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MR. EDGAR THURSTON, the energetic Superintendent of the Madras Government Museum, has recently turned his attention from zoology to anthropology, and in his fourth Bulletin has published the first of what we hope will be a series of investigations on the ethnography of the Madras Presidency. Thanks to the example set by Mr. Risley, the reproach of lack of interest in the natives of India on the part of residents is now being removed, and we hope that Mr. Thurston and others will continue this extremely important line of study. The title of the memoir is “Anthropology of the Todas and Kotas of the Nilgiri Hills; and of the Brahmans, Kammalans, Pallis, and Pariahs of Madras City.” A large number of measurements are published, and the paper is illustrated with twenty-one plates, many of which are excellent.
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H., A. Contributions to the Anthropology of British India. Nature 54, 404–405 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/054404a0
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