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Average 

 Length of Head. Authority! 



200 Polish Jews 184 mm. Elkind 



438 Little- Russian Jews 185.4 Talko-Hryncewicz 



69 Lithuanian Jews 187.3 " " 



413 Galician Jews (Series I) 183 Majer and Kopernicki 

 (Series II) 186 



100 Russian Jews 188 Blechman 



100 South Russian Jews 183 Weissenberg 



.139 White-Russian Jews 183 Yakowenko 



67 Russian Jews 187 Dybowsky 



It will be observed that the length of the head among the 

 Eastern Europen Jews varies in the various series of measure- 

 ments, from 183 to 188 mm. As will appear hereafter in places 

 where the non-Jewish population has a longer antero-posterior 

 diameter of the head, the Jews show the same characteristic. 

 It can consequently be stated that if any intermixture of Jews 

 with their neighbors has taken place, we could not expect that 

 this should be shown up in a striking manner in the seriation of 

 the measurements of their heads. The difference is too small 

 to produce any appreciable effect on the average. 



From the measurements of the Jewish immigrants in New 

 York City the following are the averages of the length of the 

 head of Jews from various countries. Galician Jews, i86 mm.; 

 Polish, 188 mm.; Lithuanian and White-Russian, 190 mm.; 

 Little-Russian, 188 mm.; Roumanian, 187 mm.; Hungarian, 

 188 mm.; United States, 190 mm. These figures show that 

 this measurement is larger in the immigrants than in Jews living 

 in eastern Europe. There Majer and Kopernicki found the 

 length of the head to average 183 mm.; in Poland Elkind 

 found in Jews in Warsaw an average of 184 mm.; in Lithuania 

 it was 187 according to Talko-Hryncewicz, and in Little-Russia, 



1 These figures are taken from the following works : A. N. Elkind, "The Jews," 

 Memoirs of the Society of Fi-iends of A' atural Science, AiitJiropoI. and Et/inoi^raf'/iy, 

 Vol. XXII, 1902 ; J. Talko-Hryncewicz, '* Charakteristyka fizyczna ludnosci zydow- 

 skiej Litwy i Rusi," Zbior loiad. do antropoL kraj.. Vol. XVI, 1892 ; Majer and 

 Kopernicki, loc. cit. ; B. Blechman, " Ein Beitrag zur Anthropologic der Juden," 

 Inaug. -Dissert. Dorpat, 1882; Weissenberg, " Die siidrussischen Juden," Archiv 

 fur Anthropologie, Vol. XXIII, 1895 5 M. G. Yakowenko, "Materials for the An- 

 thropology of the Jews," St. Petersburg, 1898 (in Russian); L. Stieda, " Ein 

 Beitrag zur Anthropology der Juden," Archiv filr AnthropoL, Vol. XIV. 



