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be noticed that the Cretan boys are more variable than the men (4 - 8 for 

 the boys as against the 4'1 for the men). Herein a general rule (formu- 

 lated as the results of many hundreds of observations by Roberts, Boas, 

 and Bowditch) appears to apply to Crete as well as to England and the 

 United States. 1 



Table V. 



* From measurements by Messrs. Cooper and Ward (unpublished). 



f From measurements recorded bv Beddoe (Journ. Roy. Anth. Instil., vol. xxxiv., 



1904, p. 92). 



J From measurements recorded by West (Archiv. filr Anthr., Band xxii). 

 § From measurements recorded by Fishberg (Boas Memorial Volume). 



B.— CRETAN SCHOOLGIRLS (ages from 5 to 11 years, the mean value 



being 7-7 years). 



Twenty-five Cretan girls were examined at Vori, none being avail- 

 able at Palaikastro. The observations have been summarised in the 

 order following: — 



Table VI. — Hair-colour and Age. 



Twenty-five Cretan Schoolgirls. (Mean Age 77 years.) 



Colour 



No. 



Fair . 

 Light brown 



Brown 

 Dark brown 



12 



1 



Per 



Cent. 



48 

 4 



32 

 16 



Mean Age 



r) 



7-91 years 

 6-00 



812 

 6-50 



Colour 



Light 

 Medium' 



Dark 



Per Cent. 



Mean Age 



52 7-7 years 



(Boys, 32-76) (Boys, 892 „ ) 



32 812 „ 



(Boys, 22-68) , (Boys, 9-9 „ ) 



16 6-5 „ 



(Boys, 44-1) [(Boys, 10-62 „ ) 



1 Cf. the tables collected bv Jenkinson in his Experimental Embryology, ^Oxford, 

 1909, p. 73. - - • - > 



