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almost equal to each other, and to the Munda skull measured in Part iii. Table VI. of 

 my series of Indian Memoirs. The corresponding dimensions in the Murut skull are 

 distinctly smaller. The sections do not permit the breadth of the cranium to be given. 

 I have computed in the three crania the length of the three factors which make up 

 the longitudinal circumference of the skull so that they may be compared with the 

 corresponding dimensions of the skulls measured in my previous memoirs. 



Base line, ..... 



Longitudinal are, . . . . 



Longitudinal circumference, . 



Base line to longitudinal arc, . 



Base line to longitudinal circumference, 



Murut A. 



139 



369 



508 

 2-6 

 3-6 



Bajau M. 

 133 

 361 



494 



2-7 

 3-7 



Botan 1. 



138 



360 



498 

 2-6 

 36 



By the base line, a term employed by Professor Cleland, is meant the length of 

 the foramen magnum along with the ba'si-nasal diameter. It will be seen that 

 the proportion of base line to the longitudinal arc or to the longitudinal circumference 

 is almost the same in the three crania. They closely correspond with the proportions 

 which I showed to exist in the Tamils, Pariahs, Veddahs, and Kham skulls described in 

 Part iii. of my Memoirs on Indian Craniology. 



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