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The interorbital distance was small, a fact also noted by 

 the French Commission. The distance in the case of the 

 women was 31 mm., in the men from 34 to 35 mm., whilst in 

 the Indians it amounted to between 37 and 39 mm. The 

 length from canthus to canthus measured in the women 

 30 mm., in the Appu group of men 55 to 57 mm., in the 

 Kandyans 62 to 64 mm. 



Of the Indians, Murugappa measured 30 mm., Pichchai 

 only 55 mm. Both showed a somewhat elongated, almost 

 narrow, still straight, palpebral opening. Concerning 

 refraction, sharpness of vision, and colour blindness, Herr 

 Kotelmann has given details. 



I now come to the shape of the head. From the tables 

 attached it will be seen that of the seven Sinhalese, there 

 were : — 



Two brachycephalic, four mesocephalic, one dolichoce- 

 phalic. 



Brachycephalic were Lusa Nona (82*7) and her brother 

 Andre Appu (83*5) ; dolichocephalic, on the contrary, her 

 husband Girigoris (72*3). Next to him stand among the 

 mesocephalic the sister Inga Nona (75*8) ; whilst the little 

 son Jimmy (79*6) must be classified among the brachycepha- 

 lic. The average cephalic index for the whole family may 

 be set down at 78*7, the same mesocephalic number which 

 was obtained from all the seven measurements. The Paris 

 Commission (Dep. 719) measured seven men, five women, and 

 two children. Among these fourteen persons none were doli- 

 chocephalic, eight were brachycephalic, six were meso- 

 cephalic. As also here among the mesocephalic a high index 

 number appeared, it follows that the average is brachy- 

 cephalic, viz., 81*9. Both averages, that of Berlin and that of 

 Paris, approximate each other, but it must be distinctly 

 remembered that they were obtained from different persons. 



These results stand in strong contrast to those obtained 

 from any examination of Sinhalese skulls hitherto made. 

 I have described these in my treatise (page 73 and the follow- 



