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Such defects, therefore, have not influenced materially the average of 
the series, and this may safely be used for comparisons. 
The average of the chin-nasion height in the Kharga men is 11.35 
cm. ; 19 Jews measured by Weisbach (1. c.) gave the mean of 12.6, 26 
Roumanians 11.7, 25 northern Slavs n.6 and 20 Magyars n.i cm., 
while a large series of Alsatians and Germans gave Pfitzner (1. c.) the 
mean of approximately 12.5 cm. No data, regrettably, on the Valley 
Egyptians are available for comparison, Chantre having measured 
the face height from chin to ophryon and Myers that from upper 
alveolar point to nasion. The range of variation of the measurement 
in the Kharga men, though less than that of the chin-hair line facial 
height, is still relatively large; it extends over 43 mm., which 
amounts to 0.189 P er umt of the average; but 85.4 per cent of the 
cases are within the limits of 10.5-12 cm. The detailed distribution 
of the cases shows two well separated modes, which condition in the 
somewhat condensed curve (fig. 8) manifests itself in a distinct 
shouldering, quite like that which appears in the curve of distribu- 
tion of the physiognomic facial height (fig. 6). 
KHARGA OASIS, MEN: HEIGHT OF FACE, CHIN TO A POINT 
CORRESPONDING TO NASION 
Number of observations : 150. 
Average: 11.35 cm. 1 (ist 50: 11.5; 2d 50: 11.25; 3d 50: 11.3 em.). 
Median : 11.4 cm. Modes : 10.9 and n.6 cm. 
Minimum : 9.6 cm. Maximum : 15.9 cm. 
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7 
1 Probable error = 0.035 > standard deviation, <r, 0.6366, 0.025 ; co- 
efficient of variability, C, = 5.634, it 0.219. 
