ANTHROPOLOGY 489 



Considerable importance in anthropometry is attached to a study of the nose. 

 This is described as being negroid (Form No. 7 of Table in Notes and Queries), broad 

 and fiat, with prominent ahe in all the series examined save the Masai and the Bahima, 

 among whom it is more prominent and more arched. 



The various measurements are most easily contrasted by means of the nasal index 

 obtained by dividing the nasal breadth between the ala?, by the height from the root 

 of the nose to the septum, and multiplying the quotient by 100. This index also may 

 be divided into groups, and the distribution among them of the individuals examined 

 during Sir H. H. Johnston's travels is as follows : — 



By this means a group comprising the Suk, Masai, Andorobo, and to a less degree 

 the Nandi, is clearly separated off from the Bantu, Baganda, Basoga, Wanyamwezi, and 



