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to the age of 40, this would indicate that the Filipino reaches maturity 

 in stature late in life, and if the stature at age 15 is equal to that in 

 adult life the Filipino reaches maturitj' at an early age. Both may be 

 true. There may be an early rapid maturity that is premature, and a 

 late ripening that is real maturity, or some types may mature early 

 and others late, or there may be waves of progression superceded by 

 regTession, althou.gh the last is very improbable. 



There is no such regularity in the increase of stature as found among ■ 

 the Igorots, and the fastigium for the latter was between 20 and 30 

 instead of about 40. The fastigium for stature of the following peoples 

 from records of more than a million individuals (31) is given for 

 comparison with the people of Taj'tay : 



North American) Years. 



Irish ■ I 31-34 



English 29 



Scotch 28 



French 27 



Scandinavian 25 



German 23 



Igorot 20-30 



Taytay 40 



Liharzig gives the twenty-fifth year, Villermi the twenty-third. 



SITTING HEIGHT. 



This linear dimension is the distance between the ischial tuberosity 

 and the vertex of the head when the person is sitting erect. It may be 

 divided into three parts, the total head height, from the chin to the 

 vertex; the neck length, from the chin to the suprasternal notch; and 

 the body length, from the suprasternal notch to the pubic spine ; although 

 the three dimensions do not quite equal the sitting height because the 

 pubis is several centimeters higher than the ischial tuberosities. 



The average sitting height of 181 adult males is 83.99 centimeters 

 with minimum and maximum of 74.3 and 91.7, respectively. It is 

 7.6 centimeters more than the distance from the trochanter to the vertex, 

 6.9 centimeters more than the distance from the pubic spine to the 

 vertex, and 0.9 centimeter more than the total leg length. It is 53.3 

 per cent of the stature which is O.S more than the European according 

 to Topinard, and 3.9 less than the length "Scheitel bis Damm'^ of 130 

 Europeans (Swiss?) measured by Hoffmann and given in A-^ierordt's 

 tables (36). The sitting height of 60 Ajjache and 53 Pima Indians 

 of the southwestern United States measured by Hrdlicka(13) is 53.2 

 and 52.9 per cent respectively, which is practically the same as my 

 figures for Taytay. 



Soularue ( 29 ) approximates the relative body length by comparing the length 

 of the vertebral column of 174 skeletons to the calculated stature, and concludes 

 that the white and yellow races have relatively long bodies and short legs compared 



