FROM THE NEW HEBRIDES. CAMERON. 409 



The Cranial Indices and Angles. 



No. 1 Skull No. 2 Skull 



Sphcno-maxillary angle 95. 97 



Cephalic index 64.21 64.32 



Index of height 68. 15 65.57 



Nasal index 50.4 54.9 



Alveohir index 102.05 106.7 



Stephano-zygomatic index 73.17 71.9 



Orbital index 80.7 81.7 



Facial index 50.5 54.6 



Palato-maxillary index 115.4 111.9 



Fronto-parietal index 77.8 72.6 



Calvarial height index 58.4 55.7 



Bregmatic angle 59. 55 



Spheno-ethmoidal angle 151. 151 



Foramino-basal angle 146.5 148 



The Cephalic Index. — The cephalic index was 64.21 for 

 No. 1 Skull and 64.32 in the case of No. 2. They were thus 

 shown to be extreme examples of dolichocephaly, which is 

 the usual condition met with in Melanesian skulls^^^\ Of 

 course such an excessive dolichocephalic condition may 

 be explained partly at least by the fact that in the island 

 of South Malekula, from which these skulls were obtained, 

 the natives, as Dr. Annand states, deliberately apply ban- 

 dages in infancy in order to produce long heads. The above 

 indices closely approximate to the lowest recorded cephalic 

 index the writer can find a reference to, namely, 61.9 which 

 was found by Sir Wm. Flower^^^' in a Fiji islander. It may 

 be mentioned here that the inhabitants of the latter group 

 of islands are also definitely Melanesian, and exhibit the 

 lowest average cephalic index of any tribe or race, namely, 66^^*\ 



It is important to emphasise the fact that the cephalic 

 index taken by itself is no criterion of intellectual capacity. 

 It is true that in the more darkly colored races of mankind, 

 including those with the most primitive type of brain, doli- 



