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RUTH SAWTELL WALLIS 



The three indices used for ascertaining the degree of harmony in this 

 Western European group were the cephalic, the upper facial, and the nasal. 

 The measurements were taken according to Martin's method and Martin's 

 divisions of the indices were used for isolating types (1). This employ- 

 ment of three arbitrary divisions does not imply a belief that these are three 

 neat compartments; it is merely a rough sorting device which has been 

 supplemented by correlation. 



These Western European Nordics as the means show (table 1) were a 

 relatively long-headed group, just on the border of dolichocephaly. Their 

 faces were distinctly mesene, neither broad nor narrow; their noses leptor- 

 rhine, narrow but at the upper limit of that subdivision. They correspond, 

 then, in these characters to Scheldt's typical Anglo-Saxon of the British 



TABLE 1 

 (153 males, 85 females) 



Isles (3). Each index, however, is distributed over almost the entire field 

 of normal human development. The cephalic index ranges from 66 to 91, 

 the facial from 41 to 63, the nasal from 37 to 64. 



And how are these traits combined in the individual? The amount of 

 symmetry, the extent to which narrow, medium and broad noses tend to 

 appear in company with faces and heads of harmonic form was measured 

 in two ways. First, from the 153 males and 85 females, the number and 

 percentage of individuals judged harmonic by inclusion in corresponding 

 divisions of the three indices were calculated; second, to include cases 

 actually symmetrical but thrown into divergent classes by the arbitrary 

 division line, correlation coefficients were calculated for the three traits, 

 (tables 2 and 5). Less than one quarter of the males and only one-fifth of 



