SECTION II 
Observations on the Skeleton 
The work of describing the skeletons in our collection has been carried 
out at the University* of Edinburgh, in the laboratory* of Professor Sir 
William Turner, to whom we are indebted not only for the loan of 
instruments and the use of a room, but also for much kindly advice and 
assistance. The measurements, terminology, and methods that we have 
adopted are those employed by him in his Challenger Reports and subsequent 
papers, especially his Contributions to the Cranio logy of the People of the Empire 
of India. 1 Except in the case of the specimens from Trang we have both taken 
the measurements, and so have checked the figures recorded. Our treatment 
is the one followed in our other papers, that of dismissing comparisons and 
discussions until the final part. 
Part I. Semang and Sakai Tribes 
( A ) Semangs 
Semdn ; Grit, Upper Perak , (Plate XVI, figs. I, 2, 3). 
The skeleton representing this tribe was procured by one of us (N. A.) from 
the jungle in the vicinity of Grit (antea, p. 20). When discovered the body 
was in a very perfect state of preservation, a fungus having grown over the 
corpse and permeated even the internal organs so as practically to have made 
a cast of them. The person was said to have died a year previously. 
Skulls* The condition of the sutures and the alveolar border of the jaws 
indicates an aged person ; the skull is remarkably small and light, and all the 
bony ridges are feebly developed. It is that of a female, as is proved by 
external evidence. 
Norma verticalis. The outline is a broad ovoid* and the curve from the 
frontal to the parietal region is regular, there being no marked lateral pro¬ 
tuberance of the central part of the latter. The cephalic index (79’S) 
is practically sub-brachycephalic ; but the downward slope of the post-parietal 
i. Tr»nu Raj. Sac., Edinburgh , vol. XXXIX, part j, no. ucvitt, 1899 ; and vol. XL, part 1, no, vi, 1901, 
