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From the geographical relations of the hill-tracts in North-Eastern India, occupied 

 by a dolichocephalic people, to the surrounding countries, where the prevailing type of 

 skull is brachycephalic, it seems more reasonable to conclude that the occurrence of 

 exceptional specimens in a district is due to an intermixture of races possessing different 

 head-forms, rather than to the evolution of a new type, on the one hand, in a dolicho- 

 cephalic race, or, on the other, in a brachycephalic race, — the more so when it is kept 

 in mind that tradition and history point to these countries as having during many 

 centuries been occupied by successive waves of invading people. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATES I. -III. 



The figures in these plates are reproductions of photographs kindly taken for me by Mr W. E. Carnegie- 

 Dickson, B.Sc. 



Fig. 1. Profile of Skull of Lushai from the north hill tracts. G in Table I. 



,, 2. Front view of the same skull. 



„ 3. Profile of skull of Chin. B in Table I. 



„ 4. Front view of the same skull. 



„ 5. Profile of skull of Naga. F in Table II. 



„ 6. Front view of the same skull. 



,, 7. Profile of Gurung skull from Nepal. Table II. 



„ 8. Front view of the same skull. 



„ 9. Profile of Siamese skull. C, Table VII. 



„ 10. Profile of Burmese skull, Tun Tha. Table IV. 



,, 11. Front view of the same skull. 



„ 12. Profile of Burmese skull, Paudun. Table V. 



,, 13. Front view of same skull. 



„ 14. Profile of a Burmese skull from an old cemetery, Upper Burma. Table VI. 



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