LONG-HEADED PEOPLE.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1716, 18 January 1905, Page 75 (Supplement)

LONG-HEADED PEOPLE.

To the subject of long-headedness, in its anthropological meaning, Dr J. Deniker. president of the Anthropoligical Society of Paris, has been devoting many years of study. Lecturing before members of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain recently, he gave the results of his invest'gations, embracing data, covering the whole of Europe. Dr Deniker roughly divided Europe into four regions—a region of long-haired people with medium-headed areas in the north-west, a region in the south-west characterised by even greater length of head, a very short-headed region in Western Central Europe, and a region comprising Russia and Poland of moderately long-headed and medium-headed. On the subject of stature, he pointed out that in Europe there are no people of very short stature; on the ether hand the tallest race known is in the Highlands of Scotland. Grouping the peoples of Europe with regard to colour of complexion, eyes, and hair, it was shown that North Europe was mainly blonde, South Europe dark, and Central Europe intermediate. In the intermediate zone blonde areas were rare, but one of these occurred in South England, i.e., Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Hampshire, Sussex, and Middlesex.