7- Opening Address in a Discussion on the Value of 
Bodily Measurements in Distinguishing Human Races. 
By N. Annanpatez, D.Sc., F.A.S.B., Zoological Survey 
of India. 
(With Plates III—VI). 
[Indian Science Congress, Nagpur, Jan. 1920.] 
racial types as having once been specifically distinct. Be this 
Further, granted that race is primarily and essentially a 
physical thing, the term is used by anthropologists in two 
different senses, one general the other particular. We talk of 
the three great races of mankind, the Ethiopian, the Mongo- 
lian and the Caucasian or Indo-European; but we also talk 
of the Munda race, or the Bengali race, or the Tai, or even the 
Siamese race. In either case a race is something different from 
