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Having thus compiled the results of observations made on the 

 lobule of forty-two groups of people (twenty-one male and twenty-one 

 female), are we in any better position to answer the inquiry on which 

 we set out the relationship of one group of people to another ? In 

 such an inquiry we proceed on the belief that those groups which 

 show a similarity in form and size in their corresponding parts owe 

 that similarity to a community of descent, and are therefore related. 



If such a principle could be accepted as even probable, then from 

 the above inquiry we should infer that the Aberdeen people find their 

 near relatives amongst the groups examined in Kerry (Killorglin), 

 Scotland Yard, Lancashire and Hamburg. Now, if there is any well- 

 marked race in Great Britain and Ireland, it is the tall, dark, excitable 

 men from Kerry ; they are very different from the people of Aber- 

 deen. I have raised the point simply to emphasise the fact that one 

 cannot determine the relationship by taking into consideration one 

 point only, whether it be size of lobule, shape of ear, colour of hair, 

 characters of mind ; to settle the affinities of a people one must take 

 into consideration every one of the characters of body and mind. One 

 point in my inquiry impressed me, and that was the resemblance of 

 the people living near the coast, north of the mouth of the Elbe 

 (Elmshorn), to those of Peterborough, a superficial resemblance in 

 physical characters, which was also manifest long after, when I 

 worked out the observations I had made on their ears. 



In the groups examined (with one exception Cork Asylum), the 

 lobule was larger in the female than in the male, but the degree of 

 sexual difference varied : in seven groups the difference was '01 to 

 10, in nine groups from -10 to '20, in three groups '20 to '30, and in 

 one group between - 30 and '40. In Cork Asylum the female lobule 

 was '01 less than the male. 



If colour of hair is distinctive of race if fair-haired people are 

 fair-haired because of their community of origin and descent, and 

 black-haired are allied to black-haired, then one would expect that 

 this character of pigmentation would be accompanied by many others. 



Does the lobule of the fair-haired individuals differ from that of the 



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