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much competition into official positions that 

 give them merely an ex officio place in Who's 

 Who in America. However, the percentage of 

 such persons who are admitted merely because 

 of official position must be very small indeed 

 and could not very materially afifect the re- 

 sults ^ On the other hand, the increase in the 

 case of Dr. Cattell's list of scientists is prob- 

 ably due to the fact that the number of resi- 

 dents is augmented 15% by the inclusion of the 

 foreign-born great scientists, who are far more 

 likely to be found in the centers of population 

 than elsewhere. Besides, the scientist is de- 

 pendent upon the laboratories and other costly 

 equipment met with in cities, and that cannot 

 easily be taken into the wilderness as can, for 

 example, the implements of the author. Hence 

 it is to be expected that the scientist will seek 

 the centers of population more than will other 

 men of note. On the whole, therefore, it is 

 clear that if there is any movement of noted 

 men in contrast with the usual drift of popu- 

 lation it is away from rather than toward the 

 more densely populated states. Certainly there 

 can have been no such selection toward popu- 

 lous states as would explain the greater pro- 

 1 Who's Who in America, p. ix of introduction. 



