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by an incomprehensible inclusion into these data of those on the 

 "colored." It would be useless to try to contrast such data with 

 those that are the subject of this paper. 



As to England, the foremost students of pigmentation in the British 

 Isles so far are Beddoe, 14 Graj' and Tocher, 15 Fleure and James, 16 

 and Parsons. 17 From their data it appears that the pigmentation of 

 the hair and ej^es — the skin has not been considered — differs very 

 materially in the different districts and portions of the isles, due to 

 ancestral differences, to an imperfect fusion of the heterogeneous 

 elements of which the population is composed and to local survivals 

 or domination of certain types. The classification of the color of the 

 hair used by these observers agrees fairly well with ours, and we 

 shall be enabled to make some general comparisons; but with the 

 English data on eye-color comparison will be very difficult. 



The English records were recently partly summarized by Parsons. 17 

 Following Beddoe, the English observers classify the hair into fair 

 (corresponding to our "light"), red, brown (our "medium"), dark 

 and black; while the eyes are classed as light, dark, and inter- 

 mediate. The relation of this classification to ours will appear best 

 in the following form : 



Classification of hair and eye color in England and in Old Americans. 



English. 



Old Americans. 



Hair. 



Fair. 



Eyes. 



Brown 



Dark brown. 



Black 



Red 



Light 



Intermediate or neutral . 



Light— Blond, golden and yellow, light brown (near 



blond). 

 Light brown (not blond), medium. 

 Dark. 

 Black. 

 Red. 

 Pure lights— Blues (light, medium, deep), greenish, 



greyish. 

 Mixed. 



Dark \ Pure browns— Light, medium, dark. 



In the case of the hair the two methods agree fairly closely, ex- 

 cept as to our " light brown (not blond)" which class is omitted from 

 the English records. In the case of the eyes, however, there is much 

 less agreement. Some of the light browns had probably been re- 



u Beddoe (John) — Races of Britain, 8°, London. 1885. 



16 Gray (John) and Tocher (J. F.)— The physical characteristics of adults and school 

 children in east Aberdeenshire. ./. Anthrop. Inst., 1000, XXX, 104-124; also Trans. 

 Buchan Field Club, 1897. 



"Fleure (II. J.) and James (T. C.)— Geographical Distribution of Anthropological Types 

 In Wales. J. Anthrop. Inst., 1910, XLVI, :J5-153. 



"Parsons (P. G.)— The Color Index of the Brit. Isles. J. Anthrop. Inst., 1920, L, 

 159-162. 



