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relatively long ; in which respects it differed from the Ulotrichi. But in other 

 characters it also showed marked differences. In its mode of implantation in the 

 scalp the follicle was not curved as in the latter, and with its included hair was 

 directed vertically in the cutis. At its emergence it did not make an acute angle 

 with the scalp. The shafts of the hairs retained their direct and independent courses 

 and did not show a disposition to aggregate into locks, in which the hairs were 

 spirally arranged, though they might become wavy and form loose curls. The 

 form of the shaft, which was a continuous smooth plane and was prolonged to the 

 tip without being twisted on itself, presented also a striking contrast to the woolly 

 and frizzly haired races. In these particulars, therefore, the hair of the Aus- 

 tralians, as also that of the Maoris and other Polynesians, did not possess those 

 developmental and morphological characters which contributed to give to the hair 

 of the Ulotrichi distinctive features (fig. 33). 



Fig. 33. — A, Australian ; M, Maori ; E, Easter Islander. 



7. The hair of the Maoris and of the natives of Easter Island, representatives of 

 the Polynesians, was relatively long, wavy and sometimes in loose curls, but not 

 twisted on itself, or arranged in spiral locks. I have had no opportunity of ex- 

 amining the implantation in the cutis, but it may reasonably be inferred that the 

 follicles and follicular hair were not curved, but were straight and vertical, or 

 approximately so, to the surface of the scalp as in other Leiotrichi. 



8. In Parts I. and II. of the series of Memoirs on the Tasmanians their crania 

 were compared with those of Australians, Papuans, Melanesians and the Negritos 

 of the Andaman Islands, and the much vexed question of the descent of the 

 Tasmanians was considered. 



!). The opinion of anthropologists generally that the aboriginal Australians, as 

 we now know them, have marked racial characters, which distinguish them from 

 the Tasmanians, is strengthened by the study of the hair described in this memoir. 



10. Differences in the characters of the crania of the Tasmanians, when compared 

 with the Papuans and Melanesians, led me to say that the Tasmanians were not in 



