582 report — 1878. 



regard to the higher races, especially the English, it must be noted that the skulls 

 examined are those of the least intellectually developed portion of the community, 

 while with some of the lower races, it may he rather the reverse. The general 

 order in which the races are placed does not differ greatly from that of the tables 

 of Barnard Davis and Broca ; but the actual capacities are all smaller, especially 

 than those of the latter author,owing to the difference of the method of measure- 

 ment employed. West Coast of North America, mostly deformed (7), 1589 ; 

 Lapps (4), 1569; Ancient Italian (11), 1558; Eskimo (17), 1546; Modern Greek 

 (9), 1546; English (17), 1542; Guanches (6), 1498; Japanese (6), 1486; Kaffirs 

 (7), 1485 ; Modern Italians (74), 1475 ; Ancient Egvptians (8), 1464 : Polvnesians 

 (18), 1454: Malays (17), 1432; Chinese (16), 1424; African Negroes of various 

 tribes (26), 1377 ; Peruvians (47), 1345 ; Melanesians (30), 1318; Tasmanians (6),. 

 1309; Hindoos (23), 1306; Australians (26), 1285; Andamanese (4), 1220; 

 Veddas (3), 1205. 



2. Report of the Anthropometric Committee. — See Reports, p. 152. 



3. On a Colour Scale. By E. W. Brabkook. 



Having regard to Professor Broca's types of colour of eyes, hair, and skin adopted 

 by the Association in their 'Notes and Queries on Anthropology,' and to the selec- 

 tion made from those typesby the Anthropometric Committee, the writer drew attention 

 toa very comprehensive scale of colours lately published by the Socie'te' Stenochromiqua 

 of Paris, given to him by Dr. Paul Topinard, as affording a step towards universal 

 scientific language on the matter. The scale comprises forty-two colours and about 

 twenty shades of each, altogether more than 800 shades. The writer attempted to 

 identify Broca's types of eye-colour with some of the shades of colours 4, 10, 12, 

 13, 18, 19, 33 and 34 in the scale ; and his types of hair and skin colour with soma 

 of those of 3, 4, 5,6, 32, 33, 34 and 35 — showing that a comparatively limited range 

 would suffice for all practical purposes in anthropology. 



4. Left-handedwss. By Henry Muirhead, M.D. 



The writer directed attention chiefly to the seeming hereditariness of left-handed* 

 ness in some families instancing his own as one in which he had been unable to trace 

 a single instance of left-handedness. Contrasted with this he gave stalistics of tL 

 family (named White) in Cambuslang for a period of 123 years. Of the individuals of 

 this family so far as accurately known thirty-four used the right hand and nine the left;. 

 nearly twenty-one per cent. Information as to the other members could not be relied 

 on. Only one of the nine married and had children whose right and left-handednesa 

 was known (she had five children two of them left-handed) so that in the majority of 

 the instances given the parent was not left-handed. In all cases measured by the 

 writer, left-handed individuals have the left foot from one-third to one-eighth of an 

 inch longer than the right. The converse of this is usual in right-handed people. 

 Right-handed people in looking with one eye (the other being shut) use the righti 

 All left-handed females, so far as hitherto -scrutinized, use the left. Of left-handed 

 males examined only two out of fourteen used the left eye. 



