62 Anthropological Investigations. 



The arms of the colored child are longer than those of the white, 

 and the arm-spread relatively to the height of the body is greater. 



Both hands and feet, but especially the feet, are longer in the 

 colored than they are in the white child. The feet are flatter in the 

 colored. The thighs of the negro child show a remarkable difference 

 from those of the white. They appear not unlike the thighs of a 

 frog, being most prominent in the middle. This character is due 

 largely to a higher forward and outward curvature of the thigh 

 bone in the colored. 



The calves are somewhat smaller in the negro child than they are 

 in the white one. 



Differences Peculiar to Boys. 



The negro boy is generally well built, lean and muscular. The 

 body, unlike that of many normal white boys, and unless deformed 

 by disease, is plastic, straight and symmetrical. His chest is a little 

 deeper. 



The pelvis of the colored boy is more inclined and in consequence 

 of this the lumbar curve is more pronounced, and the buttocks more 

 prominent. 



The penis of the colored boy is generally longer than that of a 

 white boy of corresponding age or size. 



Differences Peculiar to Female Children. 



The colored girl, before the age of puberty, and sometimes even 

 beyond this period, is a great deal more the shape of a boy than is 

 the case with the white girl. Among white children, girls can be 

 seen to show decided feminine characters ; that is feminine shoulders 

 and thorax, waist distinctly narrowed, large hips and fat thighs as 

 early as 8 years of life. Among negro female children I have not 

 seen these characters become manifest until after 12 years of age or 

 even much later. When seen in profile the greater inclination of the 

 pelvis in the female colored child becomes very apparent. 



