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APPENDIX III. 



Report of the Cambridge Committee for the Ethnographical Survey of 



East Anglia. 



The Committee present the reports on the physical characters of the 

 inhabitants of two districts in the neighbourhood of Cambridge. 



Last year Professor Macalister gave a course of lectures on Anthro- 

 pology at Aberdeen, which excited a good deal of local interest. Several 

 members of his audience were stimulated to study the subject, and some 

 of their personal observations on the hair and eye colours of the inhabit- 

 •unts of Aberdeen and elsewhere are here appended. 



Professor Macalister also interested Mr. J. J. Taylor, M.B., of 

 Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in making anthropometrical observations. 

 Mr. Taylor took the opportunity of a bazaar to measure and note the 

 characters of 66 natives of Yorkshire. The following tables give details 

 of 31 of these who came from a restricted area. 



Some former students of Professor Haddon's took a similar oppor- 

 tunity in Belfast in 1894 and measured a large number of people. In 

 both cases the visitors to the bazaars paid a small sum to be measured, 

 and they received a printed form on which was entered a copy of their 

 measurements. This method of obtaining measurements and other 

 anthropological data might very well be employed elsewhere. 



On the Physical Characters of the Inhabitants of Barley, Herts. 

 By A..G. Haddon. 



In the 1895 Report of the Association a reference was made (p. 510) 

 to observations I made, with the assistance of some of my students, on 

 the physical characters of the inhabitants of the parish of Barley. Though 

 situated in Hertfordshire this village is on the borders of Cambridgeshire 

 and Essex. The rector, the Rev. J. Frome Wilkinson, afforded me every 

 facility in his power, and induced several of his parishioners to be 

 measured. 



The families of thirteen of the men measured at Barley have been 

 established in the district for some two or three hundred years. The 

 parents of No. 8 came from Braintree in Essex, and those of No. 14 fi-om 

 Suffolk, where, in both instances, their families had been for generations. 

 I have included them in the totals, as they do not appreciably affect the 

 averages ; No. 8 is, however, less typical. 



The average Barley man may be described as having a ruddy skin, 

 which does not freckle ; brown hair, with a tendency to fair or red, though 

 dark hair is by no means uncommon. The hair is as often straight as 

 wavy. Eight have blue eyes, two each light and dark grey, one green, 

 and two light brown. The face is in an equal number of cases of medium 

 breadth, or long or narrow. Nos. 12 and 15 have broad faces. The 

 cheek bones are inconspicuous. The nose is most usually straight — two 

 had turned-up noses. The lips are thin or of medium thickness. The 

 ears are, as a rule, fairly prominent, but they are not of a coarse type. 

 The average stature (excluding No. 15) is 1,695 mm., or 5 feet 6| inches. 



The more important head measurements and indices will be found in 

 the table. Full face and profile photographs were taken of the fifteen 

 individuals measured ; copies of these are deposited with the schedules 

 containing the detailed information. 



