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properly shaded or to have colour cards if such were possible. Dr Francis Galton, 
Dr A. C. Haddon, Professors Macalister, K. Pearson and D. J. Cunningham were 
each consulted and gave valuable suggestions. Artists and lithographers were 
employed to reproduce the shades of colour from a very complete sot of specimens 
of hair of all shades and from specially prepared artificial eyes. A good deal of 
progress was made, but on attempting to determine the various classes by aid of 
colour cards giving either the limits or the means of the classes, the method failed 
to produce satisfactory results. It was found that, compared with the results 
obtained by the use of samples of natural hair, observers differed seriously in the 
classification of colour by this method. This appeared to be due to the comparative 
failure of the lithographers to reproduce the natural shades required. The writer 
devised the following analytical table (Table I.), the range of each class being 
TABLE I. 
Analytical Table fur Hair Colours. 
Red 
Not Red 
The hair is red ; 
either light red, 
bright red, or 
dark red 
The hair is not red. It is either fair. 
brown, or dark 
Fair 
Not 
Fair 
All colours which 
The hair is fair, 
that is white, 
flaxen, or golden- 
yellow only 
(A VERY LIGHT ) 
} brown may be > 
( included here ) 
The hair is not fair. It is brown (medium) 
or dark 
approach more to 
red than to brown 
or flaxen 
Class 1. 
Medium 
The hair is chestnut 
brown, brownish, 
or is neither red, 
fair, nor dark 
Dark 
The hair is dark 
brown, or dark or 
black, but not jet 
black 
Class 4. 
Class 2. 
Class 3. 
Jet Black only 
Class 5. 
Note. — There are five divisions of hair colours recognised by the Committee. 
No. 1. — The first includes all shades of red — light red, bright red, and sandy red, &c. 
No. 2. — The second division includes all shades of fair, but great care must lie taken nut to 
include brown or medium hair. Flaxen, white, and golden yellow are the shades 
of fair recognised. 
No. 3. — The third division includes chestnut brown, dull brown, and all shades, not red 
fair, or dark. 
No. 4. — The fourth division, dark, includes very dai'k brown (looking black at a moderate 
distance), and black. 
No. 5. — The fifth division is very uncommon. It is jet black 
