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are dolichocephalic, four are mesaticephalic, and one is brachy- 

 cephalic. This last skull is that of a male Kabuli, from Kabul. 

 The indices of the majority lie between 68 and 74. 



Vertical index. 



This ranges from 67"61 to 80"2. Seven of the skulls are tapeino- 

 cephalic ; fourteen are metriocephalic ; two are akrocephalic. The 

 most akrocephalic is the skull of the male Kabuli. The indices 

 of the majority lie between 70 and 75. 



Gnathic index. 



This ranges from 86"00 to 101 '06. Eighteen of the skulls are 

 orthognathous, five are mesognathous, and none are prognathous. 

 There are two skulls with indices of 101 06 and 100 respectively. 

 These belong to a Dhanuk male and a Rajput male respectively. 



Nasal index. 



This ranges from 41*07 to 67'50. Twelve of the skulls are 

 leptorhine, six are mesorhine, and five are platyrhine. In one low 

 caste Hindoo male the index is 67*52. It is separated widely from 

 the next, which is 54"90. 



Risley, in his book on the Tribes and Castes of Bengal, 

 (Vol. I., Ethnographic Glossary, p. xxxiv), says, "Thus, it is scarcely a 

 paradox to lay down as a law of the caste organisation in Eastern 

 India that a man's social status varies in inverse ratio to the width 

 of his nose." He was led to this conclusion from a vast number of 

 observations taken on the living in several districts, including 

 the Panjab, the North-West Provinces and Oudh. While this 

 may be true for the nose in the flesh, the present observations on 

 the dry skull do not show that there is a corresponding length of 

 the nasal skeleton in the higher castes, but as they are only taken 

 from a series of twenty-three skulls their value is small. The 

 following is a list of the skulls, with their castes, arranged in order 

 of the value of their nasal indices. 



