The First Outlines of a Systematic 

 Anthropology of Asia 



( Witli Tables of Stature, Cephalic Index and Nasal 

 Index of living subjects.) 



BY 



PROF. Y. GlUFFRLDA-RUGGERI. 



Translated from Italian 



BY 



HARANCHANDRA CHAKLADAR, M.A., 



REVISED BY THE AUTHOR WITH ADDITIONS. 



INTRODUCTION 



A fact which is of great importance for the future of 

 anthropology and which has escaped the notice of super- 

 ficial observers of the anthropological movement of those 

 who seek for some anatomical novelty, losing sight of the 

 true scope and object of our studies is the new compila- 

 tion made in late years of anthropological tables much 

 more extensive and ample than the old and antiquated 

 ones of Topinard (and this has naturally followed from 

 the accumulation of the huge mass of materials that have 

 been recently studied). It may well be conceived that 

 if these old tables, although incomplete, have in the past 

 been of so much service whenever one undertook the soma- 

 tic study of any population of the earth, so much more 

 will the new tables, which represent an incomparably 



