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to have it soon with the progress which Anthropology 

 is making in India, where the official teaching of 

 this science has already been initiated and has been trust- 

 ed to natives of the country, who are the most likely to 

 know themselves and their past. 



The Pre-Dravidians were followed by a finer type : al- 

 though dark-skinned, the nose was less wide and not so deep 

 at the root as in the Veddahs, and the profile much less 

 prognathous, really almost orthognathous. Tt is the 

 Dravidian type, akin to Ethiopian (not Xegroid, but in 

 our sense-!). 



If we arrange a series of jungle tribes in the order of 

 descending nasal index, it will be seen, as we advance 

 from the platyrrhiny to the mesorrhiny that there is 

 an increase in the proportion per cent, of the Dravidian 

 type, which we consider as mesorrhine, as contrasted with 

 the type of their predecessors whom we consider as pla- 

 tyrrhine. This is seen in Summary VI taken from Tables 

 A. and B of Thurston. 



SUMMARY VI. 



Tribes of the Southern Indian Jimfjles. 



