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The Journal of Heredity 



CANADIAN SOLDIERS 



The soldiers in this and tlie two following illustrations were photographed by a well-known 

 Canadian photographer while they were on their way overseas They naturally came from all 

 over Canada, and are rejjresentative men. The pictures were selected at random from a very 

 large collection, anfl out of a group of forty-one, those shown above have been adjudged by the 

 classifiers to have one of the frecpient attributes of mental superiorit\ — a nose longer or larger 

 than the average. If, therefore, any reader sees his own |)icture here towards the head of the 

 list, he cannot take offense! (Fig. ^>.) 



show this variation, although tht'>' an- 

 doubtless selected for physical fitness. 

 Let us limit our discussion to the 

 nose, by way of illustration. If we 

 examine a large number of faces, or 



photographs of the truly average class, 

 say wage-earners who in 1913 earned 

 about two to three dollars a day. and in 

 1919 about five or ten, we will find a 

 \ery great variation in shapes and 



