Hrdlicka. 



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PART IV. 



Differences in the Children According to Their 

 Nationalities. 



The differences in the children of different nationalities must be 

 sought for principally in the measurements. All the differences 

 must necessarily be considered separately at every age, and through 

 this we are obliged to make so many separations of the children 

 that several of the resulting groups of the boys and almost all the 

 groups of the girls become insufficient for comparisons. 



The positive results of the comparison of the measurements of 

 the white children of the different nationalities will not be many, and 

 none of those which we obtain can be looked on as definite, but are 

 subject to further verification. 



Had we sufficient numbers of children and no physically excep- 

 tional individuals among them, this part of the study would be 

 anthropologically the most interesting one. As the matter stands, 

 however, there are many defects to it. 



The differences in the measurements of the children can be shown 

 in the plainest way by a table in which the figures under the different 

 headings represent the positions which the children of the different 

 groups occupy in that particular respect in the total number of the 

 age series. The figures will do more justice to children of most 

 nationalities than they will do to Americans, a large proportion of 

 whom come from families which are in various ways defective. 



Average Positions Which the Children of Different Nationalities Occupy 

 in the Total Number of the Age Series. 



