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crania consequently presenting an almost " orang-utan 

 physiognomy." So also Prof. I'lower ^ tells us that the 

 Andamanese cranium is " as distinct as possible" from 

 the Melanesian, and on all the available evidence he 

 seems disposed to regard these islanders as "representing 

 an infantile, undeveloped or primitive form of the type 

 from which the African Negroes on the one hand, and 

 the Melanesians on the other .... may have sprung.'' 

 The relations of the Negritos to the Papuans, long a 

 vexed question in anthropology, may thus be regarded as 

 finally settled by the most competent authorities. One 



Fig. I. — Ape-hke lype, Java. Ardi of Buitenzorg. 



doubtless, originally, they must now be regarded as two 

 distinct species in the relative sense involved in our 

 definition of that term. C. Staniland Wake also points 

 out another important feature in which the two races 

 differ. The Papuans proper, and especially the Melane- 

 sians of Fiji, New Caledonians and Solomon Islanders, 

 are frequently furnished with well-developed beards, 

 whereas the Andamanese and all other true Negritos, 

 are absolutely beardless. " The absence of the beard 

 seems to be characteristic of all the Negrito peoples, and 

 this trait may in my opinion be sifely added to the con- 



FiG 2 — Andamanese lype. 

 Mourning Head-dress. 



elusions of de Quatrefages touching the small black races 

 of the Archipelago." - 



The ape-like appearance of the Aetas, already spoken 

 of by de la Gironniere, and now insisted on by Virchdw, 

 receives a startling illustration from the accompanying 

 portrait (Fig. l) of a Javanese Kalang named Ardi, 



' In paper "On the Osteoli^gy and Affinities cf the Natives of the 

 Andamanese Islands," in Joityuat of Anthropological Institute, November, 

 1879, pp. 132-3. 



- La l'a?-l'e considi'rce coinmc caj-actcre de racrs, in Kez: n'Aitthrop. 



recently if not still employed as a workman in the famous 

 Buitcnzorg (Sans-Souci) Botanic Gardens near Batavia. 

 Here he was seen by C. B. H. von Rosenberg in 1S71, 

 and reproduced at p. 569, vol. iii. of that naturalist's 

 work on the "Malay Archipelago" from an original 

 photograph by van Musschenbroek, which has also been 



Fig. 4. — Full-blood Papuan Type. North-west Coast New Guinea. 



figured on an enlarged scale in Dr. A. B. iSIeyer's mono- 

 i;raph on the " Kalangs of Java.'' Notwithstanding its 

 startling ape-like appearance all doubt as to the correct- 

 ness of the portrait is removed by the independent testi- 

 mony of \'on Rosenberg and van Musschenbroek, the 

 latter of whom informs me through Prof. Veth of Leyderi 



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In.. 5.— Full blood Papuan Ijpe. North west Coast lnew Guihea. 



(Letter, October 16, iSSo), that "he has met with the 

 same type in other parts of Java, though not so pro- 

 nounced, and that it could always be tr.'xeJ to a Kalang 

 origin." He adds that "this race is fading away and 

 that the intermi.\ture w ill'. Common Javanese has become 



