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the customary width of the angle in the male than was the angle, 76°, of the Challenger 

 specimen. The shape of the brim of the pelvis was not uniform ; in the Perak specimen 

 the transverse diameter was much in excess of the conjugate, the form of the inlet was 

 ovoid transversely, and the index was platypellic ; whilst in the Challenger example the 

 conjugate exceeded the transverse diameter, the brim was ovoid antero- posteriorly, and 

 the index was dolichopellic. On the other hand, the intertuberal diameter of the pelvic 

 outlet and the depth of the true pelvis were much less in the Perak than in the 

 Challenger examples. The length of the sacrum measured in a straight line and the breadth 

 of the bone at the base were almost alike in the two specimens, and the sacral index was 

 dolichohieric. The first coccygeal vertebra was not ankylosed to the sacrum. The 

 prae-auricular sulcus was a shallow vertical groove ; the pectineal line was not raised 

 into a sharp ridge, and the pubic spine was prominent. 



The University Museum has recently received two male adult Malay skulls collected 

 by Messrs Annandale and Robinson in their expedition to the Malay Peninsula in 

 1901-02. They have been described in detail by Nelson Annandale, D.Sc., in 

 "Fasciculi Malayenses." # One, No. 21, was from Jambu, Jhering ; the other. No. 22, a 

 Kalantan Malay, was from the town of Patani. In No. 21 the cranium was "square 

 shaped " in outline, the parieto- occipital slope was abrupt and unsymmetrical, the cephalic 

 index 85*9, the skull cryptozygous. In No. 22 the cranium was broadly ovoid, the 

 parieto-occipital slope not quite so abrupt, the cephalic index 79, the skull phaenozygous. 

 The vertical index in No. 21 was 85*2, in No. 22, 7 5 '5, and in each, as is so common in 

 brachycephalic skulls, the breadth was greater than the height. In both, the nose was 

 leptorhine, the upper jaw projected forward, the palato-maxillary region dolichuranic, 

 and the complete facial index chamseprosopic. In No. 2 1 the orbit was microseme and 

 in No. 22 mesoseme.t 



The Jambu skull had an incomplete skeleton, the pelvis of which possessed male 

 characters and was a little smaller than the pelvis in my specimen described in the 

 Challenger Reports. The conjugate diameter of the brim, 98 mm., was almost equal 

 to the transverse, 100 mm., and the pelvic index, as in the Challenger specimen, was 

 dolichopellic. The length of the sacrum in a direct line was 102 mm., and along the 

 curve 110 mm. ; the maximum breadth was 98 mm. ; the sacral index, 96*1, was dolicho- 

 hieric, as in the Challenger and Perak pelves. The subpubic angle was 60°. 



* Anthropology, part ii. (a) p. 93, 1904. 



t The most recent information on the physical characters of the Malays is to be found in Nelson Annandale's 

 description in "Fasciculi Malayenses," 1904; Rudolf Martin, Die Inlandstamme der Malayischen Halbinsel, Jena, 

 1905 ; W. W. Skeat and C. O. Blagden, Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula, London, 1906. 



Glogner, "Sieben malaische Schadel," Verhandl. der Berliner Gesells. fur Anth., p. 378, 1892. 



Kohlbrugge, " Anthrop. Beobacht. aus dem Malayische Archipelago," Verh. der Berliner Gesells. fiir Anth., p. 396, 

 1900. 



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