No. 33, 1880.] THE VEDDAS OP CEYLON. 



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Since in both my skulls the lower jaw is wanting, I cannot 

 arrange a corresponding calculation. Added to this, one of 

 them is so greatly changed on the edge of the jaw by age, 

 that it could not even be used for the middle face index. I 

 can therefore simply institute a comparison between one 

 Vedda skull (No. 1) and one Sinhalese. In the following I 

 give an index (a) calculated from the proportion of the height 

 of the middle face (root of the nose to the alveolar edge) to 

 the zygomatic diameter, the latter = 100 ; and a second (b) 

 calculated from the same height, and from the molar breadth 

 (lower end of the sutura zygomatico maxillares), the last == 

 100 :— 



(a) (&) 

 Vedda ... 50-0 ... 70-1 



Sinhalese ... 52-6 ... 60'5 



Here the result is, as before, less breadth of the whole face 

 with the Sinhalese, but greater width of front face. The 

 alveolar index of the Sinhalese No. 1 shows a comparatively 

 high figure, viz., 99, but the facial angle (external meatus, 

 nasal spine, root of the nose) only 75, whilst in the case of 

 the Veddas amounting to 82. 



With regard to the palate, I have unfortunately neglected to 

 take the measure of it in the Vedda skull. I have, however, 

 stated that it was broad, and the alveolar ridge in the shape of 

 a horse-shoe. Contrasted with this, the Sinhalese palate 

 exhibits considerable difference. According to Dusseau's 

 figures, I reckon a palatal index of 73*7 ; according to mine, for 

 skull No. 1, of 75*4. Result, a leptostaphyline measure. If 

 we compare the two skulls upon Tables I. and II., below 

 fig. 5, the difference is obvious. Whether it is to be regarded 

 as universal I am not able to say. 



On the whole, the osteological investigation of the Sinhalese 

 face, therefore, confirms what has already become conspicuous 

 from the physiognomical observations of individual reporters ; 

 the skeleton face of the Sinhalese differs far more f rom that 

 of the Veddas than the skull of the former from that of the 

 latter. It is distinguished, as a whole, in that it is much 



