5o 



Anthropological Investigations. 



rapid according to our figures between 3 and 7 years of age. This 

 should probably read up to 7 years of age, as in the new-born 

 infants the chest is almost equal in itsanterio-posterior and its lateral 

 diameter and it has already flattened considerably at the age of 

 three, at which our figures begin. 



Chest. 



Average Chest Index of 



Children According to the Color, Sexes 

 and Ages. 



The number of colored subjects represented in the above figures 

 is small. If we include in this table, for the purpose of finding out 

 with more certainty the relations of the chest index between the 



