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eyesight, colour of eyes and hair of the inhabitants of the 

 British Isles. Several of these may be of interest, but they 

 are of no special ethnological importance. This report was 

 drawn up by Mr. C. Roberts and Sir Rawson W. Rawson. 

 And it is illustrated by a few maps showing the distribution 

 of height, weight and certain combinations of the colours of 

 eyes and hair. 



In order to gain definite information respecting the 

 racial affinities of a people it is necessary to have other 

 measurements than the above-mentioned. A happy example 



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Fig. i. Sketch Map of the District. 



of the value of employing different sets of observations is 

 afforded by the brilliant work done Dr. R. Collignon in his 

 studies on the anthropology of France. His paper on the 

 five Departments of Dordogne, Charente, Correze, Creuse 

 and Haute- Vienne {Mdm. Soc. dAnth., Paris, i. (3^ ser.), 

 3<? fascia, 1894) constitutes so instructive an example of the 

 modern methods of Anthropological investigation and of 

 the lessons to be learnt from them that an abstract of it will 

 furnish the best answer to the question : Why are these 

 observations and measurements made ? 



