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particularly the apparent breadth of the pelvic region, which 
the photographs with the next two, which show the same 
region in a young Anglo-Indian (fig. 3, pl. V) and in a young 
the body is almost as slim and the shoulders slope nearly as 
much, but you will see if you will compare the lines of the 
neck that the sloping shoulders are due toa sedentary occu- 
pation and not to any essential peculiarity of the skeleton, 
and you will also see that the apparent breadth of the pelvis 
and less curved at their upper extremity.’ In the other 
Javanese the differences are still greater and the difference in 
racial type is equally apparent, though here the two men are 
nominally of the same race. 
Some may think that in insisting on characters that cannot 
be measured | am wasting time. Even the mos rigid up- 
holder of pure anthropometry would hardly venture nowadays 
(except in India) to ignore the descriptive characters of his 
subjects. My point is that our conception of these characters 
should be revised, that they should be given a more prominent 
Supposing that we have evolved an ideal scheme? in which 
anthropometry and what I may perhaps call “ anthroposcopy ” 
1 The type of thigh possessed by the first Javanese is, I believe, the 
type called ** grasshopper thigh’’ by the Malays. See Skeat’s Malay 
Magic. 
2 Valuable suggestions for a scheme of the kind are to be found, 
though not put forward as such, in Prof. Keith’s paper on two des- 
eeandants of the ‘ Bounty’ mutineers in Man XVII, No. 88 (1917). 
