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among the unclassified in Tables I, II, and III, and if 

 confronted with the fundamental summary about H. 

 Asiaticus which is our Summary I, it is seen at once that 

 their nasal index is too high. Instead, the Formosans fit 

 exactly by stature, cephalic index and nasal index into 

 the frame of the H. Asiaticus protomorphus, who include 

 much of the population of Assam, the Miao-tse and 

 Lu-ts& of the Cuang-so and other neighbouring tribes 

 (Lissu, Lolo), considered for a long time as the most 

 primitive populations of this sub-Chinese region. 



We have evidently here a dolicho-rnesaticephalic 

 type, which Hrdligka finds also in a large portion of Tibet, 

 in Mongolia, in various parts of Siberia and this study 

 of ours confirms it (vide Tables I, II, and III) and 

 who are not entirely wanting, neither in China nor in 

 Corea, nor in Japan. Only we observe that in all these 

 regions it is less platyrrhine than in south-east China 

 (and much less platyrrhine than in the Philippines); so 

 that it is necessary to decide whether the existence of 

 the platyrrhine character is explained by the greater 

 primitivity of these southern populations, or whether it 

 is explained by an admixture that occurred with another 

 human type, which presented the platyrrhine feature 

 among its morphological characters. 1 



The recent work of Williams 2 gives us an idea of the 

 ethnic stratification which seems to be found in S.E. 

 Asia. Williams holds that toAvards 1100 B.C. Burmah, 



1 For the Igorots measured by Kroeber, to which the nas. iiicl. of Table III 

 refers, there can be uo doubt that we are dealing with an admixture with the 

 Negritos as we have an average of 99'8, max. 135'5 and miu. 82'G : I therefore 

 the unreliable nature of euch data is well known to us place them among the 

 unclassified. The pure type (or Bontoc Igorots) has certainly not BO high a nas. 

 ind. : it iB only necessary to see their portraits published by Beau, Worcester, 

 Yenks, and others, as is suggested in the "Amer. Journ. Fhys. Anthrop.", Vol. II, 

 1919, p. 442. 



2 WILLIAMS (E. T.), The Origins of the Chineae, '' Auier. Journ. Phye. Anthrop." 

 Vol. 1, 1918, u. 2. 



