108 The lulwhitauts of the Eeistern Mediterranean 
artificial selection — his men are tall and may have been picked for this quality— or 
whether in those epaixhies there does exist an unmixed strain. 
The Lycian gypsies represent a consistently homogeneous strain with low 
variations in every case except in the glabello-occipital length where they have 
a normal coefficient of variation (i.e. one similar to the rest). In this latter case we 
have a curious exception in the low variation occurring aaiong the people of Meligala, 
but no stress should be laid on this owing to the very small sample. 
If we admit the Lycian gypsies to be a homogeneous people, and take into con- 
sideration their social milieu, it becomes of importance to find if possible another 
people who practised endogamy for similar religious reasons. The communities of 
the Druses and Maronites present an exact parallel, but no measurements appear 
to be available for statistical purposes. There exist however a number of anthropo- 
logical measurements of Jews. Table XIII summarizes some of these. It will be 
seen that with very few exceptions they present features which are remarkably 
TABLE XIII. 
Measurements of Jews. 
ri'Dvenance 
No. 
Cepluilic Index 
Nasal Index 
Stature 
M 
cr 
M 
M 
V 
Askcnazim 
202 
83-7 +-14 
3-0 +10 
Sliephardiiu ... 
149. 
81-5 +-18 
3-2 +-12 
Grusinians 
71 
86-7 +-34 
4-2 +-24 
Yemen 
57 
79-0 ±-29 
3-2 +-20 
Aleppo 
43 
84-5 +-32 
3-1 +-23 
Morocco 
30 
80-2 + -28 
2-3 +-20 
Various Countries ... 
500 
81-42+ -10 
3-16+ -07 
Italy 
112 
82-45+ -25 
3-87 + -17 
Russian 
139 
81-09 + -20 
3-58+ -14 
European Geriuauy) 
100 
80-3 +-21 
3-14+ -1.5 
South Russia 
100 
81-94+ -17 
2-48+ -12 
Persian .Jews 
57 
81-32 ± -35 
3-92+ -25 
60-37+ -56 
6-07 + 
•40 
164-35+ -52 
3-53+ -22 
Yemen 
78 
74-49+ -25 
3-27 + -18 
57-41 + -42 (.50) 
4-35 + 
■29 
159-40+ -46 
3-76+ -20 
Samarkand ... 
100 
83-69+ -28 
4-09+ -19 
58-66+ -55 (50) 
5-67 + 
-38 
166-42+ -39 
3-52+ -17 
consistent. The data have been collected by different observers, and the countries 
represented are world wide. Standard deviations below 3 in the cephalic index 
occur in two cases only, in one of which however so small a number was measured 
that the figure is uncertain, the other case from South Russia, in which 100 
intlividuals are included, is noticeable ; all the other cases in the table fall within 
the limits of 3 — 4, except 71 Grusinians whose standard deviation is 4-2 and the 
Jews from Samarkand {a 4-09). It is impossible to discuss at length here the 
vexed question of the Jewish race, but it would appear that we have in the above table 
a consistent degree of variation in a race which has on the whole been endogamous 
although exposed to many vicissitudes of climatic conditions, suggesting that such 
