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was high, and the nasio-malar index, 114, gave a projecting pro-opic character to the 

 profile. Although the locality in which they were found and the brachycephalic form 

 of the cranium would lead one to think that they might have had racial affinities with 

 the Mongolians, the facial characters showed a definite departure from the Mongolian 

 type. In the female, again, the elongated skull, its dolichocephalic proportions, low 

 nasio-malar index, 1067, and platyopic face, presented differences from the males much 

 more than could be regarded as sexual, and seem to justify the conclusion that it was 

 of another race. 



As regards the Baluchis, or Bilochs, Mr Risley's table # of measurements of sixty 

 men show that in thirty-two the cephalic index exceeded 80, in one of which the index 

 reached 95'4 ; in twenty-two the index ranged from 75 "5 to 79'4, ten of which were 

 above 77 '5, whilst six were below 75. The prevailing type was brachycephalic or 

 approximated thereto. The nasal index was leptorhine. The nasio-malar index was 

 high, and averaged 117'9. 



Measurements taken by Mr John Gray of the heads of the Indian soldiers t who were 

 in London at the time of the Coronation, may perhaps assist in throwing further light 

 on the affinities of these crania from Seistan. Mr Gray found that the Afridis had a 

 mean cephalic index 74*2, the Afghans 76*3, the Muhammadan Punjabis 72*7, the Sikhs 

 73"1, all of whom therefore had dolichocephalic heads. The dolichocephalic skull C 

 may possibly be that of an Afghan or Afridi woman. 



On the other hand the Baluchi soldiers, thirteen in number, measured by Mr Gray, 

 had the mean cephalic index 83 '4. When the necessary reduction is made for the 

 thickness of the soft parts, this index closely approximates to the mean of the skulls A 

 and B in this description, and expresses the brachycephalic character, though much 

 less pronounced than in the Mongolian inhabitants of Central Asia. When it is kept 

 in mind that the Baluchis, owing to the uncertain water supply, the character of the 

 climate, and the conformation of their country, are a nomadic people, it is not unlikely 

 that they may frequently cross the frontier into Seistan, and their skulls consequently 

 be occasionally found in that province. 



Sagittal Sections — Tables VI., VII. 



In previous memoirs on the skull published in the Challenger Reports and in the 

 Transactions of this Society,! I have reproduced tracings of sagittal sections which 

 showed the contour of crania near the mesial plane. Lines radiating from the basion 

 were drawn to definite anatomical points on the surface of the skull, also other lines 

 which at their intersections enabled angles to be measured. In this memoir similar 



* Tribes and Castes of Bengal, Anthropometric Data, vol. ii., Table I., p. 815. 

 t Man, iii. p. 69, 1903. 



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