'1903-4.] Mr N. Annandale on the People of the Faroes. 9 
vticus,” but the fact remains that the facial index he calculates 
.from these measurements differs considerably from that which I 
obtain from the nasio-mental length and bizygomatic breadth. Of 
course we measured different individuals, possibly from different 
islands — though at present I am only considering the thirty-three 
.men from his series to whom I have referred — and I have known 
the facial index to be very different in two villages no further 
apart than, say, Thorshavn and Klagsvig, but this was in the 
Malay Peninsula, in a district where there was far more reason to 
suspect admixture of foreign blood in different degrees in neigh- 
bouring localities ; and the difference in the figures between the 
two series from the Faroes, without including Suderoe, is so great 
that I cannot help thinking that either my own measurements, 
Dr Jprgensen’s, or both, must have been taken in a manner not 
altogether satisfactory. The mean index of his thirty-three sub- 
jects, calculated from the figures he gives, is about 11 per cent, 
lower than that of my series ; and while he makes a very large 
proportion of his subjects mesoprosopic, 1 and a considerable pro- 
portion actually chamaeoprosopic, 1 eleven out of my twenty are 
leptoprosopic, 1 five mesoprosopic, and only four chamaeoprosopic. 
In his series no man has a face of which the length even approaches 
closely to the breadth, and the mean of his series is chamseopro- 
sopic, while that of mine is leptoprosopic. This is a very consider- 
able difference ; and although the facial index taken on the skull 
is probably, at any rate in normal individuals, considerably higher 
than if taken on the living individual, as the combined thickness 
of the soft tissues on both sides of the face is probably greater 
than that of the soft tissues at the tip of the chin, yet I am 
inclined to think that the Faroe men have narrower faces than Dr 
Jprgensen’s figures would suggest, though it is quite possible that 
my own data may err in the opposite direction. What strikes one 
in a visual examination in the faces of a group of Faroemen, as 
distinguishing them at a glance from those of the Icelanders, and, 
to a less extent, from that of one type of Dane, is the narrow- 
ness of the zygomata, and the oval outline longitudinally. 
It should be noted, however, that in Icelanders the cheek bones 
1 My usage of these terms is that adopted by Sir William Turner in his 
.recent papers {Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh , vol. xl. } 1903, partiii. pp. 605, 606). 
