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IN “L'Anthropologie,”tome v. (1894) Dr. Beddoe has published the results of his work on the cephalic index of the inhabitants of Great Britain and Ireland. Part of his work deals with the cephalic indices of the Cambridge under graduates, which were placed at his disposal by J. Venn, F.R.S. He has also inquired into their height and weight, classing them in accordance with their place of origin; but he has taken no account of the colour of the eyes of these under graduates, and so I thought it would be as well to continue his researches, now that there is more material to hand, paying especial regard to the colour of the eyes. It will be seen by a glance at the table appended that it is in a mere fraction of the total number that the eyes are described as “light.”This is due to the standard of comparison afforded by the Anthropometrical Committee of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, and is a disadvantage which does not apply to the dark eyes, and it is therefore by confining our attention to the percentages of the dark eyes in the various groups that we get our best results.
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HORTON-SMITH, R. The Ethnology of the British Upper Classes. Nature 53, 256–257 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/053256b0
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