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The southern Arabs do not appear in the tables that 

 I have prepared, since they represent an anthropological 

 problem, it being not even quite certain that they are 

 Leucoclermic : those whom I have seen in the battalions 

 of the Erythraean " Ascari " made me suspect that they 

 were not so. At any rate, I can give here some averages 

 about their stature and tlv cephalic index : from 147 

 southern Arabs measured by various authors Seligman l 

 has shown lately that 13 (8 '5^ ) are dolichocephalic, 56 

 (37'5#) mesaticephalic, and 78 (53*3 |f ) brachycephalic. 

 The averages that have been obtained from the various 

 series are as follows : 



SUMMARY V. 

 Southern- Arab*. 



Individual!?. Stature, Ceph. ind. Authors. 



Arabs of Muscat 3J 164-9 78'28 Leys & Joyce. 



Sheher 82 161-6 80'92 



Yemen 20 164* 81'07 



16 163-6 83-50 Livi. 



25 165-1 82-56 Mugnier, 



P T60'5 79*50 Fuccioni. 



The cephalic indices of Livi on account of technical 

 reasons are higher by about one than the indices that 

 I have from other authors : with this correction it will 

 be seen that the data in Summary V correspond exactly 

 to those of Summary IV. for stature as well as cephalic 

 index. 



The doubt that Southern Arabia also owes its tendency 

 to brachycephalism to an ancient negrftoid substratum is 

 made valid by the low stature of the Southern Arabs and 



1 SELIGMAN (C. G,), The Physical Character* of the Arab*, " Journ. R. Authrop 

 hist.," XLVIJ, 1917, p. 218. One finds further results in PrcoioM (N.), Stv-cli fvi 

 material! c aui dati itntropoloinci <-ol elnnyrnfid ecc. " Arh. per f Antrop. e l'Btn. ; " 

 XLVlI f 10l7f XLTX. 1919. 



