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VI. — Contributions to the Craniology of the People of the Empire of India. 

 Part II. The Aborigines of Chilta Ndgpiir and of the Central Provinces, the 

 People of Orissa, the Veddahs and Negritos. By Professor Sir Wm, Turnek, 

 K.C.B., D.C.L., F.R.S. (With Four Plates.) 



(Read July 2, 1900.) 



It is my intention in this, the second part of my memoir on the Craniology of the 

 Races of India, to give the results of my examination of skulls obtained from the 

 districts occupied by the aboriginal tribes in Chiita Nagpur, the Central Provinces, 

 the people in the province of Orissa, and to compare them with the skulls of some 

 other aboriginal people. 



The majority of the specimens described belong to the Indian Museum, Calcutta, 

 and through the courtesy of the Trustees I was permitted to have them on loan 

 for purposes of study. Many of these crania had been those of persons who had 

 died in jail. The names, tribes, and castes, and not unfrequently the age, stature, and 

 other physical characters, had been recorded in the prison books, and were embodied in 

 the lists which were sent to me along with the skulls by the authorities of the museum. 

 Several of these skulls were especially interesting, as having been presented to the 

 museum by Colonel Dalton, the author of the valuable treatise on the Ethnology of 

 Bengal. Other specimens in the museum had been obtained from the Medical College, 

 Calcutta, and several were presented by Professor D. B. Smith ; in all probability they 

 were from bodies which had been used for anatomical purposes. Mr W. H. P. Driver 

 also had presented a series of crania from Ranchi. 



In addition, I have received specimens from former students holding appointments 

 in the Indian Medical Service, and I take this opportunity of acknowledging their 

 courtesy in presenting them to me. 



The descriptions in this part of my contribution to Indian Craniology are based on 

 the examination of one hundred and one skulls, and the measurements are recorded 

 in the series of Tables. 



The works which I have chiefly consulted in drawing up the account of the geo- 

 graphical distribution and tribal characters of the aborigines, are Colonel Dalton's 

 Descriptive Ethnology of Bengal, Calcutta, 1872; Sir W. W. Hunter's Statistical 

 Account of Bengal and Imperial Gazetteer of India ; Sir H. M. Elliot's Memoirs 

 of the Paces of the North- West Provinces of India, edited by John Beames, London, 

 1869 ; Hie Tribes and Castes of Bengal, Ethnographic Glossary, and Anthropometric 

 Data, Calcutta, 1891, by H. H. Risley, I.C.S. ; The Tribes and Castes of the North- 

 western Provinces and Oudh, by W. Crooke, B.A., B.C.S., Calcutta, 1896 ; "India," 

 by Sir Richard Temple in Chambers's Encyclopaedia; Census of India, 1891, General 

 Report by Census Commissioner J. A. Baines, I.C.S. ; Report on the Lower Provinces 

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