ANTHROPOLOGY OF ASIA 11 



pure forms) and instead there is a certain projection 

 forward of the whole of the upper face in continuation 

 of the plain given hy the forehead. The mandible is high, 

 wide transversally and with the chin sometimes a little 

 prominent. The face, high and broad as it is, appears of 

 large dimensions." 



Prom the systematic point of view these are all 

 characteristics not deeply marked : they are very little 

 more than the characteristics of a sub-species, even adding 

 the two integumentary characteristics of the cutaneous 

 coloration, more or less yellow in tone, and of the scant 

 hairiness of the body, Although the habitat of this little 

 species is very vast and situated at various terrestrial 

 heights, the internal homogeneity of the characteris- 

 tics is such as to present only slight regional modifications 

 of the type. 



If the morphological facts described above do 

 not permit any subdivisions into varieties and that is 

 natural, since they appertain to all the component parts 

 of the species, H. Asiaticus, there are yet other charac- 

 teristics to be taken into consideration, which might not 

 be the same for all ; these are the shape, short or long, 

 high or low, of the cranium, as appears from diverse 

 indices (ind. of width-length and of height), the stature 

 and the nasal index. Really these characters are the best 

 for the subdivision of H. Asiatic-its, as for the subdivision 

 of other human species, and practically they have been 

 already utilised in the descriptions that have been given 

 (for example, by Deniker) about this or that 'population.' 

 Those summary notices which we read at the end of every 

 description (average stature, ceph. or nas. index, generally 

 of the living) should be completed and collected together 

 in a systematic table. But a systematic exposition of 

 these three characteristics, or better, of their averages 

 eventually also of other characteristics, e.g., the facial 



