correspondence exists between the proportions of the skulls of the 

 Sinhalese and the Veddas, while the absolute figures shew those of 

 the Sinhalese to exceed the Veddas, as a rule, in height. 



In fact, according to the testimony of travellers, the 

 difference of race is more conspicuous in the faoe than in the 

 skull. It is chiefly to the form of the nose, particularly the 

 flatness of its ridge, and the breadth of the nostrils, but likewise 

 to the form of the lips and jaws, which are throughout described 

 as prognathous [or projecting], that the various writers call 

 attention as being characteristic features of the Vedda face. 

 Contrasted with the Sinhalese nose— which the old Chinese 

 reporters call a bird's beak, and in the description of a Kandy 

 beauty is compared to a hawk's bill,— and also contrasted with 

 the delicate lips and orthognathous [or straight] jaw, which we 

 perceive in Davy's drawings, there are certainly very striking 

 differences. Unfortunately no other observer has recorded 

 orbital measurements for the Sinhalese, and there is a difference 

 in the system of the published measurements which prevents 

 our turning the skulls in England to much account in this direc- 

 tion ; but, oil the whole, osteological investigation has, in regard 

 to the main facts, confirmed the observations made among the 

 living. The skeleton face of the Sinhalese differs fir more 

 from that of the Veddas than their respective skulls do. The 

 index for the face shews a very considerable contrast to that of 

 the Veddas, averaging for the latter only 83, against 39 for the 

 former, calculated on 5 female and 1 male skulls, one of wdiich 

 is that of a weak-minded person. ]n general the skeleton face 

 of the Sinhalese is much narrower and longer than that of the 

 Veddas. Corresponding with this the palate with the Sinhalese 

 is more long and narrow ; with the Veddas rather short and 

 broad, with a prognathous jaw. In the last particular, how T ever, 

 the contrast is not so clear. With the Veddas occurs meso- 

 konchy (orbital index 84*6) and mesosorrhiny (52), with many 

 individual aberrations it is true, so that with the women 

 more platyrhine [or flat-nose] with the nien more leptorhine 

 [or narrow-nose] forms occur. On this point the Sinhalese 

 materiel is very unsatisfactory and quite inadequate, 



