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attraction of the hospital, while patients suffering from pulmonary 
tuberculosis, nervous diseases, and cancer were shorter than the general 
average. 
3. That the average stature both of hospital patients and their 
visitors decreased with each successive generation of city life. 
4, That blonde traits are associated with acute rheumatism, its sequel 
and congeners. 
5. That brunette traits are associated with pulmonary tuberculosis, 
nervous diseases, and cancer. 
6. These observations were supplemented by others on small numbers 
only, from various parts of the British Isles, but the tendency was found 
to be everywhere in the same direction. 
7. That medical patients in children’s hospitals are fairer than healthy 
children from the same area. 
8. That brunette traits increased with successive generations of city 
life among the visitors to patients in hospitals, but not among the patients 
themselves. 
9, That the geographical distribution of disease in the British Isles 
and on the Continent suggests some relation between the frequency of 
physical types and the rate of mortality from the diseases of special 
selection mentioned above. 
Measurements of the Insane.—During the past year a survey of the 
physical characters of the inmates of lunatic asylums in Scotland has 
been carried out by Mr. J. F. Tocher, with the assistance of two trained 
assistants. The survey is due to the suggestion of Dr. J. Macpherson, 
one of the Commissioners of Lunacy for Scotland, through whose good 
offices every facility was given by the authorities for making the observa- 
tions. Altogether 4,436 males and 3,951 females have up to date been 
measured, the characters noted being the following : (1) maximum head 
length ; (2) maximum head breadth; (3) auricular head height ; 
(4) stature ; (5) shape of nose; (6) hair and eye colours. The nature 
of the mental affection was also noted. The actual data, giving a 
complete record of individual measurements, will shortly be pubiished,' 
and also an analysis of the statistics, and some observations on the nature 
of the results obtained.? The instruments used were Gray’s sliding 
callipers and head height meter. 
Measurements of School Childven.—Five hundred school children in 
Aberdeenshire and 500 in Glasgow have been measured by Messrs. 
J. F. Tocher and R. Tocher. The same measurements were made as on 
the lunatics, and in addition measurements of the curvature of the 
cornea and the visual acuity of the children were made. The instrument 
used to determine the corneal curvature was a Hardy ophthalometer. 
Measurements in Dorsetshire.—At the invitation of Mr. Baxter of 
Sherborne a number of the peasantry of North Dorsetshire have been 
measured by Mr. J. Gray. Length, breadth, and height of head, minimum 
frontal breadth, and auricular radii to the nasion and the alveolar points 
were measured. Mr. Baxter, who has been personally instructed in the 
art of making measurements, is continuing the work, and when sufficient 
statistical data have been accumulated a paper on the results will be 
offered to the Anthropological Institute. - 
1 By the Henderson Trust. 
2 This paper will appear in Biometrika. 
