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portance of the personal equation. When, therefore, he finds in Dr. Kollmann’s tables - 
that the little canton of Nidwalden has very many more light-haired children than 
any other one, he looks on the figures with some degree of suspicion. Partly for 
this reason he visited Stanz, the interesting little capital of Nidwalden, noted the: 
colour of the people he met, and measured twenty skulls in the bone-house. He also 
took observations of the hair and eyes in Ziirich and in Ticino and in several parts 
of the Grisons, measured thirty-six skulls in the ossuary of Davos, and some in that 
of Disentis, as well as a few living heads in both these places. 
He reserves the somewhat dry details for another place, only mentioning, with 
regard to colour, that he found the index of nigresctence, which measures the pre-- 
dominance of dark over light shades of hair, to vary as follows :— 
Nidwalden . Fi apa: : ; . ; - 22 
Ziirich 3 ‘i : ; : z 5 : : 27 
Basel . : a 3 5 : * B ‘ : 44. 
Davos . 3 i 5 ‘ s : : : ‘ 46 
Prattigau : - - : - - - - - 54 
Central Grisons . cC 5 arya wate 5 c 3 56 
Val Blegno . 5 . : ° : : E = 60 
Disentis and Ober-Rheinthal . “oiisic . : : 72 
This scale corresponds fairly with the supposed proportion of Allemannic blood. 
Davos is more Germanic than most part of the Grisons ; the valley is said.to have 
been colonised by the German-speaking people of Upper Wallis. 
As for the form of the heads, the Disentis type, more or less modified, seems to 
predominate even in Nidwalden and Davos; he found the latitudinal index exactly 
alike in both these places, viz. 83°6. He was somewhat surprised to find it so great 
in Nidwalden, where a great many of the inhabitants are blond and blue-eyed, and 
have a decidedly Saxon-English type of features. 
There is more of light hair and blue eyes in the upper valleys of Ticino than 
“in the Ober-Rheinthal, where Romantsch is spoken. Contrary to his previous 
opinion, he is now inclined to recognise there notable remains of Lombard blood. 
The Disentis people are very interesting. It was not without reason that His 
and Riitimeyer gave the name to the broad-headed type. These Disentis follc 
exhibit in the highest degree the combination of dark hair with short, broad skulls. 
A typical living specimen, whom he was enabled to measure through the courtesy 
of Dr. Condrau, had an index of 88; which in the skull would be equal to: 
about 90. He found a skull which yielded! 92, and believes he could easily have 
found more extreme examples, Even allowing something for the flattening of the 
infant head by its being laid on the back, this is very remarkable. And the con- 
currence of the maximum depth of colour (usually very dark grey or light brown 
eyes with very dark brown, seldom coal-black, hair) seems to indicate clearly 
what was the colour of the aboriginal Rhextian race. 
3. ‘ Krao,’ the so-called Missing Link. By J. Park Harrison, M.A. 
The conviction that the hairy child lately exhibited at the Aquarium in 
Westminster possessed ape-like peculiarities, which she had inherited from wild. 
parents in some remote forest in Laos, appeared to be so widely entertained that 
the author thought it well to bring the subject before the Anthropological Depart- 
ment. Unfortunately an admirable description of the case by Dr. Garson, which 
appeared in the ‘British Medical Journal’ on July 6, 1883, was not copied into: 
any of the daily journals or scientific periodicals, and so met the eye of only a 
limited class of readers. It showed that there was nothing abnormal in Krao,. 
except the excessive hairiness; and this, from a recent letter from Siam, where it 
appears the child was born of slave parents, was not inherited from them, since they 
are said to exhibit no similar deyelopment of hair. 
