812 SIR WILLIAM TURNER, THE CRANIOLOGY OF THE NATIVES OF BORNEO, 



prove that community of language implies common descent and race. Examples are 

 not unknown elsewhere of a race having lost its original tongue and speaking a lano-uao-e 

 acquired from another race with which it has been brought into intimate contact 

 through conquest, immigration, or otherwise. 



Tibetans. Table III. Plate V. 



In Part iii. of my series of Memoirs on the Craniology of the People of the Empire 

 of India I described and figured the skulls of two natives of Tibet, which had been 

 presented in 1905 by Major C. N. C. Wimberley, I.M.S. One of these, from Lhassh 

 was an example of the brachycephalic type ; the other, a warrior from the Kliam 

 province in Eastern Tibet, on the other hand, was dolichocephalic in form and pro- 

 portions. The skulls were representative of the two distinct types of head which exist 

 in the people of Tibet. These skulls are marked A and B in the list of Tibetan 

 crania in the University Museum. In connection with these specimens, I discussed the 

 physical characters and affinities of the Tibetans. 



I have the pleasure of acknowledging the receipt, in October 1906, of two skulls and 

 a skull bowl or cap collected at Gyantse, Tibet. They were presented by Lieutenant 

 F. M. Bailey, the British Agent at the town of Gyantse, and they had been 

 prepared for him by Captain Rt. Steen, I. M.S., the Agency Surgeon. The skull bowl 

 was said to be a part of a Khamba skull, but no special information is given regarding 

 the other specimens. 



I have carefully examined the two skulls, which I shall designate C and D. They 

 were both males and had reached adult life, though, from the condition of the sutures 

 and teeth, C was obviously much older than D. The lower jaws were absent. 



Skull C. Norma verticalis. — The cranial outline was an elongated ovoid, dolicho- 

 cephalic, cephalic index 72*6 ; there was no sagittal ridge, and though the slope from 

 the sagittal suture to the parietal eminences was well marked, the vertex could scarcely 

 be called roof-shaped ; the side walls were almost vertical, the parieto-occipital slope was 

 moderate, and the occipital squama projected behind the inion. The skull was 

 phsenozygous. 



Norma lateralis. — The forehead slightly receded ; the glabella and supraorbital 

 ridges were moderate, and the latter were not fused with the outer upper border of the 

 orbit, above which, as in the Kliam skull, the frontal was flattened as far as the temporal 

 ridge.* The nasion was not depressed. The bridge of the nose had a low mesial keel 

 and the profile outline showed a shallow concavity. The nasal bones at the mid suture 

 were 24 mm. long. The parietal longitudinal arc was the longest, the occipital arc the 

 shortest. The cranium rested behind on the cerebellar fossae. 



* Professor Cunningham, in the study of the evolution of the region of the eyebrow, has pointed out the 

 morphological importance of distinguishing the supra-orbital ridge and the upper border of the orbit, in their 

 bearing on the significance of the great ridges which are found in such a skull as that from the Neanderthal. 



