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(c.) Physical Proportions. — As ia foregoing reports, the proportions 

 borne by tbe main measurements to the stature (taken as 100) have 

 been calculated, and are given in this paper : they differ consider- 

 ably from those of the people of the districts previously visited. 



Face. 



The face is not so long in proportion as met with in either of the 

 other localities. It varies between 6-48 and 8-26, with a mean of 

 7'36 : it is over 8 in one instance, and below 7 in nine out of the 

 sixty-two recorded. 



Upper Face. — Mean 4*30, as compared with 4-42 for Inishbofin. 



Nose. — This is not very constant in its relation to body-height, 

 having a mean of 3-10 and extremes of 2-65 and 3-98. Thus, on the 

 whole, this featm^e is much shorter in the Erris people than in the 

 Aran Islanders (3-38) or the natives of Inishbofin, in whom the mean 

 exactly equalled the canon (3-30). 



Sitting Height. 



This measurement was for the first time taken regularly in field- 

 work in this district. The mean of the series is 51-33, but it varies 

 in individual cases between 49*44 and 55-29. 



Upper Limb. 



Span. — Several cases are recorded in this series in which this 

 measurement falls short of the stature, a character found to be com- 

 mon in the Aran Islands, where it was met with in more than one- 

 fourth of those measured. The proportion in this case is one in 

 fifteen. Of the four cases, three are from North Inishkea and one 

 from the Mullet. The mean occupies a position between that of Aran 

 and that of Inishbofin, being 104'36 as against 101-94 and 104-95. 



Hand. — This member is rather short, and is, as a rule, fairly con- 

 stant in its proportion to stature. It ranges, however, in extreme 

 cases between 10-10 and 12*24, and averages 11-34, being thus the 

 same as the mean of Inishbofin (11*33). 



Forearm. — The forearm is long, giving a mean of 15*43, very 

 much greater than is the case either in the Aran series (15*18) or in 

 that of Inishbofin (15*03). 



