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to have a cephalic index of 82.92/ The immigrant Jews from 

 that country had a cephalic of 82.82, nearly the same as that 

 found by Pittard in the indigenous population, the difference in 

 one unit may possibly be accounted for by the fact that the 

 measurements on Jews were taken on immigrants who, as we 

 have seen are, as a rule, slightly more dolichocephalic. For the 

 Jewish and non-Jewish population in Hungary the data are 

 scanty. Steinberg found 54 S:;ckiers in Transylvania to be 

 mesocephalic (cephalic index 81.4), while 69 Magyars were 

 hyperbrachycephalic (cephalic index 87.8)^ and Janko's measure- 

 ments of 84 Szeklers gave an average index of 84.5. It will 

 be seen that with such scanty and contradicting materials it is 

 impossible to draw any conclusions. The Jews from that 

 country had an average cephalic index ot 82.45. 



Considering that the cephalic index of the races in eastern 

 Europe is almost uniformly confined within the limits of four 

 units, 80 to 84, within the limits of personal error of observa- 

 tion and calculation of the observer, it must be agreed that the 

 headform of the Jews agrees closely with that of the non-Jewish 

 races and peoples in that region of Europe. This is confirmed 

 by a close study of the figures presented in Table XXIX, 

 showing the distribution of the classes of headforms in Jews and 

 non-Jews in various eastern European countries where materials 

 suitable for comparison are available. Thus longheaded indi- 

 viduals, with a cephalic index less than jZ, are found among 

 the Jews in the following order : 5.98 percent in Little-Russia, 

 7.T percent in Galicia, 9.38 percent in Poland, 10.66 in Rou- 

 mania, and 14 percent in Lithuania and White-Russia. Among 

 the indigenous races in these countries the order is as follows : 

 3.79 percent among the Little- Russians, 5.1 1 among the Poles 

 in Galicia (8.15 among the Ruthenians in that country), 8.80 

 among the Letto-Lithuanians and White-Russians, 10 percent 

 among the Roumanians, and 19.9 among the Russian-Poles. 



' Bassanovitch finds an average index of 77.5 in 106 Roumanian immigrants in 

 Bulgaria ; Himmel, 86.3 in 200 Roumanian soldiers in BukoM'ina, and Weisbach 

 found them to be hyperbrachycephalic, 26 individuals in Transylvania averaged 

 87.2. 



^Quoted from Weisbach, Korpermessungen, etc., pp. 201 and 227. 



