140 Oil the Inheritance of the Mental and Moral Characters in Man 
I think we, therefore, may safely conchide that for the measurable physical 
characters in man, we have a quite definite regression line, and that it ascends 
1 in 2. 
TABLE I. 
Inheritance of the Physical Characters. 
Eecords of Adults. 
Correlation. 
Brotliers. 
Sisters. 
Brothers and Sisters. 
Stature... 
■51 
•54 
■55 
Span ... 
•55 
•56 
•53 
Cubit ... 
•49 
•51 
•44 
Eye Colour 
•52 
•45 
•46 
Mean 
•52 
•51 
•49 
TABLE IL 
Head Measurements on School Chilclrcn. 
Brot 
ler-Brotlier. 
Sister-Sister. 
Brother-Sister. 
Characters. 
Mean. 
S.D. 
Corre- 
lation. 
Mean. 
Corre- 
Mt 
an. 
S.D. 
Corre- 
lation. 
lation. 
B. 
S. 
B. 
S. 
Cephalic Index. . 
78-92 
3 314 
•4861 
78-29 
3-988 
•5360 
78-72 
78-96 
3 237 
3-382 
■4265 
Head Length "1 
(12 years) J 
184-52 
6-454 
•5041 
180-22 
6-346 
■4251 
183-82 
179-20 
6-563 
6-510 
•4575 
Head Breadth \ 
(12 years) / 
145-23 
5-739 
•5925 
14021 
6-547 
-6208 
144-24 
140.59 
5-975 
5-708 
•5419 
Head Heiglitl 
(12 years) / 
127-19 
6-479 
•5537 
124 07 
6-888 
•5237 
127-36 
124-80 
7-031 
6-226 
■4897 
Mean. 
•5341 
5264 
■4789 
S.D. = Standard deviation, the measure of the vai-iability of the observed character. 
