ANTHllOPOLOGY 



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

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

 and Hat, with prominent alie in all the series examined save the Masai and the Bahima, 

 among whom it is more ])rominent and more arched. 



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

 obtained by dividing the nasal breadth lietween the ala', by the height from the root 

 of the nose to the sejitum, and multijdying the quotient by lUO. 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 Xandi, is clearly .separated off from the Bantu, Baganda, Basoga, Wanyamwezi, and 



