582 undergraduates were asked to write down their favorite color and choose a number from 0 to 9. The color blue and the number seven were chosen most frequently by both sexes and races, supporting Simon's (1971) “blue-seven” phenomenon. Compared with women, men chose red and blue more frequently. Women showed a preference for yellow, purple, black, and less frequent colors more often than men. White subjects chose blue and green more often than black subjects, while black subjects showed a preference for red, purple, black, and less frequent colors. There was little relationship between color preferences and scores on the Luscher Color Test.

ONE FIGUREThe frequent variation in the arrangement of the superficial veins of the cubital fossa has been recognized by both anatomists and clinicians. The arrangement of these veins may be studied by dissection or by placing a tourniquet around the arm of an individual and then observing the pattern resulting as the veins become engorged. The latter method has been employed by Berry and Newton ('08) in British (whites), by Lassila ('27) in Finns, and by Okamoto ('22) in the Japanese. The patterns shown in the illustrations of these veins in the modern text books and atlases of human anatomy are by no means identical.The present report includes further observations on the cubital veins with respect to the relative frequency of the different forms of arrangement and presents comparison of these forms between American white and American negro males together with other comparisons.The material consists of 122 cadavers, of which ninety-two were dissected by students during the years 1928 to 1931, inclusive, and thirty were dissected by the author. Sixty bodies were American white males and sixty-two were American negro males, and on each body the veins on both the right and left sides were examined. Thus, 244 observations were made. The method employed was that described by Terry ('29), the essential points of which are that each student 9 THE ANATOMICAL RECORD, VOL. 54, NO. 1

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ONE FIGUREConcerning the circumflex veins of the thigh, the relative infrequency of agreement between the text-book description and the condition seen in the cadaver has led to a reexamination of the mode of ending of these blood vessels. Special attention has been given to the comparison of conditions in the white and the American negro. The manner of termination of these veins has been compared also with the origins of the arteries they accompany.I n the text-books of anatomy the medial and lateral femoral circumflex veins are described as terminating in the deep femoral vein-a relation comparable to the origins of the medial and lateral femoral circumflex arteries from the deep femoral artery ( Cunningham, Gray, Poirier, and Quain). I n both Cunningham and Poirier, however, it is stated that not uncommonly the femoral vein is joined by the medial and lateral circumflex veins. Clear illustrations of the terminations of the medial and lateral femoral circumflex veins are relatively scarce, but in the atlases of Sobotta, Toldt, and Spalteholz the plates show plainly the terminations in the femoral vein. This mode of ending was described by Theile ( '43), and by Picqu6 and Pigache ( '09), who report that in the majority of cases studied by them the circumflex veins terminate in the femoral vein. These investigators also found that the ending of the veins is a t a level proximal to that of the origin of the corresponding circumflex arteries.