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Alotes on Auman Aemnins 
Hiscobered by General Pitt-Aibers, B.C.9., F-H.S., wh 
Goodpates, Wiltshire. 
By J. G. Garson, M.D., V.P.A.I., Lecturer on Comparative Anatomy at 
Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, London. 
excavated by him at Woodyates, Wiltshire, and of comparing them 
with the specimens he obtained a few years ago from the Romano- 
British villages of Woodcuts and Rotherley. 
Before my visit to Rushmore each specimen had been carefully 
measured, the sex accurately determined, and the stature of the 
individual estimated by General Pitt-Rivers, who kindly placed at 
my disposal all the results of his investigations. Having satisfied 
myself that these measurements and calculations were correctly 
made and quite as reliable as any I could make, I devoted the time 
at my disposal to studying the descriptive characters and comparing 
the various series of skulls from the above-mentioned places with 
one another. The data, therefore, on which the present communi- 
cation is based, are derived from General Pitt-Rivers’ measurements 
and my personal observations of all the specimens referred to in it. 
A cursory survey of the Woodyates specimens, when placed side 
by side in line, was sufficient to show me that they differed in some 
respects from those found in the villages of Woodcuts and Rotherley, 
which I had previously examined soon after their discovery. It was 
also sufficient to show that among the individual specimens com- 
posing the series there existed a considerable range of variation in 
the size and proportions of the different parts of the skull. In other 
words, I could readily see that the remains were not those of a 
homogenous group of persons, but of individuals presenting as great 
diversities in their physical characters as would be found to exist in 
a series of persons taken from different families at the present day. 
Further examination of the specimens and of the measurements 
