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PROFESSOR KARL PEARSON, MATHEMATICAL 
hope for light on the manner in which our own population has developed and is 
developing.* 
(29.) The following table restates some of the numerical results reached, and further 
includes, for the purposes of comparison, the stature of certain modern races as given 
by various authorities. No stress whatever is laid on the latter values, which have 
often been determined by doubtful observers from very small series.t They are merely 
given here in order to show the general position of the reconstructed races in the order 
of racial statures. 
Table of Stature and Sexual Ratio for Divers Races. 
Race. 
Authority. 
Male. 
Female. 
Ratio / $ • 
12 giants > 200 . 
Memoir, pi. 226 
217-6 
4 sub-giants. Bavarian recruits 
Ranke 
190-5 
3 sub-giants in Museums . . 
Memoir, p. 226 
186-9 
Samoans. 
Topinard 
188-3 
Patagonians. 
Moveno and Lister 
185-0 
Caribeans. 
Humboldt 
184-0 
Rod Indians. 
Topinard 
175-180 
Polynesians. 
170-180 
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, , 
Flamboro’ Head Englisli . . 
Pitt Rivers 
175-2 
162-5 
1-078 
Livonians . 
Topinard 
173-6 
Americans (born). 
Gould 
173-5 
Fellahs (Egypt). 
WOLNEY 
173-0 
English (Middle classes) . . . 
Pearson 
172-8 
159-9 
1-080 
Todas of Nilgherry. 
Marshall 
172-7 
Norwegians ... .... 
H UNT 
172-0 
, , 
American Scottish. 
Gould 
171-6 
Bantu. 
Fritsch 
171-8 
Finns . 
Bonsdorff 
171-4 
American Norse. 
Baxter 
171-3 
Round Barrow British .... 
Memoir, p. 213 
171-1 
160-2 
1-090 
Anglo-Saxons. 
„ p. 216 
170-9 
156-0 
1-096 
American Ii'ish. 
Gould 
170-5 
Lithuanians. 
Topinard 
170-4 
American English. 
Gould 
170-1 
English Commonalty. 
Galton 
170-0 
158-3 
1-074 
Sikhs . 
Topinard 
170-0 
Bajuvars from Row Graves. 
Memoir, n. 214 
169-2 
154-5 
1-095 
American Germans. 
Baxter 
169-5 
, , 
American Danes. 
169-2 
American Swedes. 
Gould 
169-2 
. , 
Nubians. 
Topinard 
169-0 
Bechuanas. 
Fritsch 
168-4 
, , 
American negroes (pure) 
Gould 
168-0 
• • 
* For example, no one can say at jiresent what was the stature of Englishmen fi’Om a.d. 1000 to 1700, 
and yet large collections of bones exist, which would sullice to answer this problem. 
t Topinard, for example, considers the sex ratio for 73 series in “Etude sur la taille consideree 
suivant . . le sexe . . . et les races,” ‘Revue d’Authropolgie,’ 1876, p. 34, but he merely gives means 
for grouped, results and does not tell us the details for the individual series. 
