ANTHROPOLOGY OF ASIA S9 



all the results of Summary II. which are obtained from 

 the measurements taken upon many thousands of indivi- 

 duals (the number of the persons examined can be seen 

 in the Tables), compared to those obtained on a number 

 still more imposing of Xanthoderms (Summary 1), show 

 that the principal difference resides in the diversity of 

 the nasal index. The differende may be seen from the 

 fact that in the nasal index of the Leucoderms the 

 average does never go up to 75, whereas in the Xantho- 

 derms it almost never goes down below 70, which is 

 evidently due to the greater nasal width of the yellow 

 race. This difference is so precise that Pittard gives it 

 among the diagnostic signs for distinguishing the Mongo- 

 loids from those that are not so in anterior Asia l ; it 

 serves us moreover to make the anthropological comparison 

 between the yellow and the white. An important differ- 

 ence may be seen also in the stature, which in the 

 Leucoderms of Asia, always of course in the average, 

 never goes down below 1610 mm., while in the 

 Xanthoderms it goes down so far as 1540 ; in the upper 

 limit, however, there is no difference, so that one may say 

 that this character has a greater range among the yellow 

 people than among the f white. The difference in the 

 ceph. ind. is less marked, because we have in the yellow 

 as well as in the white as many of the dolicho-morphic 

 variety as of the (later) brachy-morphic variety ; the first, 

 however, are rather mesaticephalic in the Xanthoderms, 

 so that the ceph. ind. does not go down, on an average, 

 below 75*9, while in the Leucoderms the minimum in the 



example, that the Curds, the L.isi and the Armenians have no relationship with 

 the Tatars, although they are equally brachycephalic : this absence of affinity 

 follows from the other anthropological characters, which are held therefore in 

 trreater account than the coph. ind. itself, when one pi'ocoeds to the classification <> l 

 larger human groups. 

 1 Ibid., p, 7* 



