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the cephalic index of 8i in the curve for the 1,113 Jews in 

 Eastern European Jews, may be explained by this or by chance 

 variation. This is probably also the cause of the elevation of 

 the curve for all the 2,641 Jews at the index of 80. 



Table XXV. 



Cephalic Index in 1,113 Jews in Eastern Europe. 



Cephalic Index. 



Number. 



70 



I 



71 



— 



72 



I 



73 



5 



74 



4 



75 



9 



76 



16 



77 



Z1 



78 



52 



79 



88 



80 



126 



81 



127 



82 



15s 



83 



128 



Percent. 



Cephalic Index. Number. 



0.09 



0.09 



0.44 



0.36 



0.81 



1.44 



3-32 



4.67 



7.91 



11.32 



II. 41 



13.92 



11.50 



84 



85 

 86 



87 

 88 



89 

 90 



91 

 92 



93 

 94 

 95 



112 



96 

 72 



34 

 22 

 II 



X 7 



r 4 

 1 2 



S3 



Percent. 



10.06 

 8.63 

 6.47 

 3.06 

 1.97 

 1. 00 

 0.63 

 0.36 

 0.18 

 0.27 



0.09 



Total. 



1,113 



100.00 



Before proceeding to discuss these curves as a test of the 

 purity of race we want to point out one peculiar feature of these 

 two series of observations. It will be seen that the immigrant 

 Jews in New York have 10.25 percent of persons with heads of 

 the dolichocephalic type (cephalic index less than 78), while the 

 Jews in Eastern Europe have only 6.54 percent of such indi- 

 viduals. On the other hand, 32.72 percent of Jews in Eastern 

 Europe have brachycephalic heads (cephalic index 84 and 

 more) while those who have left Europe and emigrated to the 

 United States have only 24.45 percent of people with this 

 cranial type. The difference is more striking when observed on 

 diagram 7. The curve for the Jews in New York City is seen 

 toward the left, while the one for Jews in Eastern Europe is 

 moved to the right. All this tends to show that the immigrant 

 Jews are more longheaded than the average of the people whom 

 they leave behind in their native county. Lapouge, Ammon, 

 Ripley and others will see in this a further proof for the theory 

 that great cities serve, for some obscure reason, as an attraction to 



