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These figures show that the women display a greater tendency 

 to brachycephaly, as is also seen by their average cephalic index. 

 5.98 percent of the Jewesses had a cephalic index of less than 

 yS, while in Jews it reached 10.25 percent ; brachycephalic 

 heads, with an index of 84 and above, on the other hand, are 

 found in the women 34.72 percent as against only 24.45 percent 

 in the men. The proportion of mesocephalic heads is about the 

 same in both sexes. 



The seriation in Table XXX and the curv^e plotted on 

 diagram 6 show the maximum frequency of occurrence (14.48 

 percent of all the women measured), to be at the cephalic index 

 of 81. Women with an index of 82 were only found 10.57 

 percent, while the indices of 83 and 84 are again well repre- 

 sented, 1 3. 1 and 12.18 percent respectiv^ely. A double apex 

 is thus produced in the curve, one culminates at the index of 8 i 



Table XXX. 



Cephalic Index in 435 Jewesses. 



Cephalic Index. 



Number. 



Percent. 



Cephalic Index. 

 82 . 



Number. 



Percent. 



71 



I 



0.23 



46 



10.57 



72 



I 



0.23 



83 



57 



13.10 



73 



— 



— 



84 



53 



12.18 



74 



— 



— 



85 



29 



6.67 



75 



3 



0.69 



86 



28 



6.44 



76 



12 



2.75 



87 



15 



3-45 



77 



9 



2.07 



88 



8 



1.84 



78 



26 



5.98 



89 



10 



2.29 



79 



19 



4-37 



90 



6 



1.38 



80 



47 



10.80 



91 



2 



0.46 



81 



63 



14.48 





















Total. 



435 



99-99 



and the other at 83-84, with a depression at the index of 82. 

 This double apex is of significance, showing a greater variability 

 of the headform of the women as compared with that of men. 

 This phenomenon was already observed in our preliminary com- 

 munication, where a lesser number of observations was reported. 

 It is also to be noted in the anthropological literature of the 

 Jews where measurements of heads of women are recorded. 

 From Elkind's measurements of Polish Jewesses it is to be seen 



