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excess of blue eyes. Midlothian and Haddington (South-Eastern division) show 
significant excess; Berwick (cf) only a slight excess. Wigtown and Roxburgh 
(of the Southern division) and only Ayr (South-Western division) are megalo- 
metropic counties with respect to blue eyes. On the county basis of analysis, 
the tract of country stretching from Fife through the Midlands to Dumbarton 
and southwards through Stirling, Linlithgow, Lanark, Renfrew, Peebles, Selkirk, 
Kirkcudbright and Duuifries, is characterised by a deficiency (in many localities 
highly significant) of the blue-eyed class of children. Argyll alone of the Highland 
counties shows no bias in favour of blue eyes ; it is like the general population. 
Examining the distribution from the results of the district analysis it is seen 
that there is no significant excess on the east coast except in the Elgin district. 
Inwards from Elgin, north to Sutherland, west to Lewis, south to the border of 
Argyll and North Perthshire, and east through the Spey region to West Aberdeen- 
shire, blue eyes is quite in excess of the general population both for boys and 
girls. The excess is small in Mid Perthshire, increases in the south of the county 
and diminishes rapidly in passing into Stirlingshire and the populous region 
between the Forth and the Clyde. Turning eastwards, the excess becomes sig- 
nificant in North-East Lanarkshire and the neighbourhood of Linlithgow. In 
the Lothians, the excess found there by the county analysis is shown by the 
district analysis to be fairly evenly distributed. No great city shows excess of 
the blue-eyed population. On the contrary, there is a significant defect in each, 
TABLE XV. 
County Specification. Blue Eyes. Both Sexes. 
The sign (J indicates boys only ; and 5 , girls only. 
Megalometropic 
Mesometropic 
Micrometropic 
Distinctly 
Probably 
Probably 
Distinctly 
Aberdeen Co. 
Ayr 
Edinburgh Co. 
Elgin & Nairn 
Forfar 
Inverness 
Orkney 
Ross & Cromarty 
Shetland 
Wigtown 
Haddington 
Roxburgh (J 
Sutherland 9 
Perth 
Sutherland ^ 
Haddington J 
Argyll 
Banfi' 
Berwick 
Dumbarton 
Edinburgh City 
Fife K. & C. 
Dundee 
Kincardine 
Kirkcudbright 
Go-van 
Linlithgow 
Selkirk & Peebles 
Stirling 
Renfrew ^ 
Caithness $ 
Dumfries ? 
Roxburgh J 
Caithness ^ 
Dumfries S 
Aberdeen City $ 
Bute ? 
Renfrew ? 
Leith 
Lanark 
Glasgow 
Aberdeen City ^ 
Bute $ 
