Records of the Indian Museum. [Vol, XXIII, 1922.] 



r = + -32 83 

 f>„ , .= +'1303+088 



The correlation in the latter case is scarcely significant, 

 but seems to be slightly positive. 



Thus there seems to be a small positive interracial correlation 

 between the average stature and the coefficient of variation. 



Assuming recent races to be more variable, the positive 

 interracial correlation between stature and variability may be 

 explained on the hypothesis that tallness is a recent acquirement 

 of the human species. The greater variability is not merely due 

 to the greater absolute size of the caller races, since the coefficient 

 of variability i.e. proportional variability itself is also positively 

 correlated with stature. 



