THE FOKEHEAD HRDLICKA 



411 



It is regrettable that there are no comparable data on the Asiatic 

 yellow-browns, on the Negrillo and Negrito, and on the Australian. 



HEIGHT OF FOREHEAD IN DIFFERENT BRANCHES OF THE WHITE 



PEOPLE 



Thanks to the measurements taken since 1910 under my direction 

 by medical members of the United States Health Serv'ice at Ellis 

 Island, there are now available data on 14 nationalities of male 

 white immigrants. These data include the height of the forehead, 

 and the means of these, on the whole, are remarkably uniform, as 

 well as closely related to those obtained by myself on the old Ameri- 

 cans; yet there are also interesting differences. The absolute meas- 

 urement, and its per mille relation to stature, follows : 



Height of forehead in Old Americans and in immigrants 



Absolute measurements 



Height of forehead relatively to stature 

 (S = 1,000) 



Centi- 

 meters 



Armenians (25) 



Hungarians (50) 



French (64) _.. 



Russians (50) 



English (10) 



Greeks (50) 



Rumanians (50) 



Croatians (50) 



Poles (50) 



Northern Italians (50) 



Russian Jews (50) 



Southern Italians (50) 



Oermans (63)-.. 



Old Americans (510).. 

 Irish (32) 



Armenians 



English 



Russians 



French _. 



Old Americans. -- 



Greeks 



Croatians 



Hungarians 



Poles 



Germans 



Northern Italians 



Rumanians 



Irish ., 



Russian Jews 



Southern Italians. 



35.9 

 37.3 

 37.4 

 37.4 

 37.8 

 37.9 

 37.9 

 38.0 

 38.2 

 38.3 

 38.4 

 38.5 

 39.3 

 39.7 

 40.1 



The lowest forehead, and that both absolutely as well as relatively 

 to stature, is shown by our group of Armenians, and the differences 

 are large enough to be significant. The Armenian unit possesses also 

 the smallest head of the 14 immigrant groups,^" but their forehead 

 is low even in relation to the smaller head. This may be an accidental 

 showing. The Armenians are renowned as the shrewdest tradesmen 

 of the Near East. If their forehead is low it must be, it would seem, 

 of the nalure of a localized racial character. 



The next poorest showing is that of the Hungarians, but this is 

 rather close to that of other white groups. 



At the top of the series of forehead heights stand in absolute 

 measurement the Irish and the Old Americans; relatively to stature, 

 the short Russian Jews and the Southern Italians. There is a 

 suggestion in this tliat the present lowered stature of these two 

 groups is a secondary ac(|uisiti()n ; the slight old Negro admixture in 

 both the Southern Italians and the Jews could hardly alone account 



' See my Old Americans, p. 235. 



