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palatal index is no less than 1407. The palate is therefore markedly of 

 the parabolic form. In this skull it is also very high. The maxillai aro 

 narrowest in the dolichocephalic female. In all cases the posterior cilge 

 of the vomer slopes considerably forwards as well as downwards. 



The characters of the mandible can be only imperfectly stndied, it 

 being lost in some instances and much atrophied in others. The chief 

 character seems to be the absence of prominence of the chin: the sym- 

 IJhesial angle is consequently high, approaching a right ftnglc. 



Dentition is normal in all the skulls except the male No. 4, iu'^vhichthc 

 last upper molars, or Tsisdom teeth, are absent from non-development. 

 The skull is known, however, to Mr. Forbes to have belonged to a man be- 

 yond middle age. The last molars have not been fully acquired in the skull 

 of the youth No. 11. In size the teeth aro larcre but not abiiurmally so, 

 and are stained blick in two of the male skulls, Nos. 4 and lU, and in the 

 female skulls Nos. 7 and 1. In the male No. 10, the upper incisors and 



NORM.^ FRON'TATJS ET LATEUAUS OP THE FEMAt.E DOMruOCErHALTC SKCLL, NO 1. 



(with the PERMTSSTOX of the COrXCIL OF THE ANTHUOPiJLOGICAL INSTITtTE.) 



canines have been filed away on the anterior surface, and stained black, 

 making them more spade-like. This custom of deforming the teeth, and 

 staining them, is practised very commonly in Java and Birma. and else- 

 where. The incisors and canines l>eing absent in tlic other male skulls, it 

 is impossible to say whether these teeth were deformed in them nNo. 

 In the females there is a trace of a similar deformation in No. 2. but the 



filed teeth arc not stained artificially. Grinding down the anterior upper 

 and lower teeth horizontally, and staining them, seems to have boon 

 practised in Nos. 1 and 9, In the other skulls the teeth have l)oen lost, 



BeJation of the inhahJfnvtH of Timovlaut to those of adjacent ronntrles. — 



Tliat the skulls just described are not those of a pure race is very evident. 

 Two very distinct types can Ix? made out, namely, the bra^liycephalic and 

 the dolichocephalic, the former greatly predominating in number. Both 

 from the information Mr. Forbes has giren us as to tlieir api)carance,and 

 from the skulls themselves, there is no difficulty in rccuicxuiing a strong 



