Dick Johnson's submission on author William Sheldon's non-numismatic work generated a number of comments and corrections. -Editor

The word is "somatotype", not "somotype". The book photos were NOT nude. Each had private parts covered.

I'll go Dick one better-- I was somatotyped by Dr. Sheldon himself. I used to visit him and Dorothy Paschal ("Dr. Dorothy" as he called her) at their home in Cambridge, Mass. On one occasion the conversation turned to somatotyping, and the fact that I went to Harvard but had not participated in Sheldon's photographic somatotyping project. He promptly got up, told me to stand straight and face 90 degrees away from him. He inspected me carefully and pronounced me a 4-6-1, (4 endomorphic, 6 mesomorphic, 1 ectomorphic), a solid rarity 6 in the somatotype world.

So, he'll have a rocky road to health? Sandstone, perhaps?

Got to look out for those “sedimentary endormorphs” – they are closely related to sand sharks and can emerge at any time to attack!

I really enjoyed the links to Dr. William Sheldon. Looking a little further, I found on one of the sites an interesting view of Sheldon and his relationship with Large Cents...it's near the end of the article and attempts to make some sort of psychological connection between Sheldon, his work, and his cents ( www.innerexplorations.com/catpsy/t2c7.htm ).

Of particular interest is a citation from Early American Cents: 'For generations American schoolboys bought, sold, swapped, or swiped old coppers. Some of these boys, especially in old age, have returned to the early enchantment, there to forget or condone the singular incompatibility between human dreams and fulfillments.' (p. 5)

What is this but a description of Sheldon, himself, who fulfilled his professional dreams but not himself?"