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I must also add here that Tamil hair, which I obtained 

 through the good offices of Herr Freudenberg, the German 

 Consul, and from Dr. Kynsey, has the same characteristics. 

 In four of the examples, one shows a light yellowish-brown, 

 one a light greenish-brown, a third a dark brown, and only 

 one a pure black pigment. In the case of one Malabar I 

 found, besides black hair, also brown. 



The form of the cross section in the case of the Sinhalese 

 is either quite round or slightly compressed on one side, so 

 more or less kidney shaped. This is very distinct in Ukku 

 Banda. The hair of the women is finer, but very dissimilar 

 in thickness. On the whole, the hair of the Tamils appears 

 to me, on comparison, darker, somewhat stronger ; yet even 

 in their case the thickness, as well as the shape of the cross 

 section, varies in the same individuals in a similar manner as 

 amongst the Sinhalese. The Paris Commission determined 

 the colour of the iris partly at No. 2 of the table, and partly 

 between 5 and 3 d h, more or less dark brown. I can 

 corroborate this, only that I also noticed nut-brown eyes, 

 as did Davy before me. The iris of Liisa Nona correspon- 

 ded to No. 3 of the table, whilst her brother Andre showed 

 the dark brown colour of No. 2. Really black irises as noted 

 by Sir Davy and Cordiner I have, like Herr Kotelmann, never 

 seen. I consider that they never occur. Cordiner asserts 

 that the white of the eye appears strikingly clear, and I can 

 corroborate this in the case of children and women, yet the 

 men had invariably yellowish-brown pigment in the con- 

 junctiva, especially in the middle layer. In Andre and 

 Pufichi Banda, I noticed light brown specks. The same 

 occurred also in the Indians, of which Pichchai showed a 

 moderately dark brown ; Murugappa, on the contrary, a some- 

 what variegated iris, which externally showed a dark brown, 

 internally a light brown zone, and between these zones a 

 light yellow ring. Further, the eyes of the Sinhalese 

 appeared generally large and brilliant, somewhat elongated in 

 the case of the men, more round in the women and children. 



