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60 61 62 63 64- 65 66 67 68 69 70 7/ 72 73 74- 75 76 

 Fig. 2. Scale of Husband's Statdke. 



We find a resemblance r= + .280.^^ Thus there is a very pro- 

 nounced similarity in stature between husband and wife.^^ This is 

 made clear by diagram 2, which shows the empirical and the (smoothed) 

 mean statures of wives of husbands of different heights. 



2. Oilier Bodily Characters 

 Data for physical characters other than stature are few;^^ the only 



" From Mr. Galton 's ' ' Family Eecords, ' ' Pearson found the resemblance for 

 man and wife to be +.09 ± .05, but between fathers and mothers of adult 

 children, as in the case of his own material, it was + .18 ± .02. Considering 

 the smallness of Mr. Galton 's pioneer series, the results are not in bad agreement. 



"Gallon's series of data ("English Men of Science," pp. 22-24, 1895) for 

 the parents of English scientific men is too small (embracing only 62 cases) to 

 give conclusive results for assortative mating. It indicates, however, no tend- 

 ency towards contrast. 



"I have omitted Galton 's ("English Men of Science," p. 21, 1895) data 

 for the "figure" of 71 pairs of parents of English scientific men, since the 



