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among themselves, subject to the same conditions of life, the na- 

 tives of the Great Andaman have preserved a uniformity of breed 

 which we might compare to that of an animal race reared under a 

 careful direction. The two sexes living exactly the same kind of 

 life, it is not surprising that many of the differences which, in 

 other countries, distinguish man from woman, should have dis- 

 appeared. . 



The measurements, necessarily approximative, taken of the young 

 girl placed in the centre of one of Mr. Dobson's groups, have 

 given me, regarding general proportions, a little over seven heads 

 for the total height of the body. I had found the same ratio in ex- 

 amining the portrait of Jack Andaman, published by M. Molt at. ( x ) 

 In that respect, the Mincopies come very close to the Egyptian 

 " Term " ( 2 ) measured by Gerard Audran ; and, as their heads 

 are at the same lime broader, they look larger as compared with the 

 rest of their bodies. 



The same characteristic is found again among Aetas. I was, 

 however, able to measure but one of the individuals photo- 

 graphed by M. Montano, the others having a too abundant crop 

 of hair. His total height is hardly seven times the length of the head ; 

 and, as far as- I can judge, the proportion seems to be the same 

 with regard to the Sakais of M. de Saint Pol-Lias. 



There is nothing surprising in this. Qttetelet has well explained 

 how, in our own country, this ratio changes and varies according 

 to age and size. In the case of a child or a dwarf ( 3 ) the proportion 



G. Busk in England, by M. Pbuxer-Bey and myself in France. I gave an 

 historical and detailed account of it in my Etude sur les Mincopies (1872). 

 In the present instance, I will only mention the works published since then. 



(1) Selection, of the Records of the Government of India, No. XXV— The 

 Andaman Islands, Pref., p. xi, and frontispiece. 



(a) According to the famous artist, this "Term" has T^-f heads. The 

 Pythian Apollo, who represents the other extreme of the measurements made 

 by Audeax, has 7-f-f heads. One knows that Audran divided the head into 

 ten equal parts, which were again sub-divided into twelve minutes. In order to 

 establish an easier term of comparison, I have reduced those fractions to the 

 same denominator. 



(3) We mean here real dwarfs, and not the microcephalous beings too 

 often confounded with them. I have already dwelt on this distinction in 

 a note concerning the real dwarf who exhibited himself under the name of 

 "Prince lthazar." (Bulletin de la Societe d? Anthropologic, 1881, p. 703). 



