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with 4'9 per cent.; Anderston, particularly Sandyford Ward, with 4'8 per cent., to be 
quite in excess of the general average for Greater Glasgow, which is 2'6 per cent, 
of the whole population of the city. Govan is also in excess, having 4'4 per cent, 
of Gaelic speaking people in its population. One seems justified in inferring that 
such a population distributed over Glasgow would have a marked effect on the 
nature of the distribution of colour. Since Glasgow is significantly darker than 
the general population, since dark hair is significantly associated with the Gaelic 
speaking population, and since at least one-ninth of the whole Gaelic speaking 
population resides in Greater Glasgow, the conclusion is inevitable that the Gaelic 
speaking portion contributes largely to the significance of the excess of dark hair. 
It is not contended that this is the whole cause of the significant excess, but it is 
a prominent factor. But it may be argued that blue eyes are in defect in Glasgow 
generally and since blue eyes are also associated with Gaelic speak iug people, their 
presence does not seem, on this hypothesis, to affect the character of the distribu- 
tion. The answer is : it must be borne in mind that the combination of blue eyes 
and fair hair in one person, that is the blonde type, is in great defect in Glasgow, 
thus diminishing the proportion of blue eyes to a great degree. There are also 
large excesses of dark eyes to which it will presently be seen the foreign element 
contributes. These and other factors prevail over the Gaelic factor and the 
theoretical excess of blue eyes is converted into an actual deficiency in this class, 
with one exception only. This exception is the Kelvinside and Partick group. 
Here a highly significant excess of blue eyes appears with an excess of dark hair, 
thus revealing the presence of the Gaelic speaking portion as one of the pre- 
dominant causes of the divergency in these districts, for it has already been 
observed that in Kelvinside alone 6'4 per cent, (the highest percentage in any 
district in Glasgow) of the population speak Gaelic. Presence of excess of light 
eyes among boys in Anderston deserves notice. While it has been observed that 
excess of blue eyes is associated with the Gaelic speaking portion generally, it 
must be noted that Argyll has in its rural population 62 per cent, of Gaelic speaking 
people and has a large excess of light eyes. Excess of this class is therefore a 
characteristic of a section of the Highlands as it has been shown also to be of Ayr 
and Galloway which are closely allied in blood to the Highlands as it formerly was 
in language. It is highly probable that county immigrants and their descendants 
from Argyll, Ayr and Galloway, are at the present time in excess of the general 
proportion in Anderston generally, thus disturbing the balance in favour of an 
excess of light eyes in the boy population. In addition to this, there is the Irish 
element. Beddoe's results, already quoted, show an excess of light eyes in the 
Irish compared with the Scottish figures of the present data. The Gaelic element 
does not however account for excesses of medium hair and dark eyes in Anderston, 
although it would account for the excess of dark hair and light eyes. The general 
analysis shows Perthshire and Forfarshire to have significant excess of dark eyes, 
which has been suggested to account fur the similar excess in Dundee and perhaps 
to some extent to explain the excess of the same class in Edinburgh. Are county 
immigrants and their descendants from these regions in excess also in Anderston 
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