TRANSACTIONS OF SECTION H. 875 
Brunette} Blonde || Blonde | Brown | Light Brown 
oT _ type type hair hair eyes eyes 
Upper Bavaria. : 24 ANG 51 48 25°7 3 
Schleswig-Holstein ° 7 43 82 18 50 16 
Liineburg . : ° 7 44 83 17 49 18 
Mecklenburg-Schwerin . 10 42 77 23 49 21 
East Aberdeenshire 5 20°4 16°2 || 25:3 67°7 41 24 
The three North German districts are clearly much more blonde than East 
Aberdeenshire. Germany, as Virchow’s survey has shown, gets more brunette 
and less blonde from north to south; but we must go to its extreme southern 
frontier—z.e. to Upper Bavaria—before we find a district approximating in 
pigmentation to East Aberdeenshire. 
It is noteworthy that whereas in Germany (especially in North Germany) there 
is always more blonde hair than blue eyes, in Aberdeenshire the reverse is the 
case. Of this, two explanations are possible: (1) that the immigrants from Ger- 
many were not pure blondes, but of a mixed variety with brown hair and blue 
eyes; or (2) that pure blonde immigrants found here a population with brown 
eyes, and hair so black as to resist depigmentation longer than the brown eyes. 
The maps of different elements show blonde areas on the accessible parts of the 
coast, and brunette areas on the inaccessible parts. 
The Stature of 169 persons measured at Mintlaw in 1895 averaged 5 feet 
8} inches (which is about the average for Scotland), with three distinct peaks of 
maximum frequency at 5 feet 7} inches, 5 feet 9 inches, and 5 feet 114 inches. 
Of thirteen persons of 5 feet 114 inches in height, nine were dark, three brown, and 
one fair-haired, the other two heights comprise equal numbers of fair and dark. 
The Head Measurements show cephalic indices lying almost entirely between 
74 and 84, with peaks of maximum frequency at 77 and 79. These indices do not 
give a satisfactory analysis into race groups; but on plotting the head-measure- 
ments on a chart with the length and breadth as co-ordinates, the people are 
separated into three groups, coinciding very closely with Beddoe’s average dimen- 
sions plotted on the same chart; of (1) Italians and Row-grave-men; (2) Danes; 
(8) Hanoverians. The Danish group is the most numerous, the Italian coming 
next, and the Hanoverian last. Mixed groups also appear on the chart, having 
the length of one typical group, and the breadth of another. 
3. Report on the Mental and Physical Condition of Children in 
Elementary Schools. See Reports, p. 489. 
4. On Recent Anthropometrical Work in Egypt. 
By D. MaclIver, B.A. 
The author gives examples of the ways in which anthropometry may aid 
archeological investigation, and points out the unusually favourable conditions for 
such anthropometrical work which exist in Egypt. He gives a summary of the 
series of Egyptian measurements at present available, of the difficulties which have 
arisen in their interpretation, and of some new methods of publishing measurements 
specially designed to meet them. 
Details are given of three important series of specimens from Egypt, viz. : 
(1) Prehistoric Series ; from the excavations of 1898-9. 
(2) VI. to XII. Dynasties ; from the excavations of 1898. 
(8) XII. to XVI. or XVII. Dynasties ; from the excavations of 1898-9. 
These series are considered (a) separately, with the object of ascertaining the 
race type represented in each; (6) in comparison with one another, to show their 
affinities and differences. The paper concludes with a note on the light which 
‘such comparison throws on Egyptian history. 
