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Czechs, Poles, Ruthenians, Little-Russians, White-Russians, 

 etc., the rule is, the larger the percentage of brunettes, having 

 dark hair and eyes, the larger the proportion of tall and round- 

 headed individuals.^ A glance at the ingenious maps prepared 

 by Ripley ^ showing stature and cephalic index in Eastern 

 Europe, confirms this graphically. The Slovaks, Little-Rus- 

 sians, Serbo-Croats, Servians, etc., are taller, and also more 

 brachycephalic than the Poles, Great-Russians, etc. Another 

 confirmation of this view is to be found among Great- Russians 

 in Transbaikalia, Siberia, who emigrated thither in the Seven- 

 teenth Century, and are considered to have preserved their 

 Slavic type more free from intermixture. They are taller, and 

 also more brachycephalic than their brethren in European 

 Russia.' 



All this evidence shows that the " Slavonic type " does not 

 at all agree with the so-called " North European " or "Aryan" 

 type, in which fair complexion is combined with tall stature and 

 dolichocephaly, but that the reverse appears to be true — tall 

 stature is combined with wide heads and brunettes and the re- 

 verse. We may consequently look for the cause of the blond- 

 ness among twelve percent of the modern Jews as possibly due 

 to Slavic intermixture. From all available data we find that 

 the interrelation of stature, pigmentation and head-form, are 

 similar to those which are normal in the Slavic populations 

 among which these Jews have lived for centuries. 



ly. V. Vorob'eff, "On the Study of the Anthropology of the Slavic Population 

 of Russia," Russian Anthropological Journal, 1902, No. 2, p. 106; and also 

 "The Great Russians," ibid., 1900, No. I, pp. 43-82. 



6 " The Races of Europe," pp. 340 and 350. 



2 J. D. Talko-Hryncewicz, "The Anthropology of the Great-Russians of Trans- 

 baikalia," Tomsk, 1898 (in Russian). 



