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to comment on them. It may suffice therefore to limit myself to a comparison of 

 those previously recorded with this additional series. The crania in the present set 

 were, as in those previously described, elongated, not keeled in the sagittal region, 

 dolichocephalic, the height greater than the breadth. The face was low in relation to 

 its height ; the nose was usually platyrhine or mesorhine ; the upper jaw was usually 

 orthognathous ; the orbital aperture trended to a high vertical diameter ; the pala to- 

 alveolar arch was moderately wide. The mean cranial capacity in this series, 1316 c.c, 

 was higher than in the men measured in Part II., 1201 c.c, and also higher than the 

 mean, 1250, given in the memoir of the Messrs Sarasin. 



As in the present series I have examined an almost complete skeleton, and as this 

 opportunity seldom occurs, it will be of interest to compare it with specimens recorded 

 in 1889 by Professor Arthur Thomson,* and with the more numerous examples 

 subsequently described by the Messrs Sarasin in their monumental work on Ceylon. 1 



The bones were well formed, slender, and not strongly marked with ridges and 

 processes for muscles. The height and breadth of the pelvis closely corresponded in 

 Thomson's and my specimens, and the breadth-height index, as well as in the males 

 described by the Sarasins, ranged from 80*9 to 81*8. The index of the pelvic brim 

 showed considerable variation. In eight men measured by the Sarasins the mean 

 index was 89'9, in my specimen 94 "6, and in these the transverse diameter exceeded 

 the conjugate ; but in Thomson's specimen the conjugate was 3 mm. more than the 

 transverse, and the index, 103, was dolichopellic. 



In all the male skeletons it was seen that the collective depth posteriorly of the 

 bodies of the lumbar vertebrae exceeded somewhat the depth anteriorly, and the lumbar 

 curve, so far as it was occasioned by the bones, was concave anteriorly or koilorachic. 

 In these skeletons the length of the forearm in relation to the upper arm was inter- 

 mediate between Europeans and Negritos, and falls into the group which I have named 

 mesatikerkic. The tibia was also long in relation to the femur, and the tibio-femoral 

 index was dolichoknemic. In my specimen the intermembral index, 74, was much 

 higher than in Thomson's, 66*1, and in the Sarasins' specimens, 68 '9, and must be 

 regarded therefore as exceptional. In my skeleton and in those measured by the 

 Sarasins the index of the tibial shaft was strongly platyknemic, but the mean of six tibiae 

 measured by Thomson gave an index 74'5, which showed that there was only slight 

 lateral compression of the shaft. From the measurements of the Messrs Sarasin the 

 mean stature of the Veddah men was 5 feet 2 inches, of the women 4 feet 10 inches. 



TIBETANS. Table V. 



In February 1905 I had the pleasure to receive from a former pupil, Major C. N. C. 

 Wimberley, I. M.S., two crania which he had collected when in Tibet as a member of 

 the medical staff attached to the expedition to Lhasa under the command of Sir Frank 



* Jour, of Anthr. Inst., Nov. 1889. t Ergebnisse naturwissenschaftliche Forschungen auf Ceylon ; Wiesbaden, 1893. 



