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by Broca and Flower it is 72-45, in sixteen Negrofs (Brooa) 69'79, and in 

 nineteen Andamanese (Flower) 69'8. In this index also the variation 

 in the Kubus from the Europeans is in an opposite direction to that of 

 the Negroes and the Andamanese. 



The femoro-tibial index, or the ratio of the tibia to the femur, the 

 latter being taken as 100, is 807 in the Kubu, 82'1 in the European 

 (Flower), 84'7 in the Negro (Humphrey), and 84'5 in the Andamanese 

 (Flower). 



The humero-radial index, or the length of the radius compared to the 

 humerus, the latter being taken as 100, is 74-1, in Europeans (Broca and 

 Flower) 73-9, in Negroes (Broca) 79 4, and in Andamanese (Flower) 81'0. 



Relations of the Kubus to other Races. 



I have already said that on comparing the two skulls side by side, one 

 is struck with the close resemblance they bear to one another. There is 

 quite as close a resemblance between these two skulls as exists between 

 Andamanese skulls. Such a condition occurring in a sufSciently large series 

 would indicate purity of race, or at least isolation for a long period of 

 years. Unfortunately the number of Kubu skulls before us is not 

 sufficiently large to justify very deiinite statements regarding them, 

 though I think sufficient to answer one question which presents itself 

 to us for solution : namely, as to what race the Kubus are allied — whether 

 they possess Negrito or Malayan affinities. The character, of the hair, 

 the form of the nose, the various characters of the skull, and the pro- 

 portion of the limb bones show that they cannot have any near affinity 

 to the Negrito race found in various parts of the Indo-Malayan Archi- 

 pelago, but that they are decidedly Malays, and therefore Mongoloid. 

 The high nasi-malar angle, the high and broad face, the flat forehead 

 owing to absence of all glabellar and superciliary ridges, the slight sub- 

 glabellar nasal depressions, and the nomadic life they lead, are all highly 

 characteristic of the Mongolian race. 



The frizzle in the hair seen in the drawings by Mr. Forbes is probably 

 to be accounted for by their having at some remote period intermingled 

 slightly with the Negrito people, possibly during their migration 

 southward. There is, however, evidence that they have for a long period 

 been isolated from the other surrounding inhabitants of the island, and 

 that by absence of infusion of fresh blooj they have come to resemble one 

 another so closely that they now possess certain definite characteristics of 

 a more or less stable nature. It is, however, very desirable that these 

 observations should be extended by a study of a larger quantity of 

 material from which to gather information than has been at my disposal. 

 In the meantime we have to thank Mr. Forbes for the trouble he has been 

 at to secure what must be considered a very valuable addition to our 

 specimens illustrating the osteology of the Indo-Malayan Archipelago. 



[From the Journal of the Anthropological Institute for November, 

 1884.] 



