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capacity was much less than in male Europeans, it was higher than that of the Tamil 

 Sudras and the Pariahs. This group of Thug skulls possessed in common no series of 

 characters which one could associate with such maldevelopments or degenerations as 

 have, by some authors, been regarded as giving evidence of a criminal type. 



VEDDAHS. Table IV. 



Since I described in Part II. of these Contributions to Indian Craniology nine 

 Veddah crania, not previously recorded, the Anatomical Museum of the University has 

 received three skulls, one of which was accompanied by a large part of the skeleton. 

 They were adults, and apparently males. One, C in Table IV., was presented in 1902 

 by F. V. Harper, Esq., of Vogan, in recognition of the services rendered to the Museum 

 by the late Mr James Simpson, Assistant Curator ; another, D, with the skeleton, was 

 presented in August 1905 by H. 0. Hoseason, Esq., of Denodera, Ceylon ; and a third, 

 E, in November of the same year by Dr Lorenz Prins of Ceylon. 



The skulls resembled each other in general form, size, and the proportions of the 

 cranium. They were dolichocephalic. 



Norma verticalis. — The crania were neither flattened nor ridged in the sagittal 

 region ; the parietal eminences in C were strong, and the cranium had a pentagonal 

 outline ; in the other two the outline was an elongated ovoid. The vault sloped 

 distinctly downwards and outwards from the sagittal line to the parietal eminences. In 

 one the side walls were vertical below the parietal eminences, in the others they were 

 slightly bulging. The post-parietal region sloped downwards and backwards, the 

 occipital squama bulged behind the inion, and D showed slight want of symmetry behind. 

 In two skulls the parieto-squamous diameter was only 3 mm. more than the inter- 

 zygomatic, in one it was 4 mm. less. Two crania were phsenozygous, one was 

 cryptozygous. 



Norma lateralis. — The forehead was almost vertical. The glabella and supraorbital 

 ridges were feeble. The nasion was depressed in two crania, but not in the third. 

 The bridge of the nose in C was only 16 mm. long, rounded from side to side, concave 

 upwards and forwards. The anterior nares were wide in relation to the height of the 

 nose, and the nasal index was platyrhine. In D and E the nasal bridge was 21 mm. long 

 and not so rounded or so concave ; the nasal height was relatively much greater than 

 the width, and the nasal index was leptorhine. In all three crania the occipital longi- 

 tudinal arc was the shortest, and the parietal arc was considerably longer than the 

 frontal. The crania in two specimens rested behind on the cerebellar fossae ; in one on 

 the occipital condyles. 



Norma facialis. — The orbital borders in C were thick, but sharp in the others. In 

 C an infraorbital suture was visible, and the canine fossae were deep. In D and E the 

 floor of the nose was separated from the incisive region by a sharp ridge. In E the 

 incisive region was only 5 mm. in vertical diameter, and the face was consequently 



