1 66 LIFE OF FLOWER 



arrive at any satisfactory conclusion on this puzzling 

 question. 



Another point in regard to which Flower's classifica- 

 tion has met with adverse criticism is the position 

 assigned to the brown Polynesians, which some 

 authorities believe to be mainly of Caucasian origin, 

 and accordingly term Indonesians. 



Taken as a whole there can, however, be no ques- 

 tion but that the classification proposed by Sir William 

 was an extremely valuable contribution to systematic 

 anthropology. 



The last two really important contributions to 

 anthropology made by Sir William were both published 

 in 1888 : the one, under the title of "The Pygmy 

 Races of Man," in the Proceedings of the Royal Institu- 

 tion (forming an address) ; and the other, entitled 

 " Description of Two Skeletons of Akkas,a Pygmy Race 

 from Central Africa," in the Journal of the Anthropo- 

 logical Institute. The second of these two communica- 

 tions dealt with two imperfect skeletons : male and 

 female of the pigmy African race known as Akkas, 

 obtained by the late Dr. Emin Pasha at Monbotto 

 during his last expedition. The female specimen, 

 which is the least imperfect of the two, and is said to 

 be that of a very old individual, is now mounted in the 

 Natural History Museum. In general character, the 

 skulls were found to come very close to the Negro type - 3 

 it is true they are somewhat less elongated, but the 

 relative breadth proved to be much less than the 

 describer was led to expect from what had been pre- 

 viously written with regard to the craniology of this 

 tribe. The whole skeleton fully confirmed earlier 



