Abstract
In Papers I and II, star clusters in the Small Magellanic Cloud were identified, tabulated, and described.1 Their properties as individual clusters were discussed and compared with analogous properties of clusters of the Galaxy. It is the purpose of this paper, the last of the series, to discuss some of the features of the star clusters as a group. Such a discussion is of particular significance for the Small Magellanic Cloud, which offers an opportunity to analyze the properties of an entire population of star clusters associated with a fair-sized galaxy. It is reasonably certain also that neither the completeness of the sample nor the photometry of the individual clusters can be greatly affected by local absorption. In these respects the Small Cloud is unique among the known local group galaxies that contain both stellar populations, and that are large enough to include a statistically significant sample of star clusters. Serial numbers of clusters used here are taken from Paper I, which also discusses the properties, limitations, and weaknesses of the data.
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