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the Kartvelian and Georgian group. 1 This decision 

 appears to us perfectly logical : the affinity between the 

 Armenians, the brachicephalic Curds, the Lasi, the 

 Aissori, perhaps also the Bektasci of Licia and the 

 Kyzilbaseh of Mesopotamia is much greater than that 

 between them and the Georgians ; the first are all brachi- 

 cephalous and in stature lower than the average, so that 

 it appears reasonable that they should be collocated in a 

 sub-variety as will be seen in our Table IV. 



With the first, one may consider related, some of the 

 populations of Syria : the Metuals of Lebanon, the Ansari 

 of Antioch ; Chantre 2 shows both of them as related to 

 the Curds, and this may be accepted perhaps as referring 

 to the brachycephalic Curds. According to von Luschan 

 here are to be added also the Druses, the Maronits, and 

 also those Semites who present the Armenoid type, about 

 whom, notably among the Kyzilbaseh, he disclaims abso- 

 lutely any aitilidnl influence. 3 The flat occipital form, 

 in which the occiput comes straight down is accompanied 

 by a rather high cranium. Pittard, although he denies 

 that deformation has influence on the ceph. ind., since the 

 deformation is not identical in all cases, nevertheless 

 admits that it is there, and affirms that it consists princi- 

 pally " of a fronto-occipital compression making the 

 parietal and the superior occipital region project more or 

 less." 4 Chantre also is very explicit about the influence, 

 as he admits, of infantile deformation, with regard to 

 the Aissori, 5 the Lasi, 6 and the Aderbaijani, etc., 7 as follows 



1 PITTARD (E.), Anthrofologie De la Ronmanie, etc. : Les Lazes " Bull Soc Roum. 

 des Sciences " XIX, n. 5, pp. 918, 936, Bucharest, 1910. 



CHANTRE (E.), Recherches anthropologiqu.es dans I'Asie occidentals, loc. cit., p. 169. 



VON LUSCHAN (F.). loc. cit., p. 233. 



PITTARD (E.), Anthroplogie de la Roumanie, etc., Les Lazes, loo cit., p. 916. 



CHANTRE (E.), Recherches anthropulogiques dans I'Asie occidentals, loc. cit.. 

 p. 224. 



CHANCRE (E.), Recherches anthropologiques sur le Cauca.se, T. IV., cit., p. 91, 



Ibid., p. 248. 



