This table may be compared with the table below for colored recruits 

 or persons of African descent: 



DISTRIBUTION OF STATURE ACCORDING TO AGE OF ACCEPTED 



The much lesser number of colored recruits precludes a strict com- 

 parison, but in the main the data may be relied on as trustworthy. As 

 will be observed, the total number of white recruits examined was 

 304,113, against 18,002 colored. 



RACE IN RELATION TO WEIGHT 



The distribution of white recruits by weight is presented in the table 

 below. Possibly the grouping of the weights in series of ten pounds 

 each falls short of the required degree of scientific attainment, and 

 five-pound groups would perhaps have been preferable: 



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