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of fair hair and 30.9 percent of fair eyes/ while Jacobs found 21.3 

 percent of the Sephardim in London had blue eyes, which is 

 more than among the Ashkenazim in that city who had only 

 1 1 . 1 percent of fair eyed. 



All these data tend to show that there is a great diversity of 

 types of Jews when their stature and craniology is considered ; 

 but when looked at from the standpoint of pigmentation, they 

 present a more or less uniform type — wherever data are obtain- 

 able it is found that about ten to fifteen percent have fair hair, 

 and over thirty percent fair eyes. In other words, morpholog- 

 ical characters which are obtained by the use of the tape and 

 calipers, and which are not influenced to an appreciable extent 

 by the personal equation of the observer depend in the Jews on 

 the same characters peculiar to their non-Jewish neighbors, 

 among whom they have li\'ed for centuries. On the other 

 hand pigmentation, a trait the study of which is subject to the 

 personal equation of the observer (what one living among bru- 

 nettes will call blond, may be called by another observ^er, living 

 among blonds, a brunette) is found uniformly frequent among 

 the Jews in various countries, independent of the frequency in 

 which it is found among the Gentiles among whom they have 

 lived. 



It appeared to the present writer that an anthropological study 

 of the Jews in various countries by one observer, thus greatly 

 eliminating the effects of the personal equation, may contribute 

 to the solution of some of the obscure problems of the origin of 

 certain physical traits of the Jews. It would be quite difficult for 

 one individual to make such an investigation in Europe. Besides 

 the extensive traveling it would entail, it would also be a difficult 

 task to meet with Jews willing to submit to anthropometrical 

 measurements. One has to read Dybowsky's experiences in 

 Minsk, Russia, to be convinced that in eastern Europe the task 

 would prove quite difficult. After paying an agent for procur- 

 ing individuals willing to submit to measurements for a consid- 

 eration, it so happened that one of the Jews measured died sud- 

 denly. This caused an alarm all over the city, the local police 



1 Gliick, loc. cit. 



