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Bracliyccplialce of Asia. 



Ugrians, (Samoiedes, Yakouts, &c.) 



Turks. 



Circassians, and probably a majority of the numerous tribes of the 

 Caucasus. 

 Turcomans, 

 Afghans, 

 Lascars, 



Tartars and Mantchoo-Tartars, f a11 P ro S»athic. 



Mongols, as well in Asiatic Russia as in Mongolia, 

 Malays, 



The "Indian Mongolidse," in Dr. Latham's Varieties of Man, pro- 

 bably belong also to this division. 



These populations embrace all the great Asiatic continent, with the 

 sole exception of the countries of the dolichocephalic organization 

 which I have given above, namely, India, Persia, Arabia, China, and 

 a small part of Siberia, The brachycephalge, however, as before in- 

 dicated, form small communities disseminated through the midst of 

 the dolichocephalic tribes already enumerated. In Asia, then, as in 

 Europe, the brarhyeephalic form of the skull is predominant, but with 

 this difference, that the Asiatic brachycephalas are, the greater part 

 of them, prognathic. 



C. — Forms of the Skull in Australia. 



DolichocephalcB of Australia. 



Australian negroes, all prognathic. 



Our information relative to these people is yet so incomplete that 

 I have not ventured to present a table of denominations, and I limit 

 myself to saying that by the" study alike of the Carolinska Institute 

 collection and of others, and by an examination of many published 

 works, I have acquired the conviction that dolichocephalic tribes exist 

 on nearly all the Australian islands. All the savage nations of the 

 Australian continent proper, New Holland, and of Van Dieman's 

 Land, appear to be prognathic dolichocephalae. On the other isles 

 we find in addition brachycephahe, (Malays, Polynesians, and Papous 

 of G-uoy and Gaimard.) Most frequently these tribes are black or black- 

 ish. Hence the name of Australian negroes has been given them. More- 

 over the form of their skulls resembles altogether that of the negroes. 

 Many of these tribes have the hair closely crisped, but long and, so 

 to say, felted into a bushy perruque; others have it straight. Our 

 collection possesses the skulls of such brought from a great number 

 of the isles of the South Sea and Pacific. They resemble one another 

 in a striking manner, and in general are small, but thick, presenting 

 in this point of view also an approach to the negro type. They are 

 in size much less than the Chinese, but they have, like them, large 

 parietal protuberances which rarely occur among the negroes. Their 

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