6 Richard J. A. Berry: 



" The Tasmanian teeth have laro-e crowns, thickly covered by 

 enamel, more so than in Europeains. Fangs are not so deeply 

 seated in alveolar sockets, nor does ejiiphysis of maxillary bone 

 come so high as in Europe. Gums are much thicker and make 

 up this loss." The colour of the teeth remarkably white, so 

 much so as to have been greatly envied by i-ome of the earliest 

 French voyagers tu the island. 



Modern methods, with exact measurements and indices, would 

 now enable us by means of Flower's dental index (7) to style 

 these teeth megadont, with an index above 44. 



Regarding the relative proportions of the hair ellipse, Bonwick 

 gives the following table: — 



It is not stated whether these proportions are actual measure- 

 ments of the hair, as viewed microscopically in transverse section 

 or not, but ais it would be difficult to obtain «uch proportions 

 without actual measurements, we may assume for the moment 

 that they represent actual measurements, and apply thereto the 

 index mentioned by Duckworth (8), thus : — 



Duckworth says " the numerical value of this index ha^^ been 

 found to vary between 28 and 100, the lowest figure being pro- 

 vided by the curly hair of an Oceanic (Piupuan) Negro, and the 

 highest by the lank and straight hair of Mongolians.'' He also 

 gives a figure of the cross sections of the hair of a Negi'ito 

 Semang from the Malay Peninsula, where the index is in the one 

 55.2, and in the other 58.9. 



