superiority in stature, hy States, of 31;},620 American-born tvhite men. 



State. 



Kentucky . . . . 



Kansas 



Minnesota 



Missouri 



California 



Nevada 



Indiana 



West Virginia 

 Wiseousin . .. . 



Maint! 



Iowa 



Illinois 



Michigan 



o S 



a <o » 



3 2.5 



3, 

 6, 

 1, 



38, 



5, 

 10, 

 12, 



7, 

 36, 

 12, 



252 

 729 

 682 

 031 

 308 

 21 

 354 

 187 

 922 

 363 

 823 

 465 

 5«i 



Mean height. 



Inches. 

 68. 677 

 68. .551 

 68. 371 

 68. 337 

 68. 306 

 68. 286 

 68. 080 

 68. 005 

 67.911 

 67. 895 

 67. 895 

 67. 835 

 67. 826 



Metres. 

 1.7444 

 1.7412 

 1.7368 

 1.7358 

 1.7350 

 1.7345 

 1. 7292 

 1.7273 

 1. 7249 

 1.7245 

 1. 7245 

 1.7230 

 1.7228 



S a. 

 O 



14 

 15 

 16 

 17 

 18 

 19 

 20 

 21 

 22 

 23 

 24 

 25 



State. 



Maryland 



Ohio 



Vermont 



Delaware 



Pennsylvania 



District of Columbia. . 



Rhode Island 



New York 



New .Jersey 



New Hampshire - 



Massachusetts 



Connecticut - 



Total, and mean of total 



o c 



CS 



•2 a-a 



a » « 



.= 2.9 



6,918 



39,311 



3, 374 



1,215 



47, 124 



2, 883 



3,013 



43,798 



17, 084 



2, 801 



6, 280 



2, 099 



315, 620 



Mean height. 



Inches. 

 67. 814 

 67. 782 

 07. 583 

 67. 490 

 67. 470 

 67. 353 

 67. 290 

 67. 274 

 67. 023 

 66. 929 

 66. 891 

 66. 587 



67. 672 



Metres. 

 1.7225 

 1.7217 

 1.7166 

 1.7142 

 1.7137 

 1.7108 

 1.7092 

 1.7088 

 1.7024 

 1.7000 

 1. 6990 

 1. 691,{ 



1.7189 



