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ALL interested in anthropology and sociology will welcome the recent increase of interest in and the renewal of extensive investigations into the physical characters of the population of the British Isles. The report by Mr. J. F. Tocher on the latest investigation, “A Pigmentation Survey of School Children in Scotland,” carried out under the auspices of a committee of the Royal Society, is the most important that has appeared since the publication of Beddoe's “Races of Britain,” which forms the basis of our knowledge of racial distribution in these islands. The general and local distribution of colour traits in the children has been accuratelv recorded, and the influence of various factors of race and environment determined.
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A Pigmentation Survey of Scotland 1 . Nature 79, 223–224 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/079223a0
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