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with the black and other races. The North American Indian is intermediate 

 between the yellow and the black races which are less than the wliite in body 

 length. 



The length of the bodj' is measured in so manj' ways by different 

 men that one is at a loss to Imow which method to select. The distance 

 from the suprasternal notch to the symphysis pubis is the easiest and 

 most direct method and lends itself to pliotometry as well as anthropo- 

 metry. Although it is variable on account of the movable points from 

 which it is measured, it is probably as exact as any other. The acromion 

 to the symphysis is probably more variable, and the suprasternal notch 

 to the trochanter is scarcely less so. The length of the vertebral column 

 is the actual body length, and can be measured from the nasal spine to the 

 pubis, but these are also variable points. 



The average body length of the Taj'tayans from the suprasternal notch 

 to the symphysis pubis is 47.1 centimeters, from the suprasternal notch 

 to the trochanter it is 45.8 centimeters, and from the acromion ^o the 

 symphysis pubis it is 47.8 centimeters. 



The body length of the inhabitants of the inland part of the Malay Penin- 

 sula(18), (p. 283), measured from the suprasternal notch to the trochanter (?) , 

 averages from 43.5 centimeters in the Senoi I, to 47.2 centimeters in the Western 

 Senoi. .The body length of the inhabitants of central Sumatra (39), measured 

 from the acromion to the symphysis pubis, averages 45.2 centimeters. The body 

 length of the Igorots-(3) (p. 431) from the suprasternal notch to the pubis in 

 47.7 centimeters. Topinard{31) (p. 1068) gives the body length "de la fourchette 

 du sternum au siege" in relation to the stature which may be compared with 

 that of the Taytayans in the following table: 



Body length in relation to stature. 



Group. 



Relative 



body- 

 length. 



.^.uthor. 



T 

 Number of 

 j individ- 

 uals. 



' i 



Europeans 



Kabvlcs - — 



33.5 

 32.5 

 30.2 

 3-1.6 

 33.6 



Topinaril 



do 



do 



-—.do 



Beau 



280 

 163 



27 

 6 ■ 



— 1 170 











This places the relative body length of the Taytayans in the same 

 class as the Europeans and it is different from the Annamites. 



Differences of body length can not mean a great deal until the methods 

 of measuring the body have been unified, and the basis for the body 

 length should be the distance from the suprasternal notch to the s}tii- 

 physis pubis. At least this measurement should be made and utilized 

 in a comparison of different people. 



