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nativity is about the same in each group, ranging from i 5 3 mm. 

 in the Roumanian Jews, 154 in the PoHsh and Lithuanian 

 Jews, to 1 5 5 mm. in all the other groups. When compared 

 with Jews who were measured in eastern Europe, the immi- 

 grants have somewhat wider heads, but the differences are very 

 small, from one to three mm. There is no evidence in these 

 figures of a correspondence of the width of the head of the Jews 

 with that of the Gentiles of the country of their birth. In Galicia 

 the width of the head of the Poles was found to be 152 mm. and 

 of the Ruthenians i 5 3 mm. , that of the Jews is i 5 5 mm. ; in Rus- 

 sian Poland Elkind found the average width of the head of the 

 Poles in Warsaw to be 150 mm. on the average, and that of the 

 Jews is 154 mm.; the Letto- Lithuanians and the White-Rus- 



Table XXL 



Width of the Head in 1,528 Jews According to Nativity. 



Length of Head 

 (in mm ). 



Galicia. 



Poland. 



Lithuania 

 and White- 

 Russia. 



Little- 

 1 Russia. 



Roumania. 



Hungary. 



United 

 States. 



120-130 

 I3I-I32 

 133-134 



— 



— 



— 



— 



— 



0.71 



— 



















— 



— 



— 



135-136 



— 



— 





— 



— 







0.80 



137-138 



0.32 



— 



0.36 



0.45 



— 





— 



139-140 



0.32 



0.63 



0.73 



0.45 



— 



0.71 



0.80 



I4I-I42 



0.65 



2.22 



1.82 



0.45 



— 



— 



0.80 



143-144 



2.63 



2.22 



4-36 



0.91 



2.00 



— 



0.80 



145-146 



7.87 



2.22 



4.73 



3.20 



4.00 



3-57 



1. 61 



147-148 



5-90 



3-17 



9.09 



10.05 



2.00 



7.14 



6.45 



149-150 



7.87 



12.70 



9.82 



6.85 



16.00 



8.57 



11.29 



15I-I52 



15-41 



^3-33 



9.82 



15.98 



12.67 



12.86 



13-72 



153-154 



14.10 



13.96 



17.09 



14.16 



16.67 



12.14 



21.78 



155-156 



13.12 



17.46 



16.37 



13-70 



14.67 



17.86 



11.29 



157-158 



II. 15 



"•75 



13.82 



13-70 



13-33 



15-71 



9.68 



159-160 



8.20 



10.79 



4.00 



8.67 



8.67 



7.86 



14-51 



161-162 



4.92 



4.44 



2.54 



4-57 



7-33 



4 30 



1. 61 



163-164 



3-6i 



2.54 



3-64 



4-57 



2.00 



5.00 



4-84 



165-166 



2-95 



1.90 



1.09 



1.82 



— 



2.86 



— 



167-168 



0.32 



— 



0.73 



— 



— 



0.71 



— 



169-170 



— 



0.32 



— 



0.45 



— 



— 



— 



17I-I72 



0.32 



0.32 



— 



— 



— 



— 



— 



173-174 



0.32 



— 



— 



— 



0.67 



— 



— 



No. observed. 



305 



315 



275 



219 



150 



140 



124 



Average. 



155 



154 



154 



155 



153 



155 



154 



Maximum. 



^3 



171 



168 



170 



174 



168 



164 



Minimum. 



138 



139 



138 



138 



143 



130 



135 



