38 OBSERVATIONS AND MEASUREMENTS ACADEMY MEMBERS lMEMOI [vo? xxin, 

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The figures corroborate what has been shown by the module alone. The picture is not 

 perfect, due to the fact that in many of the academicians the stature, which by itself influences 

 the size of the head, has been somewhat reduced through advancing age while the head re- 

 mained without appreciable change. Nevertheless, when the data are analyzed in the light of 

 what is known about the correlation of the head size with stature, as the latter rises a certain plus 

 remains throughout in favor of the members of the Academy, just as it remained for the more 

 cultured old Americans at large when compared with the mountaineers of like ancestry. 27 



There is a means of testing the above important deduction. Of the 150 members of the 

 Academy included in our series, 82 at the time of the examination were 60 or under, hence pre- 

 sumably materially unaffected as yet in their stature by senility. Of these, 80 furnish suitable 

 data on both the stature and the three head diameters. Compared with a group of similar stat- 

 ures from among the "laboratory" and Virginia series of old Americans at large, the academicians 

 show the conditions given underneath. The advantage remains with the members. 



Table 31. — Size of head in relation to stature 



" The Old Americans, p. 189. 



