Excerpt from Anthropological Investigations on One Thousand White and Colored Children of Both Sexes: The Inmates of the New York Juvenile Asylum, With Additional Notes on One Hundred Colored Children of the New York Colored Orphan Asylum
The following work is based upon the investigations of one thousand children of the New York Juvenile Asylum and on about one hundred additional cases of children of the New York Colored Orphan Asylum.
Before proceeding to state the results of my investigations, I think it advisable to make a few remarks about the real nature, principal objects, and mode of execution of the work.
There were measured and examined, as thoroughly as possible without offense to the modesty of the children, one thousand of the inmates of the institution. In addition, as already mentioned, a number of the most important measurements were secured on about one hundred negro children, inmates of the New York Colored Orphan Asylum.
In selecting the measurements to be applied to the children I have chosen all those which can be expected to show the principal characteristics of the children’s evolution, and I have excluded all those which are either of a secondary importance, or very difficult.
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