J. F. Tocher 
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Section 
II. Analysis of Glasgow Data 
(a) General Divergency in 
Colonr .... 
■ (1) Hair Colour ; (2) Eye 
Colour .... 
(j3) Individual ClasMcs. 
(1) Hair Colour; (2) Eye 
Colour .... 
(y) General View 
III. Specific Elements in the Glas- 
gow Population causing Di- 
vergency .... 
(a) Introductory ; Gaelic 
speaking Population of Glas- 
gow ; (y) the Foreign Popu- 
lation of Glasgow ; (8) the 
Irish Population of Glasgow 
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203 
203 
203 
207 
207 
208 
210 
210 
Section Page 
IV. Summary of Results of the 
Analysis of the Population 
of Glasgow .... 217 
12. Comparison with other Data . 219 
I. Scottish Data : (a) East Aber- 
deenshire Children, 1896 ; 
(/3) Scottish Adults; the 
Insane ; (y) Scottish Adults, 
Beddoe's observations . 219 
II. Foreign Data : (a) the Actual 
Data ; (/3) Comments . . 221 
III. The Data bearing on Corre- 
lation and comparison with 
similar Data . . . 223 
(o) General ; Qi) Compari- 
sons 223 
13. Summary of Results . . . 225 
(1) Introductory. 
In 1896, the writer organized and carried out a survey of the colour characters 
of the school population (14,561) of East Aberdeenshire*- — the first local survey 
of its kind in the British Isles. The cooperation of the teachers in East 
Aberdeenshire was so hearty that the writer conceived the idea of making a survey 
of the colour characters of the whole of the school population of Scotland and, 
afterwards, of making a survey of the physical chai-acters of the Scottish adult 
population. The chief obstacle in the way of carrying out both schemes was the 
want of funds. At Glasgow, for instance, the British Association approved of the 
idea but made no Grant f. In December, 1901, however, the writer applied to 
the Royal Society of London for a Grant of £200, naming a Scottish Committee 
prepared to see the pigmentation survey carried out. The promotion of the 
adult survey was meantime held in abeyance. The committee named was con- 
stituted and consisted of the following: Professor, now Principal Sir William Turner, 
K.C.B., F.R.S., chairman ; Professor R. W. Reid, M.D., F.R.C.S. ; J. Gray, B.Sc, 
and the writer. Under the direction of this committee, the Survey was made 
and this Report is published. The Grant applied for was given in May 1902, 
and the supplementary Grants of £100 each were given in lOO-t and 1906. The 
Royal Society has thus supplied the sum of £400 to enable the Survey to be 
* Tocher, "Ethnographical Survey of School Children in Buchan," Trans. Buchan Field Club, 
Vol. IV. pp. 137 — 152. Observations on the colour cliaracters of over 2800 adults belonging to the 
same population had already been made by the writer and his assistants in 1895 at Mintlaw in 
Aberdeenshire. The results of an elementary analysis of these ohservations together with the resulta 
of a similar analysis of measurements of adults in various parts of Aberdeenshire are embodied in joint 
papers by J. Gray and the writer published in the following Journals : — Jour. Anthrop. Inst. Vol. xxx. 
1900, pp. 104—124 ; B. A. Report, 1900, pp. 193—195 ; B. A. Report, 1904, p. 707 ; etc. 
t A Committee was formed, but no work was done, and it was dissolved in 1903, on its being pointed 
out that a Scottish committee with a Grant from the Royal Society was carrying out the survey. 
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