The average height of the Eurasians examined by me in Madras, according to my measurements of 130 subjects, is 166.6 cm. (5 feet 5-1/2 inches), and compares as follows with that of the English and various Native classes inhabiting the city of Madras:-- cm. English 170.8 Eurasians 166.6 Muhammadans 164.5 Brahmans 162.5 Pallis 162.5 Vellalas 162.4 Paraiyans 161.9 The height, as might be expected, comes between that of the two parent stocks, European and Native, and had, in the cases examined, the wide range of 30.8 cm., the difference between a maximum of 183.8 cm. (6 feet) and a minimum of 153 cm. (5 feet). The average length of the head was 18.6 cm. and the breadth 14.1 cm. And it is to be noted that, in 63 per cent. of the cases examined, the breadth exceeded 14 cm.:-- Length. Breadth. Index. cm. cm. Brahmans 18.6 14.2 76.5 Eurasians 18.6 14.1 76 Muhammadans 18.7 13.9 76.1 Vellalas 18.6 13.8 74.1 Paraiyans 18.6 13.7 73.6 Pallis 18.6 13.6 73 The breadth of the head is very clearly brought out by the following analysis of forty subjects belonging to each of the above six classes, which shows at a glance the preponderance of heads exceeding 14 cm. in breadth in Eurasians, Brahmans, and (to a less extent) in Muhammadans:-- 12-13 13-14 14-15 15-16 cm. cm. cm. cm. Eurasians ... 11 27 2 Brahmans 1 9 27 3 Muhammadans 2 17 21 ... Vellalas ... 24 16 ... Paraiyans ... 27 13 ... Pallis 3 30 7 ... The head of a cross-breed, it has been said, generally takes after the father, and the breadth of the Eurasian head is a persisting result of European male influence. The effect of this influence is clearly demonstrated in the following cases, all the result of re-crossing between British men and Eurasian women:-- Length. Breadth. cm. cm. 19 14.5 18.4 14.2 19.2 14.2 20.2 14.6 19 14.6 19.4 14.3 ---- ---- Average 19.2 14.4 Eurasian average 18.6 14.1