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figures by a single or a few numbers. In order to appreciate, 

 and bring out prominently, the various elements which compose 

 a population we use other methods, besides the average. The 

 best and the most widely adapted by anthropologists of the 

 present day is that of coordination and seriation, by arranging 

 the figures obtained from measurement of the individuals in an as- 

 cending or descending order of figures, each expressing a certain 

 stature. Thus we may elicit one or more figures around which 

 most of the individuals are grouped ; various racial elements 

 may in this manner be discerned in a group of people who ap- 

 parently are of a single more or less pure race. 



Table III. 

 Stature of 1,528 Jews. 



Stature (in cm.). 



Number. 



Percent. 



Stature (in cm.). 



Number. 



Percent. 



135-136 



I 



0.07 



163-164 



189 



12.37 



137-138 



I 



0.07 



165-166 



189 



12.37 



139-140 



I 



0.07 



167-168 



169 



11.06 



I4I-I42 



2 



0.13 



169-170 



107 



7.00 



143-144 



4 



0.26 



171-172 



96 



6.28 



145-146 



3 



0.20 



173-174 



67 



4.38 



147-148 



4 



0.26 



175-176 



28 



1.83 



149-150 



15 



0.98 



177-178 



23 



1.50 



15I-I52 



20 



I-3I 



179-180 



16 



1.05 



153-154 



37 



2.42 



181-182 



9 



0.60 



155-156 



82 



5.36 



183-184 



6 



0.40 



157-158 



no 



7.29 



185-186 



I 



0.07 



159-160 

 16I-162 



150 



9.82 

 12.89 



187-188 



I 



0.07 



197 



Total. 



1,528 



100.02 



In Table III this has been done with the figures obtained by 

 measuring the Jews in New York. It will be seen from the 

 figures in this table that up to the height of 148 cm. are very 

 few individuals ; only one percent were observed to be of such 

 low stature. The number of persons at a given height now 

 begins to increase slowly until the height of 162—163 ^^ reached. 

 In this group we find the largest number of people — 197 or 

 12.89 percent. The proportion of observations now remains 

 about stationary, till 166 cm. is reached when the percentage 

 begins to decrease steadily until the height of 180 cm., where 

 the number of persons is again becoming insignificant. The 



