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AVERAGED SIZED NOSES 



These pictures (1-27, Fij?s. 8, 9, 10) are arranged in the order of the sizes of their noses accord- 

 ing to the combined opinions of ten different people. Only the first seven were adjudged long 

 or large. (Fig. 9.) 



proportions of the features. But if we 

 classify the noses alone, by the method 

 of general impressions, into three 

 grades, just as we have done for the 

 celebrated, famous and distinguished, 

 we find the large or long-nosed variety 

 comparatively rare, somewhat rarer 

 than the small or short, and much 

 rarer than the average. 



The first random test made on the 

 first material available happened to be 

 on a group of faces or employees in a 

 large department store in Montreal 

 (Scroggie's, 1914). Out of thirty-five 

 men, middle aged and young, five 

 appeared to belong in the large or 

 long group, twenty in the middle, and 

 ten in the small or short. The inde- 



