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differing perceptibly in size. And this accords very "well 

 with what we know of their mental activity and capacity for 

 civilization. 



The Australians have the longest skulls ; after which come the 

 Negroes ; then the Papuans, the Polynesiaus, and the ]\Ialays. 



The Australians have also the lowest skulls ; then the JSTegroes ; 

 the Polynesians and Papuans considerably higher and equal, and 

 the Malay the highest. 



It seems probable, therefore, that if we had a much more exten- 

 sive series of crania the averages might furnish tolerably reliable 

 race-characters, although, owing to the large amount of individual 

 variation, they would never be of any use in single examples, 

 or even when moderate numbers only could be compared. 



So far as this series goes, it seems to agree well with the 

 conclusions I have arrived at, from physical and mental cha- 

 racters observed hy myself. These conclusions briefly are : that 

 the Malays and Papuans are radically distinct races ; and that 

 the Polynesians are most nearly allied to the latter, although they 

 have probably some admixture of Malayan or Mongolian blood. 



LANGUAGES. 



During my travels among the islands of the Archipelago, I col- 

 lected a considerable number of vocabularies, in districts hitherto 

 little visited. These represent about fifty-seven distinct languages 

 (not including the common Malay and Javanese), more than half 

 of which I believe are quite unknown to philologists, while only 

 a few scattered words have been recorded of some others. 

 Unfortunately, nearly half the number have been lost. Some 

 years ago I lent the whole series to the late Mr. John Crawford, 

 and having neglected to apply for them for some months, I 

 found that he had in tbe meantime changed his residence, and 

 that the books, containing twenty-five of the vocabularies, had 

 been mislaid ; and they have never since been recovered. Being 

 merely old and much battered copy-books, they probably found 



