Miscellanea 
463 
TABLE II. 
Age and Eye Colour, Prussian School Children. 
Eye Colour. 
Augen 
Blaue 
Graue 
Braune 
Totals 
Age 6— 8 
8—10 
10—12 
12—14 
227,223 
946,576 
292,756 
74,277 
178,014 
692,249 
229,221 
66,445 
140,612 
512,639 
168,764 
49,229 
545,849 
2,151,464 
690,741 
189,951 
Totals 
1,540,832 
1,165,929 
871,244 
3,578,005 
The children above 14 have been omitted because few in number they come from a selected 
class, while the above compose the whole child i^opulation in the elementary schools. 
It will be seen at once that the correlations are far lower than might have been anticipated. 
Indeed so low as to make no change of significance when we are dealing with the correlation of 
hair and eye colour in children, or with the degree of resemblance between siblings of 6 to 14 
years of age *. 
Virchow's data, however, combine the two sexes and it seemed desirable to consider the point 
for one sex only and possibly for a greater range of ages. Accordingly the following Tables 
were prepared from a portion^ of the sister-sister series of school data papers collected by 
Prof. Pearson. 
TABLE in. 
Age and Hair Colour, British Schoolgirls. 
Hair Colour. 
Ked 
Fail- 
Brown 
Dark 
Jet Black 
Totals 
Age 4- 7 
2 
le 
6 
3 
0 
27 
7—10 
10 
86 
79 
20 
0 
195 
10—13 
16 
165 
160-5 
73-5 
4 
419 
13—16 
19 
1.36-5 
189-5 
91 
3 
439 
16—19 
6-5 
71-5 
90-5 
55 
1-5 
225 
Totals 
53-5 
475 
525-5 
242-5 
8-5 
1.305 
* Pearson, Huxley Lecture. See Biometrika, Vol. iii. pp. 149 — 150. 
