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is to write a figure 6 with a long tail (Fig. i); now remove the 

 turn of the twist as in fig. 2, and much of the Jewishness dis- 

 appears ; and it vanishes entirely when we draw the continua- 

 tion horizontally as in fig. 3. We may conclude then that, as 

 regards the Jewish nose, that it is more the Jewish nostril than 

 the nose itself which goes to form the characteristic Jewish ex- 

 pression." ^ Ripley agrees with Jacobs on this point, and con- 

 cludes that next to dark hair and eyes and a swarthy skin, the 

 nostrils are the most distinctive feature among the Jews.^ It is 

 to be regretted that during this investigation of the somatology 

 of the Jews, the present writer has taken no statistics of the fre- 

 quency of this so-called nostrility, and is not in a position to 

 either confirm or deny the contention. As it is, it seems that 

 the " nostrility " is mostly found among those Jews who have 

 arched noses, and is only rarely observed in those with straight 

 or snub noses, and that among the inhabitants of Asia Minor 

 and the Caucasus, who as was already mentioned, have arched 

 noses, this nostrility is also very frequent. 



* J. Jacobs, "On the Racial Characteristics of Modern Jews," Jonrn. An- 

 thropol. Institute, 1 886, XV, pp. 23-62. 



^Wm. Z. Ripley, "The Races of Europe," p. 395. 



