The Question of Race and Hormones

Abstract

THIS well-printed volume, dealing with a comparison of the process of bodily growth in two groups of Chinese, is one of a series of valuable studies of eastern Asiatic peoples undertaken by the anthropologist of the Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Before he left Russia in 1917, Mr. Shirokogoroff was investigating the non-Chinese population of northern Asia: but when the circumstances of the times created obstacles that made it impossible for him to measure the children of Tungus, Manchu and Mongolian peoples, he transferred his attention to China. Dr. V. Appleton not only placed at his disposal her observations and measurements of 900 children made in the mission schools of Ningpo and Hangchow in Chekiang province, and at Shanghai in Kiangsu province, but also provided technical assistance for making the laborious statistical calculations. Dr. Appleton examined and measured the children of both sexes, and girls up to twenty years of age. Mr. Shirokogoroff made the measurements of adult men, for the interpretation of the process of whose growth he used the figures relating to the boys in his colleague's series.

Process of Physical Growth among the Chinese.

By S. M. Shirokogoroff. Vol. 1: The Chinese of Chekiang and Kiangsu, measured by Dr. V. Appleton. Pp. vi + 137. (Shanghai: The Commercial Press, Ltd., 1925.) 6 dollars.