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England. Of these, eleven were in possession of Mr. Barnard 

 Davis, who has given notices of them in his " Thesaurus 

 Craniorum": London, 1867, p. 130. Among them are four, 

 likewise from Batticaloa, two from Badulla, and two from 

 Uva. Some are damaged, and must therefore be set aside 

 in our examination. Nine other Vedda skulls are found in 

 the great anthropological collection in the Hunter Museum ; 

 their measures have lately been published by Mr. W. H, 

 Flower in his " Catalogue of the Specimens Illustrating the 

 Osteology and Dentition of Vertebrated Animals contained 

 in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England": 

 London, 1879, Part I., p. 111. Among them are also those 

 which Mr. George Busle (Proc.Linn. Soc, 1862, vol. 6, p. 166) 

 has earlier described. Of two of these it is stated that they are 

 from Nilgala. The two last and the one from Bintenna 

 (Badulla) are furnished by Mr. Bailey. A picture of one of 

 the men's skulls from Bintenna (No, 675) is given in the 

 work of the Messieurs de Quatrefages and Hamy, "Crania 

 Ethnica," Paris, 1876-77. Of two others (Nos. 681 and 682), 

 it is especially said that they may be considered authentic 

 specimens. 



In all, we have then, twenty-three skulls for comparison. 

 A mong them there is, beside the above-mentioned deformed 

 skull (No. 4) from the Museum at Colombo, another from the 

 Hunter Museum (No. 676), one from the Bailey collection, 

 brought from Bintenna, of which it is expressly asserted that 

 " it has been unsymmetrically distorted by occipital pressure." 

 These two must, therefore, be excluded from certain exami- 

 nations. The rest of the anomalies, however important they 

 may be, can in the main be passed over. I will only briefly 

 call attention to the fact that the skull I have described, 

 No. 1 from the Colombo Museum, shows some temporary 

 aberrations, especially interpolations of bone, and also that 

 the skull represented by the Messieurs de Quatrefages and 

 Hamy, No. 675, out of the London Museum, shows distinct 

 stenokraphy. 



