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in height, and the Jewesses from that country, 12.15 percent. In 

 Lithuania and White-Russia we find tall women among the Letto 

 Lithuanians to the extent of 20.75 percent, among the White- 

 Russians 24. 1 1 percent, and the Jewesses from this region of 

 Russia show 16.5 percent; and among the Little-Russians, who 

 are known among the tallest Slavonians, the Jewesses have 20 

 percent of persons over 157 cm. in height, perhaps because the 

 Gentiles here have 37.45 percent of tall women. 



It thus appears that notwithstanding the fact that we deal here 

 with only a limited number of observations, measurements of 

 only 661 Jewesses being available, still the results confirm the 

 conclusions reached when studying the men. Their stature de- 

 pends greatly on the stature of the indigenous population of the 

 country of their birth. Wherever the Gentiles are short of 

 stature, the Jews also are short, and the reverse. 



