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MEASUREMENTS 



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TOTAL FACIAL HEIGHT 



This measurement is possible only where the true hair line is preserved. In the members 

 of the Academy in a large majority of cases, it was seen, there has been more or less loss of hair 

 over the forehead, and in consequence the measurement was impracticable. There are but 32 

 records of the dimension, 25 on the old Americans in the Academy and 7 on the others, numbers 

 too small to give an adequate picture of conditions. The data, whatever they may be worth, 

 are as follows: 



Table 36. — Physiognomic height of the face 



Members of the Academy 



Old Americans 



Not old Americans 



Old Americans 

 at large (except 

 mountain- 

 eers) 



Subjects 



Average 



Minimum 



Maximum 



Range of variation in percent of the average 



<T 



cv 



25 



18. 90 ±0. 14 



16. 8 



21. 6 



25.40 



1. 07 ±0. 10 



5. 66 ±0. 54 



19 ±0. 23 



17. 4 



20. 6 



16. 84 



0. 91 ±0. 16 



4. 81 ±0. 87 



443 



18.81 



16. 1 



21. 2 



27. 11 



1 In 296 dratted "engineers." Southern States, old American, 18.96- 



There are but very slight differences, and those probably are associated with differences 

 in stature. 



TOTAL FACIAL HEIGHT VERSUS STATURE 



Taking 443 old Americans at large (laboratory and Southeastern States series), we obtain 

 the total-face-height: stature ratio of 10.76 (Southeastern States alone 10.87), while in the 32 

 academicians it is 10.70. Relatively to stature therefore the total facial height is slightly smaller 

 in the members than in the outside old Americans. This difference would be even more marked 

 if the dimension could be compared in the members of the Academy with their stature before it 

 was affected by age. The indications are therefore that in the academicians the face is slightly 

 less developed than it is in the old Americans at large. The conditions will come out with more 

 clearness when the lower facial height is considered. 



FACIAL BREADTH 



The maximum bizygomatic diameter was measurable on all the members of the Academy 

 and yielded the results shown in the next tables. 



