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schoolroom, where the light was to some extent subdued. I am not 

 aware of this matter having been tested, but on reflection it seems likely 

 that where the pupils of the eye are dilated, then, in the dim light 

 productive of that effect, the narrow iridic zone (which is all that 

 appears) may be judged to be of darker tint than when the reverse con- 

 ditions obtain. At the time I did not think of this as a possibly dis- 

 turbing factor, but, in any case, the bulk of the schoolboys (those at 

 Vori) were first examined, the men coming in only at a later date. 



Reference should be made to the tabulations (in Tables XI. and XII.) 

 of the association of hair-colour and eye-colour, and also of the indices 

 based upon these data. 



III. Head-length. — The mean value of this dimension in seventy- 

 nine boys (of an average age of 9-9 years) is 173-2 mm. This is the 

 greatest length measurable from the glabella. But, as in the Aragonese 

 and in other school-children, the maximum head-length will be found 

 between a supra-glabellar (i.e., ophryonic) point and an occipital point. 

 The gradual increase in this dimension may be illustrated as follows : — 



Mean value (in mm.) of the maximum glabello-o^cipital length of 

 Cretans (males only): — 



(a) Boys of the average age of 6 years ( 9 examples) 

 W >> >> >> >> i '" >> ( 7J i> 



(d) Adults from all parts of Crete (200 „ 



(a) Boys of the average age of 11 '1 years 



from Sitia province ( 20 ,. 



(6') Adult Cretans of Sitia province . (131 „ 



This table shows that the increase in head-length continues after 

 puberty. The amount of this later increase is not nearly so great as in 

 a distinctly dolichocephalic type, such as the native Aragonese. Com- 

 parison of the figures with those provided by Aragonese school-boys (and 

 recorded by me in the ' Proc. Cambr. Antiq. Soc.', vol. xiv.) will show 

 the correctness of this conclusion. It should be noted, lastly, that the 

 inhabitants of Sitia province show a smaller relative increase (cf. sections 

 (a 1 ) and (¥) of the table) than Cretans in general. 



IV. Head-breadth. — The mean value of the head-breadth is lit).! 

 (79 examples) : its mean value at different ages is shown in the table 

 following: — 



Mean value (in mm.) of the maximum cephalic breadth (of Cretans) : 



(a) Boys of an average age of 6 years . ( 9 examples) . . 135-4 mm. 



(b) The whole series ; mean age 9-9 years . . ( 79 ,, ) . 1402 ,, 



(c) Boys of an average age of 15 years . . . ( 7 ., ) . 143-1 „ 



(d) Adults (males) from all parts of Crete . . (200 ) . 148-3 ,, 

 («') Boys (mean age 11-1 years) of Sitia province (20 ,, ) . . 1430 ., 

 (b') Adult (males) of Sitia province .... (131 „ ) . . 148-7 „ 



In this case again the increase is comparatively continuous, and the 

 sudden acceleration after puberty, so marked in the dolichocephalic 

 Aragonese boy, is hardly noticeable in Crete. Moreover, the boys of 

 the Eastern province have heads which are even more precocious in 

 attaining the mean breadth for the age of puberty than \.hose in other 



