36 A Contribution to the Anthropology of Wiltshire. 



The index of Nigrescence takes account of the hair only, and is 

 gotten by subtracting the red and the fair from the dark + twice 

 the black. The black are given a double value as showing a 

 stronger tendency to nielanosity. Medium brown is considered 

 neutral. An index for the eyes(Topinard's)is gotten by subtracting 

 the dark from the light eyes, omitting the neutral. In this part 

 of England this index is always a minus quantity ; and so, usually, 

 is the compound index, gotten by averaging those of the hair and 

 the eyes. For children I have given a compound index only : the 

 index for the hair only is always minus in a high degree. 



Stature. 

 Seventy-three natives of Wiltshire, almost all artizans or laborers 

 of various kinds, and mostly employed in or near Bristol, yielded 

 me an average stature of 5ft. 7"39in. ; they were measured in their 

 boots and working clothes, and their naked stature would probably 

 not much — if at all — exceed 5ft. 6'5m. (1689 m.m.^). The average 

 weight was about 11 stone, or 154 lbs. (70 kilos). Of forty-five 

 men of light complexion (red, fair, or brown hair with light or ■ 

 neutral eyes), the stature was 5ft. 7"64 in. and weight 155-2 lbs. : of 

 twenty-eight with dark hair, or with brown hair and dark eyes, 

 the stature was 5ft. 6'98in., and weight 150-7 lbs. The numbers 

 are of course insufficient. The Anthropometric Committee(Eoberts 

 and Eawson, reporters) gave the stature and weight of one hundred 

 and forty-one Wiltshiremen at 5ft. 633in. (1685 mm ) and 1582 lbs. 

 (71*9 kilos). My own observations were included. Here the stature 

 is barefooted ; the weight includes clothes, and is, I believe, excessive. 



We have in the foregoing tables a quantity of material which, 

 on the justifiable postulate that complexion as well as head-form 

 is strongly hereditary, should enable us to form some opinions on 

 the ethnical constitution of Wiltshiremen. 



I have least confidence as to the stature. It appears to be 

 moderate, less than in the north and north-east of England, but 

 much resembling that of the south and south-east in general. It 

 is below that of the Saxons as known to us. 



As to color, the complexion is fair in the great majority, and 



