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The relation of pigmentation to stature has been studied by 

 Pantukhof, who found that in Odessa, Russia, the Jews who had 

 dark hair and eyes are of short stature, while those who have 

 gray or blue eyes and fair hair are taller/ The same observer 

 reports that among the Jews in Caucasia he found that those 

 who are tall in stature have usually light eyes ; those who have 

 brown eyes were 161.7 cm. in height, while those who have 

 blue or gray eyes averaged 164.4 cm.^ On the other hand^ 

 Ammon found no relation between blond hair, blue eyes, and 

 dolichocephaly among the Jewish recruits in Baden, Germany. 

 Elkind reports the same of the Jews in Russian Poland, and 

 finds that those who have dark hair and eyes are even taller 

 than those with fair hair and eyes."^ Our own measurements 

 confirm this more strongly, because they are based on a larger 

 number of observations. 



Taking the relation of stature to pigmentation we find no 

 ** Teutonic " or ''Aryan" association : 



Stature. Blond Hair. Dark Hair. 



Short 22.09 23.37 



Below the average 31-39 30-o;^ 



Above the average 25.59 27.60 



Tall 20.93 19.00 



Average stature 163.8 164.6 



From these figures it is to be seen that the dark-haired Jews 

 were taller, 164.6 cm. in height, than those who had blond 

 hair, the latter averaging only 163.8 cm. in height. The pro- 

 portion of tall and short people is about the same in both the 

 blond-haired as in the dark-haired individuals. The same is 

 seen from the figures on page 281, where the relation of the 

 color of the eyes to stature is given. The average height of 

 those having brown or black hair is 165. i cm. as against only 



1 " Semitic Types," Proc. Russian Anthropological Society, pp. 26-30, St. 

 Petersburg, 1889 (in Russian). 



'^ Idem., "Observations anthropologiques au Caucase " (in Russian), pp. 37-38,. 

 Tiflis, 1893. 



3 Otto Ammon, Ziir Anthropologie der Badener, pp. 663, 664, Jena, 1899. 



* D. N. Elkind, "The Jews," Memoirs of the Soc. of Friends of Natural Sci- 

 ence, AnthropoL and Ethnography (in Russian) CIV, 1902, pp. 82-83. 



