686 



SCIENTIFIC RECORD FOR 1884. 



Bace or nationality. 



Antbority. 



Meters. 



Feet and 

 inches. 



Sravidians • ' 



Cingalese 



A ustrian Ronmanians 



Chinese 



Italian conscripts 1.620 



Fuegiana 



Polish jews 



Poles 



Finns (Beddoe, 5 feet 5.81 inches) 



Papuans 



Japanese 



Aymaras, Peru 



Peruvians 



(-'ochin Chinese 



Malays 



Veddas of Ceylon 



Lapps 



Andamanese 



Aetas 



Semangs 



M incopese 



Bo^esnian 



Differences between the tallest and the shortest. 

 Average statnre of man 



Shortt 



Davy 



Novara 



No vara 



An. di Statist. 1879 .... 



Novara 



Mayer and Kopeniicki. 

 Mayer and Kopemi cki. 



Novara 



Various 



Mrs. Ayrton 



Forbes. 



D'Orbigny 



Finlayson 



Raffles, Crawfurd, &c . 



Bailey 



Horch 



Man 



De Qnatrefages 



De Qnatrefages 



De Qnatrefages 



Various 



1.639 

 1.638 

 1.631 

 1.630 

 1. 626 

 1.625 

 1.623 

 1.622 

 1.617 

 1.606 

 1.604 

 1.601 

 1.600 

 1.593 

 1.583 

 1.536 

 1.500 

 1.492 

 1.482 

 1.448 

 1. 436 

 1.341 

 .421 

 1.658 



4.54 

 4.48 

 4.37 

 4.17 

 4.00 

 3.98 

 3.88 

 3.87 

 3.60 

 3.20 

 3.11 

 3.00 

 3.00 

 2.70 

 2.34 

 0.42 

 11.2 

 10.7 

 10.3 

 9.0 

 8.53 

 4.78 

 4.55 

 5.25 



One of the most important contributions to ethnic anatomy during 

 the year is that of Prof. W. H. Flower, on the size of teeth as a char- 

 acter of race. As a test of the size of the teeth, the length in a straight 

 line (as measured with a sliding compass) of the crowns of the five upper 

 molar teeth, in situ between the anterior surface of the first premolar 

 and posterior surface of the third molar, is called dental length (d). The 

 standard of length, as indicating the general size of the cranium, is the 

 craniofacial axis (B N), the distance between the nasion (nasofrontal 

 suture), and basion (middle of anterior ridge of foramen magnum). In 

 the average male skull the length is very nearly lOO"""; in the female, 

 95. Between the basio-nasal length and the dental length an index can 



be established on the formula 



^xioo 



^ -* =the dental index. The average 



indices range from 40-48; general average, 43. The following series 

 will be convenient in the study of races: 



Microdont, below 42. 



Mesodont, between 42 and 44. 



Migadont, above 44. 



Professor Fowler's table for the apes is as follows : 



Animals. 



Average, 

 both sexes. 



Male gorilla, average of 3 



Female gorilla, average of 3 



Male chimpanzee, average of 3.. 

 Female chimpanzee, average of 3 



Male orang, average of 4 



Female orang, average of 2 



Male siamang, 1 



|54. 1 

 1 47. 9 

 1 55. 2 



