ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY, 

 CEYLON BRANCH. 



PROFESSOR VIRCHOW'S ETHNOLOGICAL STUDIES 

 ON THE SINHALESE RACE. 



Read before the Anthropological Society of Berlin, January 17, 1885. 



Translated by W. R. Kynsey (Fellow King 

 and Queen's Coll. of Physicians) and J. D. Macdonald, m.d. 



(Bead February 13, 1886.) 



At the time when I wrote my treatise concerning the 

 Veddas of Ceylon, and their relations to the neighbouring 

 races, it was not possible for me to obtain a single satisfactory 

 scientific description of the principal race of the Island, viz., 

 the Sinhalese. What I was able to ascertain concerning 

 them is stated on page 60 and the following pages.* 



My disappointment was great at not seeing the large 

 caravan which Herr Hagenbeck brought to Europe in 1883. 



At the sitting of the Paris Anthropological Society, of 

 October 18, 1883 (Bulletins, page 713), M. Manouvrier made an 

 official report concerning that company, the meagreness of 

 which is even acknowledged by the author himself, who ex- 

 plains it as due to want of courtesy on the part of the leader. 



Last year another caravan visited the country, and I con- 

 sider myself fortunate in finding it still here on my return 



* Of his former treatise on the Veddas. 



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