Note 2 — PART II. MASS STUDIES IN HEREDITY OF ADULT BUILD.

The families in the tables of the Appendix which are marked by an asterisk (*) are not included in table 11. The reason is that they were selected families, usually because containing very fleshy persons. It was deemed undesirable to combine these selected families with the unselected families that make up most of table 11; a table which forms the basis for figure 7. To have included them would have distorted the form of that figure.