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SCHLAGINHAUFEN brings to the front, how shortness and tendency to brachycephaly increase 

 when travelling inland from the coast. Moreover he exposes in a very meritoreous way, how 

 his Papuans of the Torricelli-mountains who for their standing-height of 151,9 cm. belong to 

 the smallest tribes known of New-Guinea, differed principally less from a non-pigmoïd coast- 

 tribe than the latter did from other coast-tribes. He adds: "Dies spricht nicht fiir die rassen- 

 màssige selbstàndigkeit dièses Gebirgsvolkes". This conclusion does not Sound very favourably 

 for NEUHAUSS' Pigmies! Nor did I find proves for the independence of my mountain-Papuans. 



So the supposition loses ground that there should be a dwarfish élément of quite an 

 own nature among the taller Papuans; an élément, emerging in the interior as a distinct 

 race. The contra-distinction "Pigmy" ■ — resp. Negrito — to "Papuan" has to give place to 

 the intimate relation of "Negrito" and "Papuan". In my opinion, the Négritie élément, appa- 

 rently more prominent in the pigmoïd tribes, but constituting the principal substratum ot 

 ail the Papuans, is by no means conform with the old-fashioned "typical" Pigmy; the 

 Negrito need not hâve been- dwarfish, neither brachycephalic, nor showing an infantile habitus, 

 but only dark, crisp-haired, euryprosope, chamaerrhine and small. Leaving alone their original 

 headform, on which we are poorly informed, and their pigmy-stature, which appears proble- 

 matic, we escape the sphère of spéculation. 



It will be left to further investigation, if the Négritie Race, disabused of Pigmy- 

 theories, can be traced as the fundamental stock of Australasia. And secondly, if the Dravido- 

 Veddaïc waves, irradiated from Hindostan and having touched New-Guinea's coasts probably 

 more than once, carrying along sometimes more, sometimes less Caucasian or Négritie blood, 

 may hâve provided the other élément for the Papuan Race. To this might be ascribed, on 

 the one hand, the prépondérance of the Négritie features and, on the other hand, the lank 

 hair, revealed by PARKINSON in Bougainville. the fair persons, met with by HAGEN, SCHELLONG 

 and NEUHAUSS, the light skin, seen in the Gulf-hinterland and last not least the Semitic 

 nose and the European-looking features, observed everywhere in Melanesia. 



on page 12 of his very récent essay [181] makes this mistake, though for the rest observing in good reason that generally 

 the travellers describe their small men as well developed. I too consider the Timorini as such and Reed is, in my 

 knowledge, the only traveller of the présent who gives of his Negritoes another statement. 



