ANTHROPOMETRY 



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Manouvrier's Tables Showing the Correspondence of Bone Lengths among 

 Themselves and with Stature — Continued 



ADDENDA 



MEASUREMENTS OF TEETH 



To express the proportionate size of the crowns of the premolars 

 and molars to that of the skull in different races, Flower compared 

 the distance from the front of the first premolar to the back of the 

 last molar in situ, with the distance from the front of the foramen 

 magnmn to the naso-frontal suture (basi-nasal length), in the form of 

 a "dental inde.x." — 



Thus: 



Length of teeth x 100 

 Basi-nasal length 



= Dental index, 



and by this means he has divided the various races into microdont 

 (index 42 to 43, Europeans, Egyptians, etc.), mesodont (index 43 to 

 44, Chinese, American Indians, Negroes, etc.), and macrodont (index 

 44 and upwards, Australians, Melanesians, etc.)-^ 



'Flower (W. H.) — On the size of the teeth as a character of race. J. Anthrop. 

 Inst. 1885, xiv, 183-187. See also Cunningham (D. J.) — Textbook of Anatomy, 3d 

 ed., 1909, 1029. 



