2062. Record of Family Faculties. be presumed that the children suffered from want of nourishment both before and immediately after their births. (7) Height, when adult. This affords some confirmatory indication of race; it may also give a clue to differences in nurture in the same family, and should be considered n conjunction with the subject of the last paragraph. Whenever measurements have been made and recorded at the time, they are of course the most desirable data; it should be stated whether they were made with the shoes on or off. But when there is no other guide beyond what memory affords of the general appearance, such terms as tall, very tall, middle height, &c., must be used instead. Any accessible facts concerning the stature at different ages should be recorded. Colour of Hair when adult. Experience shows that the medium tints are not recorded in a uniform manner, but that persons are apt to consider the medium tint in their locality as that of England generally. Thus the same hair would be differently named by a man in Devonshire and by one in Glasgow; a tint that would seem light to the first would seem dark to the second. The hair of children darkens considerably as they grow older, even up to the time when it begins to turn grey. The colour of such locks of hair as may have been preserved as mementos is apt to fade and those that have been worked into bracelets and lockets are usually coloured artificially. Much judgment has in consequence to be exercised before making these returns. Decided cases of dark and of fair hair and eyes, such as "hair dark, eyes hazel or black," or "hair light, eyes blue or gray," are more exempt from these sources of error, and are proportionately valuable. The Colour of the Eyes is more persistent throughout life than that of the hair. The colour of the hair is of interest in connection with the question which has been raised whether the English race as a whole is not becoming more dark-haired. There is no [italics][acute accent over 'a'] priori[end italics] improbability in the fact. The recent and rapid changes in English habits must have caused certain sub-types to prevail in the struggle for existence, that were repressed before, and it is of interest to know what these sub-types are. The colour of the hair of animals is often found to be intimately correlated with their power or incapacity to thrive under certain conditions, and it may well be the same in the case of man. Again, it is undoubtedly the fact 7 [end]