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ALLOW me to draw the attention of your readers to a statement which is certainly strange, if true. An opinion is prevalent in the hat trade that the size of men's heads has undergone a decrease within the last thirty or forty years. The following statement has been given to me by a hatter whose name has attained a pre-eminence of a duration of more than one generation. “Five-and-thirty years ago,” he says, “when I was a young man, we used to purchase hats for retail trade in the following ratio:—
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KESTEVEN, W. An Alleged Diminution in the Size of Men's Heads. Nature 25, 8 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/025008a0
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