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ago, of candidates for admission into training ships in the 

 Royal Navy. The close correspondence between the results 

 is confirmatory of the accuracy of those collected by the 

 Committee, and reflects high credit upon Dr. Ord as a pioneer 

 in these investigations. 



Some of the bearings of the Committee's report on 

 questions of race have been pointed out by Mr. Grant Allen, 

 in an ingenious paper on the subject. He says that 

 the report supports the theory that the modern population, 

 even of South-Eastern England, contains numerous remnants, 

 not only of the Celtic peoples, but also of the earlier Neoli- 

 thic aborigines, and that a belt of dark faces runs across the 

 centre of England, marring the supposed Teutonic purity of 

 Essex, Kent, Hants and Sussex with its touch of the Neoli- 

 thic tar-brush. In this evidence of the continuity of the 

 English people, the Committee confirms the conclusions 

 which Mr. Coote arrived at by a different route in his 

 important work, " The Romans of Britain." 



The French Anthropologists have much more ambitious 

 views on the matter of Anthropometry than are entertained 

 in England. They have prepared a Schedule in which no fewer 

 than 104 separate inquiries are to be answered with respect 

 to each individual. It is obvious that, however interesting 

 many of these may be, it is wholly impracticable to get a 

 sufficient number of observations of this magnitude to form 

 a fair induction. They must, of necessity, be limited to such 

 special classes as can be induced, or are unable to refuse, to 

 submit to a prolonged examination. Dr. Collignon, however, 

 reducing the number of inquiries to 20, has published the 

 results of his observations of recruits belonging to the differ- 

 ent races of France, which fit in exceedingly well with those 

 of the English Committee. 



The British Medical Association has formed a Collective 

 Investigation Committee which is doing very good work. 

 It has adopted a system of cards, similar to those provided 

 by the Anthropometric Committee, and though taking up 

 subjects from a more strictly medical point of view, its 



