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76'2 and for women 77*3 (the measures after Broca) — thus 

 greater for women and on the whole not little greater than that 

 found for the East-Greenlanders. But so great differences be- 

 tween the results of the different observers and so great 

 distances from maximum to minimum in the series of exami- 

 nations of the same observer partly indicate very great individual 

 differences, but also that measuring of the dimensions of the 

 nose is a difficult thing, perhaps on the whole scarcely possible 

 to execute with sufficient exactness to give a trustworthy im- 

 pression of the form of the nose. 



The measures are also so small that errors in themselves 

 insignificant may give quite misleading results, and to him who 

 has tried a few times it will soon appear, how difficult it is to 

 measure exactly the distance between the outermost points of 

 the wings of the nose. Partly the wings of the nose are very 

 easily pressed together, and partly with many people an invo- 

 luntary play of the wings of the nose is found, so that these 

 do not take up the same position in a constancy. At any rate 

 1 have often by repeated measurings of the same individual 

 obtained different sizes of the breadth of the nose, certainly 

 only slight differences, but yet sufficient to influence the result. 

 Though not believing that any greater significance may be 

 ascribed to the measurings of the nose, I will just mention 

 the considerably higher nasal index, found by Søren Hansen for 

 the West-Greenlanders than by me for the East-Greenlanders, 

 of measurings executed in the same way. Certainly my mea- 

 surings are less numerous, but yet sufficient to make it impro- 

 bable that the great difference might be due to a mere accident, 

 and as the crossing of the West-Greenlanders with European 

 elements must be thought to have worked towards a lower nasal 

 index, it is not quite out of the way to think that the found 

 fact might suggest a difference of tribe. — In my notes I 

 have everywhere to the measures affixed short remarks on the 

 form of the nose. According to these it is very variable as 



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