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board, the anthropological statistics of which have been recently ascertained. The 

 following results show that a very considerable difference exists ; and it being 

 highly probable that a more primitive stratum of the population is always to be 

 found in the upper ends of river valleys, the results are of great interest from this 

 point of view. 



The pigmentation and nose statistics of the whole of the people attending the 

 gathering, namely, 361 males and 243 females, were taken at the gate by two 

 observers. Later on the same statistics, with the addition of measurements of the 

 head and of stature, were taken in a tent in the grounds, about ninety adult males, 

 natives of the district, being measured. The people observed at the gate contained 

 a small percentage of visitors from a distance, which may account for the difference 

 in the results obtained at the gate and in the tent. 



An examination of the above table shows that on the average the hair is much 

 darker in West than in East Aberdeenshire ; a result which might be accounted for 

 by the presence of a larger percentage of the North German blonde type on the east 

 coast. The eyes, however, are lighter in the west than in the east ; an anomalous 

 result which is not so easily explained. 



The following table gives an analysis of the measurements of the ninety adult 

 males taken in the tent and their correlations, with pigmentation and types of 

 noses, corresponding results obtained from the rural population of E. Aberdeen- 

 shire (Mintlaw gathering) being given for the sake of comparison. 



' Blue eyes were taken separately at the Lonach gathering, and were found to 

 form about 10 per cent, of the liffht eyes, which in the table includes blue eyes 



