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INTRODUCTION.

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shallow water deposits, like those of India. The great similarity of forms certainly suggests continuity of coast line between the two regions, and thus supports the view that the land connection between South Africa and India, already shown to have existed in both the lower and upper Gondwána periods, was continued into cretaceous times."

By Huxley[1] the races of mankind are divided into two primary divisions, the Ulotrichi with crisp or woolly hair (Negros; Negritos), and the Leiotrichi with smooth hair; and the Dravidians are included in the Australoid group of the Leiotrichi "with dark skin, hair and eyes, wavy black hair, and eminently long, prognathous skulls, with well-developed brow ridges, who are found in Australia and in the Deccan." There is, in the collection of the Royal College of Surgeons' Museum, an exceedingly interesting "Hindu" skull from Southern India, conspicuously dolichocephalic, and with highly developed superciliary ridges. Some of the recorded measurements of this skull are as follows:—

Length19·6cm.
Breadth13·2cm.
Cephalic index67·3 
Nasal height4·8cm.
Nasal breadth2·5cm.
Nasal index52·1 

Another "Hindu" skull, in the collection of the Madras Museum, with similar marked development of the superciliary ridges, has the following measurements:—

Length18·4cm.
Breadth13·8cm.
Cephalic index75 
Nasal height4·9cm.
Nasal breadth2·1cm.
Nasal index42·8

  1. Anatomy of Vertebrated Animals, 1871.
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