250 A First Study of the Burmese Skull 
Race 
Sex 
No. of 
characters 
C.R.L. 
Probable 
error 
Chinese and Malayan 
s 
30 
315 
±-09 
30 
215 
±-09 
Chinese and Hindu 
30 
1610 
±■09 
30 
1-50* 
±-09 
Malayan and Hindu 
I 
30 
19-50 
±-09 
30 
11-85 
±-09 
* See remark on p. 245. 
These results show several interesting points : 
1. The Chinese are closely related to the Malayan. 
2. Neither race is closely related to the Hindu, but the Chinese is nearer to a 
Caucasian type than the Malayan. 
3. In so far as we can trust our rather slender data for women, the women are 
rather more alike than the men, that is, characteristic racial features are more 
pronounced in man than in woman. 
Finally, the coefficient gives an answer to the fundamental problems of our 
Burmese series. The first is: Do either A or C or the assumed hybrid B approach 
the Caucasian or Dravidian types? 
Race 
Sex 
No. of 
characters 
C.R.L. 
Probable 
error 
Burmese A and Hindu 
c? 
30 
23-94 
±•09 
Burmese A and Maravar 
? 
30 
16-36 
±■09 
30 
31-15 
±•10 
Burmese C and Hindu 
<? 
30 
6-30 
±•09 
? 
30 
1-44 
±•09 
Burmese C and Maravar 
c? 
30 
7-92 
±•10 
Burmese B and Hindu 
c? 
30 
3-79 
±•09 
9 
30 
8-56 
±•09 
Burmese B and Maravar 
3 
30 
5-59 
±•10 
This table shows that Type A, the Burman proper, is widely divergent from 
both Caucasian and Dravidian races. The Burmese Type C (possibly Karens) is 
less markedly distinguished, though quite adequately distinguished, from the 
Caucasian and Dravidian types in the male, and may come closer to the Hindu in 
the female*. But on the whole, I think, we can safely say that our Type C is not 
a Hindu or Dravidian type. ' Except in the case of the females of Burmese Type B 
and Hindu* we see that the rule remains that the male shows the more marked 
racial characters. 
From the more reliable male figures we see that Hybrid B stands closer in order 
of resemblance than either of the purer types A and C. 
Lastly, we turn, after rejecting the Caucasian and Dravidian as direct sources 
of C, to the inter-relation of the Burmese series to Malayans and Chinese. Here 
* It would not be wise to attach too much importance to exceptional results obtained from the 
Hindu female data on the ground already stated on p. 245. 
