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A First Study of the Burmese Slull 
DeutscMands (Emil Schmidt's Collection 6, Breslau 1*, Munich. 5*, Darmstadt 8*, 
Frankfurt 3*, Berlin 6*, Gottingen 6*, Bonn 3*), and 18 from Barnard Davis' 
Catalogue. 
The skulls of the Malayan series have been assembled from the various islands of 
the Malay Archipelago, which we are aware contain a considerablelndonesian element. 
We may, however, surely dismiss the possibility that so experienced a craniologist 
and collector as Dr Emil Schmidt (to whom we owe all the S data), when out to 
collect Malayans, would accept Indonesians and classify them under the title 
"Malay." There can be equally little doubt, however, that by "Malay" is not 
meant the pure Malay race, but any of the kindred races scattered upon those 
islands which are now more usually grouped under the broader term Malayan. 
That we are not dealing here with a pure race is revealed by the standard deviation 
of the cephalic index BjL. For the Malayan series it is 5-13 ± -28; and this may be 
compared with the correspondmg standard deviations for other races quoted by 
Fawcettf. Here we see that the fairly homogeneous collections of Naqadas, Negroes, 
Panjabi Low Castes, Ainos, and Row Grave Germans show a standard deviation of 
the cephalic index below 3-0 for male skulls; for the <J Bavarians, Whitechapel 
English and Egyptian Mummies it lies between 3-0 and 4-0 and only in the collection 
of o Modern Egyptians where it rises as high as 5-42 is our Malayan standard 
deviation exceeded. 
There is therefore doubtless some heterogeneity in the Malayan material, but 
pending further study of the crania of the individual islands, we are compelled to use 
the means obtained from it, as a working approximation to a Malayan cranial type. 
Chinese. No single series of Chinese skulls in the various German museums was 
long enough alone to supply anything like the number desirable, so it was again 
necessary to collect data scattered throughout the publication, and we have before us 
from German sources measurements taken in 69 male Chinese skulls (Schmidt's 19, 
Strassburg 2, Breslau 2, Heidelberg 2, Munich 13, Gottingen 11, Bonn 1, Frank- 
furt 7, Darmstadt 12), but about half of these, having been measured before 1882, 
and therefore not in accordance with the Concordat, yielded comparatively few 
measurements of which use could be made. 
In addition there are sixteen skulls from Flower's catalogue of the collection 
at the Royal College of Surgeons, and seventeen from Barnard Davis' collection. 
Total for Chinese <S skulls 102, the numbers on which the various means are based 
ranging from 102 downwards. 
Drawing on all these sources I only managed however to collect measurements 
of 11 ? Chinese skulls all told (3 from Flower, 1 from Schmidt, Munich 1, Bonn 1, 
Barnard Davis 5). The ? Chinese skull is evidently a rarity, and any further speci- 
mens that can be secured will form a very valuable addition to the existing 
collections of craniaj. 
* Parts XII, X, IX, vi, v (i), n, i, respectively. f Biometrika, Vol. I. p. 440. 
\ The Biometric Laboratory would be very grateful indeed for the gift or loan of Chinese crania 
with locus of origin. Recent attempts to procure such directly have failed owing to the strong Chinese 
religious prejudices backed by legal ordinances. 
