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As will be seen, in this summary the Tcdas do not 

 appear beside the Ainus, notwithstanding that De Quatre- 

 fages and Sergi have placed them together, which probably 

 the former \vould not have done, if he had known the 

 remarkable points of difference that have since been 

 ascertained. The stature, the somatic proportions and the 

 facial aspect, specially with regard to the nose and the 

 cheek-bones, all give a very different morphology which 

 the hyper trichy succeeds in covering insufficiently and 

 only at first sight. 1 The Todas therefore are placed 

 among the unclassified of Tables IV (occupying a posi- 

 tion very near the maximum height), Y and VI, it not 

 being possible, on account of their marked occidental 

 physical aspect, to place them outside the Leucoderms, 2 

 if ethnic anthropology corresponds to something concrete 

 rather than being simply subjective, 



A last hypothesis about the Ainus has been started by 

 Bonarelli ; he says, " I am of opinion that Tibet was in- 

 habited originally by a human type of the Indo-Irano- 

 Mediterranean group who afterwards pushed on as far as 

 Japan where the still living Ainus appear to be their 

 modern descendants. In other words, I do not see that 

 these Proto-Iranoids could have advanced as far as Japan 

 (leaving in China evident traces of their passage), by any 

 other way than the Tibetan region." 8 Jt seems to me 



I The hypothetic " Toda-Ainu " has been criticised also from the geonemic 

 point of view by BIASUTTI (op. cit., p. 115, note 4). He notes (ibid, p. 61) moreover, 

 that the nasal index of the Ainus taken by Koganei cannot be made use of, like the 

 others that are ordinarily taken, and therefore the average given by Koganei, 

 evidently too low, does not appear in our summary IX. 



II As something rather comic, may be cited what we read on p. 116 of the treatise, 

 Les races humainei published about 1910 on the Todas, who are said to be related 

 by their hairiness to the Australians, by the formation of their head to the ancient 

 Romans, and, lastly, considered " to be the most ancient race of India having 

 preserved some of the pecnlinrities of the Negritos." Happily the author has 

 remained anonymous. 



8 BON RELLI (ft.), Alc.nni problemi d'antr apologia sistematica, "Anal . Soc. Cient. 

 Argent," T. LXXXV, Buenos Ayres, 1918, p. 48, 



