[21] Journ. Anthrop. Soc., Bombay, 1889, vol. i. p. 535. [↑]
[22] Mysore Census Report, 1901, Pt. i. p. 521. [↑]
[23] Histoire générale des Races Humaines, Paris, 1889, Introduction, p. 469. [↑]
[24] Ethnology, Cambridge, 1896, p. 418. [↑]
[25] The Races of Man, London, 1900, p. 412. [↑]
[26] In a paper which I have only seen since the above was written (C. R. de la Soc. de Biol., 1905, t. lix, p. 123) M. Louis Lapicque has called attention to the resemblance between Todas and Nairs. He regards the Todas as pure or almost pure examples of one of the two races of which he believes the Dravidian population of India to be composed, the Nairs being more mixed with the negroid element, which forms the other component of the population according to M. Lapicque. [↑]
[27] It must also be borne in mind that the figures of the Nambutiris and those of some of the Todas are based on the measurement of twenty-five individuals only in each case. [↑]
[28] Some of these measurements are based on the examination of eighty-two men, others are derived from twenty-five men only. [↑]
[29] The relations existing between Nair women and Nambutiri men must have brought about an approximation of the two Malabar castes in physical characters, even if they were originally of different ethnical origin. [↑]
[30] It is worth noting that they practise male descent, while the Nairs follow the Marumakkattayam system of inheritance. [↑]