102 OBSEEVATIONS AND MEASUREMENTS ACADEMY MEMBERS [Memo {vol N xxiit 



General comparison — Measurements — Continued 



Foot: 



Length 



Breadth 



Index 



Foot module-stature ratio 



Members of the Academy 



Old Americans 



26. 30 

 9. 47 

 36. 

 10. 21 



Subjects 

 55 

 55 

 55 

 55 



Not old Americans 



26. 45 



9. 57 



36. 18 



10.28 



Subjects 

 22 

 22 

 22 

 22 



Old Americans at 

 large (laboratory series) 



Subjects 

 245 

 245 

 245 

 245 



1 Figures used throughout this table are for subjects 60 and under, unless otherwise indicated. 



> Entire series. 



' Entire series, no age limit. 



* Entire series, except the mountaineers. 



8 No age limit; measurement taken only on those with normal hair line. 

 8 Laboratory and Virginian series; 118 Tennessee Highlanders give 6.57. 

 ' No age limit: measurement taken only on those with normal hair line. 

 8 Entire series, except mountaineers. 



• Entire series, no age limit. 



Old Americans within and outside of the Academy 



Same or nearly so 



Old American academicians exceed in- 



Old Americans at large 

 exceed in — 



Skin 



Hair color. 

 Eye color. 



In medium shades. 

 In dark browns 



Forehead height (visually) . 



Forehead slope 



Supraorbital ridges 



Eyeslits (inclination) 



Cheekbones 



Nasal root depression 



Nose: 



Shape 



Septum 



In high. 



In above medium.. 



In all respects 



In above medium.. 



In convex 



In horizontal- 



Alveolar prognathy. 



Lips, thickness 



Chin: 



Form 



Prominence 



Angles of lower jaw. 



In all respects 



In above medium. 



Medium. 



Medium pigmentation 



Darks 



Medium and dark blues, 

 grays, mixed. 



Medium forms 



Sloping 



Slight and submedium 



Slight to submedium 



Medium to deep 



Straight and concavoconvex.. 

 Moderately to markedly in- 

 clined downward. 



Submedium and thin 



Rounded 



Medium 



Decidedly subdued to sub 

 medium. 



Darker pigmentation. 

 Lights and reds. 

 Light blues, greenish, 



light browns. 

 Submedium forms. 

 Medium. 

 Do. 



Do. 



Submedium. 



Concave. 

 Inclined upward. 



Medium. 



Square. 



Above medium. 

 Do. 



MEASUREMENTS 



Stature 



Weight 



Weight-stature. 



Height sitting-stature ratio. 



Arm spread-stature ratio 



Head: 



Length 



Breadth 



Height 



Module 



About equal 



Equal 



Higher by nearly Yz inch ' 



Larger by nearly 14 pounds 2 . 

 Larger by 40 grams per centi- 

 meter. ' 

 Slightly higher 



Larger 2 . 

 do. 2 



.do. 



For footnotes, see end of table. 



