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NATIONALITY AND RACE 



averages taken from large mixed samples of the 

 population. This has been done on a sufficient 

 scale, partly by private effort, and still more in 

 continental Europe in course of the annual examina- 

 tion of the adult male population liable to military 

 service. Fairly definite and clear conclusions have 

 been reached. In any country or in any part of it, 

 individuals present wide differences, but when the 

 results are plotted out in some graphic form, the 

 distinctions become clear because of the different 



Percentage Distribution of Stature. (After Ripley). 



positions of the peaks of the curves. Thus, in the 

 diagram annexed, the stature of three large groups 

 of men taken respectively from Scotland, North Italy 

 and Sardinia is plotted out on curves. The hori- 

 zontal line is graduated for heights increasing from 

 left to right and the vertical line for percentages 

 of men. Thus the height of each curve at any given 

 point shows the percentage of individuals with the 



