The author described the crown characters of the deciduous dentition in Japanese and Japanese-American hydrids in previous chapters. The present paper gives the the general conclusions and forms the last chapter of this work.

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This is a brief report of anthropometry of a patient suffering from Gargoylism, a boy 6 years and 4 months of age.

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In February 1957, the authors had an opportunity to take the body measure-ments of a male patient suffering from gigantism, 21 years of age, in Shin-shu University. No abnormal individuals were found among his family, though his father is tall (1725mm). The patient is 2186mm, in stature, while the average stature of the Japanese people is ca. 1640mm, among students and ca. 1600mm, among farmers. But the body proportions are very abnor-mal -short trunk, long limbs, and meagreness in body and extremities. The cephalic index is 76.9; the head is heavy and triangular in frontal view; the face is notably asymmetric and rhomboidal with slant eyes and the nose is comparatively wide. Darwin's tubercle is observable on the ears. In spite of a relatively narrow bigonial diameter, the jaws, especially the chin, are enormous and his lips are swelling. The patient is, therefore, considered to be not only suffering from gigantism but also from acro-megaly. The epiphysial lines still persist in the various long bones. His intelligence does not appear to be subnormal. Detailed data are contained in the Japanese text.

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In this article, the author summarizes various recent discussions by American anthropologists with reference to the application of the Rorschach Test to Cultural Anthropology. Included here are discussions by JULES HENRY and SPIRO, ⁽¹³⁾ MENSH and HENRY, ⁽¹⁷⁾ M. MEAD, ⁽¹⁸⁾ and finally the discus-sions at the Symposium on this problem held in the 1954 and reported in a volume of the American Anthropologist. Participating in the Symposium were HENRY, HALLOWELL and othres.⁽¹⁹⁾ The author gives his comments on the main problems as follows:
1) Relationship between Observation and the Rorschach Test: The obser-vation is not always reliable, for it is apt to be influenced by the anthro-pologist's own value as discussed by BENNETT⁽²⁰⁾ and SARASON.⁽²¹⁾ In addition, the observation cannot reveal the core-personality which is often disguised by the role-action as pointed out by KLUCKHOHN, ⁽²³⁾ As emphasized by KAPLAN, ⁽²⁴⁾ the field-worker should always distinguish carefully between cultural processes as revealed by observation and personality processes as revealed by the Test. However, it should also be taken into consideration that the test result is, too, influenced by the subject's role-action and the cultural meaning of the test situation as pointed by KAPLAN.⁽²⁶⁾
2) Statistical Treatment of the Test Data: Although criticized by HENRY and others, statistical treatment in this field has been greatly improved by most recent researchers such as DEVOS, ⁽²⁸⁾ WALLACE, ⁽²⁹⁾ and SPINDLER.⁽³⁰⁾ On the other hand, SARASON⁽³⁴⁾ points out that this kind of treatment is mea-ningless, unless the cross-cultural norms for the test interpretation and theoretical bases are established.
3) Norms for the Test Interpretation: Although future effort for the study of cross-cultural norms is urged by many, this kind of study is not as yet made, except in reference to the popular responses made by HALLO-WELL⁽³⁷⁾ and KAPLAN.⁽³⁸⁾
4) Form of Cooperation between Anthropologists and Psycologists : "Blind analysis" is meaningless for the cross-cultural use of the test. Although the division of labor between anthropologists and psychologists is most effective, anthropologists should also know about the test to some extent, in order that they can communicate with psychologists and to assure that the test results can be checked back immediately in the field with ethnographical data.

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