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have been published, the correlation of Philippine types with 
those of other oriental peoples must await the results of further 
investigations.® 
On examining Table III, we find that the diagonal conjugates 
measuring from 11 centimeters to 12.4 centimeters have the 
greatest number of cases (which form 85 per cent of the total 
' Though unable to draw conclusions from our pelvic measurements, it 
may be proper to state here that anthropologists have demonstrated from 
other sources that the predominant Philippine racial types are two: First, 
a type known as the Indonesian, which came into the Islands from the 
south and is related to the races of India; and, second, a Mongol-Chinese 
type, which came into the Islands chiefly from the north. The so-called 
Malayan Filipinos of to-day are essentially a mixture of these two types, 
with the addition of certain minor elements. The most important of the 
latter is a type represented by immigrants from Melanesia. Other minor 
types are of course the historical immigrations of Chinese and of Spanish 
Europeans. It is possible, then, that our five pelvic types correspond to 
these racial elements; though for the present such a conclusion must be 
regarded as mere speculation. (For discussions of Philippine racial types, 
see Beyer, Cole, Bean, Koeze, Keane, Montano, and Virchow.) 
