The question of the aboriginal inhabitants of India is one of even greater importance and presents greater difficulties. If it can be shown that this aboriginal population was Negrito, and if the relations which researches, especially in philology, have indicated between the peoples of India and those of Australia can be proved, a range of possibilities of startling importance, affecting the race question of Oceania in general and the origin and distribution of the Negritos in particular, will be opened up. In regard to the Indian question there is much diversity of opinion. De Quatrefages and Hamy, as usual, regard the Negritos as established in India, but Topinard and Virchow are opposed to this belief. Meyer holds that "this part of the Negrito question is in no way ripe for decision, and how much less the question as to a possible relationship of this hypothetical primitive population with the Negroes of Africa." (Distribution of Negritos, 1899, p. 70.) In anthropology a statement may be regarded as proved for the time being so long as no opposition to it exists. With the exception of the Philippine and the Andaman Islands and the Malay Peninsula, as we have seen, the presence of traces of Negritos is an open question. The evidence at hand is incomplete and insufficient, and we must therefore be content to let future investigators work out these unsolved problems. [3] English edition of Stanley, 1874, p. 106. [4] Distribution of Negritos, 1899, p. 6, footnote. [5] Zuniga, Estadismo de las Islas Filipinas. Reprint by Retana, vol. I, p. 422. [6] By this is meant Fr. San Antonio's Chronicas de la Apostolica, Provincia de San Gregorio, etc., 1738-1744. [7] Relacion de las Islas Filipinas, 1604; 2d ed., 1890, p. 38. [8] Meyer, Distribution of Negritos, 1899, p. 4. [9] See sketch map, Pl. I. [10] Estadismo de las Islas Filipinas. Ed. Retana, 1893, I, p. 421. [11] Ca-ing-in is a Malayan word for cultivated clearing. [12] The province has recently been divided by act of the Philippine Commission, the northern part above Santa Cruz being joined to Pangasinan. [13] Francisco Canamaque, Boletin de la Sociedad Geografica de Madrid, vol IX, 1880. [14] Diccionario Geografico, etc., de las Islas Filipinas, vol. II, 1850. [15] Canamaque. [16] Zuniga, Estadismo de las Islas Filipinas, 1803.