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past year. The record does not profess to be complete, as it contains 
only such work as happens to have been brought under the notice of 
the secretary. The Committee express a hope that persons engaged in 
anthropometric work will send a short account to the secretary for in- 
sertion in future reports of the Committee. Several school managers and 
teachers have addressed inquiries to the Committee with the view of 
getting instructions for carrying out anthropometric work in their schools. 
In some cases practical instruction has been given to these applicants, 
and, in others, written instructions. 
The Committee again beg to acknowledge the assistance given by the 
Anthropological Institute in providing headquarters for the Committee, 
and in granting permission to hold meetings in their rooms. 
The Committee desire to be reappointed with instructions to continue 
the work indicated in the above Report. As the grant of 5/. made to 
the Committee two years ago has now been expended, and as it will 
probably be considered advisable to prepare blocks of the human figure 
showing the points between which measurements are to be made, an 
expenditure over and above the ordinary expenditure for secretarial work 
will be necessary. The Committee, if reappointed, ask for a grant of 101, 
APPENDIX. 
Pigmentation Survey of the School Children of Scotland—A survey 
of the hair and eye colours of the school children in Scotland has been 
carried out during the past year by the Scottish school teachers, under 
the direction of a Committee consisting of Sir William Turner, Professor 
R. W. Reid, Mr. J. Gray, and Mr. J. F. Tocher. The schedules with 
instructions, and circulars containing a statement of the objects, were 
sent out on the 7th December, 1903, to all the 3,150 primary schools in 
Scotland. By the end of December 700 returns had been sent in by 
the teachers. Up to the present time over 2,300 returns, representing 
530,000 children, or about 70 per cent. of the whole, have been received. 
The teachers have taken up this scheme with the greatest enthusiasm 
and have shown great interest in the objects and progress of the survey. 
The analysis of the statistics is now being proceeded with. The data 
obtained will be available for the determination of races and the study 
of the laws of heredity. 
Physical Characters and Morbid Proclivities—Dr. F. C. Shrubsall 
has published a paper on the results of an important investigation on the 
above subject in the St. Bartholomew’s Hospital Reports, vol. xxxix. This 
deals with a study of the physical characters of hospital patients, taken 
chiefly from the medical wards of St. Bartholomew’s, Brompton, and the 
North-Eastern Children’s Hospitals. The observations on hair and eye 
colour were made on about 8,000 patients, on stature on 2,000, and on head 
form on 400. At the same time some observations were made on the 
number of generations each individual had lived in London. 
The conclusions arrived at were :— 
1, That the average head form seemed to be much the same both in 
hospital patients and healthy individuals, and that no differences were to 
be found among patients suffering from different groups of disorders. 
2. That patients suffering from rheumatism and heart disease were on 
the average a little taller than the general population in the sphere of 
