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FISHBERG 



sians have an average width of i 5 i mm. (Talko-Hryncewicz), 

 and the Jews from that country 154 mm.; in Little Russia the 

 indigenous population, according to Talko-Hryncewicz, have an 

 average width of the head of i 5 3 mm., and the Jews from that 

 country average 155 mm.; finally the Roumanians measure 154 

 on the average (Pittard) and the Jews 153 mm. There is thus 

 not evident any relation between the measurement of the width 

 of the head of the Jews and that of the indigenous races of 

 eastern Europe among which they have lived. The differences 

 are almost insignificant, being less than the chances of error 

 would lead one to expect. There is however a striking simi- 

 larity in the average values as a whole. The fluctuations in 

 these values is among the Gentile races from 152 to 154 mm., 

 and among the Jew^s from 153 to 155 mm., practically the 

 same. It cannot be expected that any influence one group 

 may have had on the other should be evident from a study 

 of the width of the head, because the values are practically 



uniform in magnitude. 



Table XXII. 



Width of the Head of 435 Jewesses. 



Width of the 



Number 



head (in mm.). 





I3I-I32 



I 



133-134 



I 



135-136 



4 



137-138 



2 



139-140 



16 



I4I-I42 



32 



I 43- '44 



43 



145-146 



53 



147-148 



78 



149-150 



74 



Percent. 



0.23 

 0.23 

 0.92 

 0.46 

 3.68 



7-35 



9.89 



12.18 



17-93 

 17.01 



Width of the 

 head (in mm. ). 



15I-I52 

 153-154 

 155-156 

 157-158 



159-159 

 161-162 



163-164 



165-166 



Total. 



Nu'taber. 



50 

 38 

 21 

 12 

 8 

 I 



Percent. 



11.49 

 8.74 

 4.83 

 2.76 

 1.84 

 0.23 



0.23 



435 



100.00 



The width of the head of the women w^as 149 mm. on the 

 average, or 9.77 percent of their average stature. The maxi- 

 mum width was 165, and the minimum, 131 mm., a difference 

 of 24 mm. or 16. i percent of the average, which is much smaller 

 than that of the men. The standard deviation was 5.015 ; the 

 probable error 0.162, both about the same as in men, consider- 

 ing that the number of women measured was much smaller than 



