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which prevails in brachycephalic people generally, and although not invariably found 

 points to a brachycephalic type. 



In Part I. of these memoirs on Indian Craniology, in which I described the skulls of 

 a number of persons who had died in the prison at Insein, Burma, four, said to be Shaiis, 

 are included in its Table VI. Of these, two were distinctly brachycephalic in propor- 

 tions and form, with cephalic indices 80 "6 and 80 respectively; one was in the higher 

 term of the mesaticephalic group, 78 7, whilst only one, said to be from the South 

 Shan States, was dolichocephalic, 74'0. 



The evidence afforded by both series of skulls leads to the conclusion that the Shan 

 States are inhabited, in some districts at least, by a brachycephalic people. The 

 collection is too small to enable one to come to a more definite conclusion, and it is 

 probable that a dolichocephalic race or races constitute a proportion of the population, 

 especially in the hilly tracts. It is to be kept in mind that the Shan States are in 

 close proximity to Western China and to Siam, in which brachycephalism prevails, 

 and that they have affinities to these Mongolian people. I may refer on this point 

 to the late Dr John Anderson's account of his journey in the Shan States,* in which 

 he described the Shans living in the valley as having the sallow tint of the Chinese, 

 dark brown eyes, black hair, broad flat faces, prominent cheek-bones, and with some 

 obliquity of the outer angle of the eyelids as in the Chinese. 



Tibetans. Table VIII. 



In Part III. (1906) of my memoirs on Indian Craniology I described the skulls of 

 two natives of Tibet t presented to me by Major C. N, C. Wimberley, I.M.S. In a 

 subsequent;}: memoir (1907) I described the skulls of two other Tibetans. 



I have now cordially to acknowledge the receipt in 1908 of two additional skulls, 

 which, like those described in 1907, were presented to me for the Anatomical Museum 

 by Lieutenant F. M. Bailey, who obtained them at Gyantse, Tibet, where he acted as 

 British Agent. Of these skulls. No. 6 was apparently a male, said to be a Khamba, the 

 other, smaller in dimensions, obviously a female, had no special mark on it. The lower jaw- 

 was absent in each case. In the male the wisdoms had not erupted and the basi-cranial 

 joint was not ossified ; in the female the wisdoms had erupted and the basi-cranial joint 

 was almost closed. For convenience of reference the measurements of all the Tibetan 

 skulls are included in Table VIII. 



Norma verticalis (Nos. 6 and 7). — The cranial outline was ovoid ; in the male the 

 sagittal line was not raised ; in the female it was somewhat elevated, though not ridged, 

 and the slope from the suture to the parietal eminence was steeper in the female than 

 in the male. The parieto-occipital slope was moderate, the occipital squama bulged 

 somewhat more in the male than in the female. The male was cryptozygous, but in the 



* Report on the Expedition to Western Yunan via Bhamo, Calcutta, 1871. 

 t Trayis. Roy. Soc. Ediri., vol. xlv., part ii., p. 288, 1906. 

 X Idem, vol. xlv., part iii., p. 812, 1907. 



