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ON THE HEAD-FORMS 



individuals with light hair, and an average stature somewhere 

 about the mean. And, on the other hand, of twenty-five 

 Englishmen having black or brownish-black hair, the average 

 index of head-breadth is so small as 76'5, which is the lowest 

 I have met with in any set of men. Eight Welshman having 

 black hair, yielded the same modulus to a fraction as thirty- 

 eight who had hair of other colours, though I must concede 

 that eight black-haired Kerrymen had heads broader by | per 

 cent, than twenty-four others. The observations of my friend 

 Mr. Hector MacLean, on the islanders of Islay and Colousay, 

 bear me out on this point very strongly, his black-haired men, 

 twenty in number, yielding a modulus of seventy-six, or three 

 per cent, less than that of their lighter-haired neighbours. 



We shall see the bearing of all this presently. In the mean- 

 time it is worthy of remark that the remaining part of my 

 friend's postulate is more correct. Mr. Maclean's measure- 

 ments, and my own, both indicate that a notable, though not 

 very great, inferiority in stature and bulk, does, on the average, 

 characterise the black-haired type. 



I shall now proceed to state, from the narrowest to the 

 broadest, the moduli, or indices of relative breadth, which I 

 have found in the living heads of natives of the following dis- 

 tricts. I shall introduce seven Hanoverians from the neigh- 

 bourhood of Bremen, as representatives of one of the Teutonic 



