162 ON THE WEDDO OF CEYLON. 



large question of the affinities of the Dravidian races of Continental 

 India to the Weddo of Ceylon, Professor Kolleston referred to the 

 papers on Indian Ethnology in the ' Journal of the Ethnological 

 Society,' July 1869, by Sir Walter Elliott, George Campbell, Esq., 

 Dr. Campbell, and others. 



[Professor Flower has given in his Osteological Catalogue of the Human Crania in 

 the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England the measurements of eight 

 crania said to be Veddah or Weddo skulls. Four of these specimens have been 

 described by Mr. George Busk in the • Proc. Linn. Soc.' 1862. The cephalic indices 

 of these crania presented a great range of variation, from dolichocephalism to brachy- 

 cephalism. The mean of the eight specimens was 72 ; whilst the maximum cephalic 

 index was 83 and the minimum 67. — Editor.] 



