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and very few had a strongly prognathic jaw. The mean nasal index 
was mesorhine, the orbital index was mesoseme, and the palato- 
alveolar index brachyuranic. In their cranial capacity one was 
only 1160 c.cm., and three were exceptionally high, but as a rule 
they ranged from 1240 to 1250 c.cm. 
Two of the crania, from an old cemetery in Upper Burma, were 
distinctly dolichocephalic ; one marked Karen was brachycephalic, 
and the height was less that the breadth. Two skulls were said 
to be those of Shans, one was brachycephalic, cephalic index 80 ‘6 ; 
the other was mesaticephalic, cephalic index 78*7. They were 
neither prognathic nor platyrhine. 
The Burmese are probably the descendants of a Himalayo-Tibetan 
race, which migrated in a south-easterly direction until they reached 
Burma. They are of moderate stature; the mean height of a num- 
ber of men measured in the jail at Insein was 5 ft. 2f in. The face 
is broad and flattish, the nostrils spread out laterally, the eyes are 
wide asunder and inclined to be oblique and almond-shaped. The 
hair is black and straight, abundant on the head, scanty on the face. 
The skin is a light olive brown in the upper classes, but darker in 
those who are more exposed to the sun. The features show, there- 
fore, the Mongolian type. The Burmese skulls were compared 
with Chinese and Siamese crania. The paper concluded with some 
remarks on the intermixture of races. 
