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clearly indicates at these periods a relatively diminished growth of 

 the lower limbs. 



Variations in percentage of height supra ischia to total height in 10-cm. groups of latter 



As to the percentage of the body above the ischia to the whole 

 stature in the male and the female children, the following differences 

 appear : 



Excess of females over males in ratio to height of body above ischia 



In most of the groups, in the females the percentage of the height 

 of the body supra ischia is slightly greater, and that of the lower 

 limbs slightly less, than it is in the males. This condition is especially 

 marked in the stature divisions of 140 to 149.9 and 150 to 159.9 cm., 

 or in children from a little more than 12 to a little more than 15 

 years of age. These statures and years embrace in the Indian girls 

 of the tribes included in the present studies almost the entire period 

 of puberty. 



Weight. — All the children were weighed bareheaded and in their 

 ordinary school clothing, of moderate weight, not exceeding at the 

 maximum about 4 kilograms.'^ The average results in the main 

 stature groups are given in the following table, accompanied by the 

 weights of white children of similar statures. The data for the latter 

 were obtained from Professor Bowditch's tables'' on Boston school 

 children of all nationalities. 



a The stature of the subject was invariably m^'asured with the shoes off and the weight with the 

 shoes on. 



b Bowditch, II. P., The Growth of Children, Eighth Annual Report of Stale Board of Health, Massa- 

 chusetts, Boston, 1877, 40-47. This valuable work contains references to German and English children. 



