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ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1021. 



The most practical classification for white people of the American 

 type as found by the writer, both through considerable experience in 

 examination as well as in the analysis of the obtained records, and one 

 which was therefore used throughout in these studies, is as follows: 



Pigmentation, 

 skin. 



Light (blond, pale-rosy). 



Medium (all between light and 

 dark). 



Dark (swarthy, dusky). 



HAIR. 



EYES. 



In general the pigmentation of the parts examined shows consid- 

 erable conformity. A light skin will be associated with blond or 

 yellow hair and light to medium blue or greenish eyes ; red hair goes 

 generally with a light to pale rosy skin and a light to medium blue 

 or greenish or mixed eye ; and a dark brown eye is invariably asso- 

 ciated with dark to black hair while the skin will range from slightly 

 brunet to dark. As a rule also the unmixed medium and dark types 

 breed true, the lights producing lights and the darks, darks, though 

 the range of exact shading in each is fairly extended. But those with 

 medium pigmentation seem less stable and harmonious, and the 

 usually large category of mixtures presents frequent smaller or 

 greater disharmonies and irregularities. 



COLOR OF SKIN. 



The observations on the skin in the present studies, extended to 

 200 " Old American " males and 250 females without selection. The 

 gross results are as follows: 5 



6 It is self-evident that noninstrumental observations such as these, however carefully 

 made, can not claim mathematical precision, and would probably differ slightly from 

 observer to observer ; but these differences, with equally instructed students, could not be 

 great enough materially to affect the general results. 



