BY WILLIAM E. ARMIT, F,L.S., F.R.G.S. 95 
There is not, as a rule, any large growth of body-hair, and 
even this is checked and altered by the use of lime, depilation, 
shaving or plucking, but under normal conditions there is 
generally a sufficient and sometimes even strong growth of 
beard, which is mostly composed of very coarse, frizzled, dark 
hair. 
Generally the Papuans, or, as Dr. Finsch prefers to call them, 
the Melanesians, have the appearance of being a powerful well- 
built race of middle size. Their limbs are evenly proportioned, 
the back-bone is bent inward, the belly is generally protuberant, 
owing, no doubt, to an almost entirely vegetable diet, the limbs 
are disposed to fleshiness, as in Polynesians, they lack muscle; 
the calves are generally well developed, but exceptionally, they 
are nearly wanting in individual cases, as in Australians. Very 
fat individuals, so noticeable among Polynesians of advancing 
years, especially in women, are very rare among Papuans, who 
then generally become thin and haggard. 
The peculiar length of the prepuce in men from New Britain 
struck him as very remarkable. It attained a length of 25 m.m. 
to a total length of penis of from 80 to 112 m.m. The head is 
generally well formed, except in those districts where it is 
artificially deformed, the forehead is broad and straight, the 
cheek bones are scarcely prominent, sometimes not more so 
than in Europeans. They are seldom more prognathous than 
whites. The eyes are mostly full, handsome, and dark, the 
whites being always yellowish or blood-shot. The form of nose 
is the same as in the Polynesians, being commonly flat, the tip 
obtusely rounded, with broad, strongly-arched ale, and large, 
oval, slantingly-placed nostrils; but there occur also aquiline, 
and more rarely bent, and even Roman noses, which impart an 
Indian aspect to the physiognomy. The shape of the mouth 
does not differ from that in Polynesians ; the lips are, generally, 
a little full, making the mouth appear rather large, but this 
feature is not seldom as small as in Europeans. The colour of 
