with the Tamils the skull-roof culminates with the frontal 

 division, with the Sinhalese, and still more with the Yeddas, 

 the occipital is strongly developed. The basilar view shows 

 plainly the extraordinary shortness of the occipital region 

 in the Tamil skulls, After this we must say that the skull of the 

 Tamils, so far as can he ascertained from those under consideration, 

 exhibits no relationship either with the Veddas or ivith the Sinhalese, 



In size the Tamil face occupies a middle position between 

 the Sinhalese and the Yedda face. The Sinhalese is the largest; 

 then the Tamil ; and the Yedda is the smallest. The propor- 

 tions of the Tamil face may briefly be stated in the following for- 

 mula : mesokonchy, mesorrldny , proynathy, and brachystaphy* 

 This positively distinguishes the Tamil face from the Sinhalese, 

 and brines it nearer to the Yedda face. But the almost com- 

 plete identity of the nasal indices (Tamils 51, Yeddds 50-52) 

 does not prevent the greatest variety in the formation of the 

 nasal bridge. Owing to the greater narrowness of the nasal 

 bone as well as the form of the bridge we would not be at all 

 justified in representing the fiat, and, towards the lower part, 

 broad nose of the Yeddas as a Tamil inheritance. The form of 

 the orbits is different in all the three races ; and to this dis- 

 similarity is to be added the very different formation of the 

 nasC-frontal region, in which, however, the proportions in the 

 Sinhalese more nearly resemble those of the Yedda. The form 

 of the aperture of the nose is with the Tamil more like that of 

 the Sinhalese than that of the Yedda ; both being platyrrhine, 

 and that of the Yedda mesorrhine ; but at its epiphysis never- 

 theless the Yedda nose is flatter and more depressed ; the 

 Sinhalese and Tamil protuberant — the Tamil in fact more 

 than the Sinhalese. The chief distinctive feature of the Yedda 

 palate is that the " tooth-curve " has very nearly the outline of a 

 horse shoe. Wholly different from the Tamils, and also some- 

 what different from the Yeddas, is the " tooth-curve " of the 

 Sinhalese. With them the palatal plate is unusually large and 

 at the same time of considerable breadth, so that it is very large, 

 but the sides are more parallel, and the region of the incisors 

 forms a broader, flatter curve jutting out in front. The Os 



' [i.e., Medium orbital index, — medium nasal index, — projecting 

 jttw,— and short palate. — T. Z?.] 



