706 REPORT—1904. 
indices); the photographic record of racial types; the problem of combined 
museum collection and investigation; the difficulties encountered in carrying out 
the work of a Government official owing to the timidity and mistrust of the 
people, and their fears of increased taxation, plague-inoculation, and transpor- 
tation. 
The Madras survey covers the following linguistic areas:—Tamil, Telugu, 
Malayalam, Kanarese, Tulu, Khond; and the racia/ division into Pre-Dravidian 
or Archi-Drayidian, Aryo-Dravidian, Scytho-Dravidian. In distinguishing these 
the nasal index is of value as a guide to racial admixture. 
The author describes the characteristics of the jungle tribes, short of stature 
and platyrrhine; criticises Gray’s head-measurements of the Indian Coronation 
contingent; discusses the two main types which are found among the natives 
of Southern India; and gives the distribution of the dolicho-, mesati-, and sub- 
brachycephalic types; and an account of the type of head in the Kanarese area, 
and of Risley’s Scytho-Dravidian hypothesis. Valuable evidence on these points 
is afforded by the deviation of cephalic length, breadth, and index in various castes 
and tribes, especially Brahmans, Todas, Palayams, Pallis, and Urialis. 
7. Interim Report on the Present State of Anthropological Teaching. 
See Reports, p. 341. 
8. Recent Anthropometric Work in Scotland. By J. F. Tocurer, £.L.C. 
During the present year a survey of the inmates of Scottish asylums has been 
carried out by the author, the characters measured or noted being head-length, head- 
breadth, head-height (from centre of auricular orifice to vertex), stature, shape of 
nose, and colour of hair andeyes. This survey is due to the suggestion of Dr. John 
Macpherson, one of the Commissioners in Lunacy for Scotland, through whose 
good offices every facility was given by the medical superintendents and other 
authorities to make the necessary observations. The expenses of the survey were 
borne by a grant secured, at Dr. Macpherson’s instance and that of his co-trustees, 
Sir Arthur Mitchell and Sir John Sibbald, from the Henderson Trust of Edin- 
burgh. The actual data giving the records of the measurements will shortly be 
published by the Trust, and will be available to those interested, while the results 
of a complete analysis of the statistics with some observations thereon will appear 
in ‘ Biometrika.’ Altogether 4,436 males and 3,95] females were measured. 
The distributions of head-lengths, head-breadths, and head-heights are of 
Type LV. of Pearson’s series. The means and standard deviations do not indicate 
any special differences from those of published results elsewhere. Since, however, 
the measurements are those of a rather selected sample of the general population, 
significant differences may be revealed on a closer examination of the data. 
Thirty correlation tables have been prepared, these including both measurable and 
non-measurable characters. An example of the first, that of head-length and 
head-breadth, gives the value of 7 =*501, probably about the highest found for 
this particular pair of characters. The correlation between hair and eyes of a 
sample of 1,200 was found to be ‘402, compared with ‘3795 for Aberdeenshire 
children. The physical characters of 1,000 school children (including 500 Glasgow 
children by Mr. R. Tocher) have also been noted. In addition to the ordinary 
measurements, the radius of curvature of the cornea and the visual acuity of the 
children were determined. The data obtained will supply additional information 
as to the rate of growth generally and of the relationships existing between the 
chief dimensions of the eye. An analysis of these measurements will also be 
published at an early date. 
