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palatal index is no less than 1407. The palate is therefore markedly of 

 the parabolic form. In this sknll it is also very high. The maxilte are 

 narrowest iu the dolichocephalic female. lu all cases the posterior edge 

 of the vomer slopes considerably forwards as well as downwards. 



The characters of the mandible can bo only imperfectly studied, it 

 being lost in some instances and much atrophied in others. The chief 

 character seems to be the absence of prominence of the chin : the sym- 

 phesial angle is consequently high, approaching a right angle. 



Dentition is normal in all the skulls except the male No. 4, in which the 

 last upper molars, or wisdom teeth, are absent from non-development. 

 The sknll is known, however, to Mr. Forbes to have belonged to a man be- 

 yond middle age. , The last molars have not been f ally acquired in the skull 

 of the youth No. 11. In size the teeth are large but not abnormally so, 

 and are stained bl ick in two of the male skulls, Nos. 4 and 10, and in the 

 female skulls, Nos. 7 and 1. In the male No. 10, the upper incisors and 



NORMa; FRONTALIS ET LATERALIS 07 THE FEMALE DOLIOHOOErHALIC SKULL, NO 1. 

 (with THE FERMISSIGN OP THE COUNCIL OF THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE.) 



canines have been filed away on the anterior surface, and stained black, 

 making them more spade-like. This custom of deforming the teeth, and 

 staining them, is practised very commonly in Java and Birma, and else- 

 where. The incisors and canines being absent in the other male skulls, it 

 is impossible to say whether these teeth were deformed in them also. 

 In the females there is a trace of a similar deformation in No. 2, but the 

 filed teeth are not stained artificially. Grinding down the anterior upper 

 and lower teeth horizontally, and staining them, seems to have been 

 practised in Nos. 1 and 9. In the other skulls the teeth have been lost, 



Belalion of the inhabitants of Timor-laut to those of adjacent countries. — 

 That the skulls just described are not those of a pure race is very evident. 

 Two very distinct types can be made out, namely, the braohycephalic and 

 the dolichocephalic, the former greatly predominating in numher. Both 

 from the information Mr. Forbes has giren us as to their appearance, and 

 from the skulls themselves, there is no difficulty in recognising a strong 



