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The Journal of Heredity 



RELATION OF FAME TO NOSE SIZES 



The two lines which slope downward from left to right show the distribution of nose sizes 

 among^the so-called "great men" of history. The lines that point up in the middle show a 

 different distribution. The latter are adapted from the Canadian "Who's Who." The figures 

 at the left are percentages. (Fig. 7.) 



No. 2. The .second type of line is 

 like a long sloping roof, higfi at the 

 left and low at the right. This depicts 

 the percentages from the distribution 

 among the first 147 so called "great 

 men," — astronomers, mathematicians, 

 orators, statesmen, and great captains 

 of industr\'. The two opinions agree 

 very closeK' and give for the "great 

 men" a preponderating weight to the 

 long or large-nosed type — greater than 

 the sum of the other two. The first 

 opinion gives in percentages 61-32-7; 

 the second opinion gives 57-40-3. 



Another test was then made by a 

 somewhat different method. The basis 

 of the test was a group of photogravure 

 portraits cut out of current popular 

 magazines. These were taken at ran- 

 dom consecutively. All pictures were 

 included, except a \ery few that were 

 too small or too vague. They were 

 then classified into the three grades. 

 The number of large or long noses 

 came out thirty, the number of aver- 

 age 64; and the number of small or 

 short was ten. 



Now which of these three nose groups 

 contained the greatest propf)rtion of 

 eminence? In this instance I have 



not put the question of eminence, 

 greatness or intellectual superiority to 

 any strict tests, but have made the 

 test into being widely known or 

 "famous." Out of the first group 

 thirty, "large or long" I submit the 

 following thirteen names as being fa- 

 mous or at least widely known in the 

 United States. They are arranged in 

 the accidental order of their inclusion: 

 Lord Strathcona, Senator Gorman, 

 Brander Matthews, (icorge Randolph 

 Chester, Lord Bryce, Goldwin Smith, 

 Sir William Ramsay, Dr. Morton 

 (Demonstratorof anaesthesia, by ether), 

 Mr. McClure (of McClures Magazine, 

 etc.). Senator La Follette, Senator 

 Quay, G. Marconi, Rudyard Kipling. '^ 



Out of the si.xty-four in the group of 

 average no.ses the following are sub- 

 mitted as famous names, or at least 

 wideh- known in the L^nited States: 

 Gilbert Chesterton, Sir George Dar- 

 win, Theodore Roosevelt, A. Lawrence 

 Lowell, Lord Reading, Robert Lansing, 

 Rev. "Billy" Sunday, Joseph Conrad, 

 Mark Hanna, George Harvey, Vil- 

 hjalmur Stefansson, George Westing- 

 house. 



Here there are twelve names, but 



* Kipling is on ihr hordf-r line as to size of nose. 



