1826. J" Phiiosophical J^ansactions for XS25, Part II. 217 



*' The dimensions of the upper extremities and of the foot, 



are these : 



Feet. In. 



Length of the arm 1 I'-i^.T^ ^ 



of the fore arm 9vV J °* 



•» of the hand from the tip of the middle 



finger, to the articulation at the wrist .... 7 



Length of the foot 7--j%. 



" Now we find, on comparing the principal of these dimen- 

 sions with those of the Venus de Medicis, as given by Winkel- 

 man. Camper, and others, that the difference between them is 

 so slight, as not to deserve notice. Our mummy is that of a 

 person rather taller. The celebrated Medicean statue, which 

 stands as the representative of a perfect beauty, is five feet in 

 height, like our mummy, and the relative admeasurements of the 

 'arm, fore-arm, and hand in each, are precisely similar. 



"But in a female skeleton, it is the pelvis that presents the 

 most striking difference in different races. Nothing, for instance, 

 can be further removed from the symmetrical form, and from the 

 dimensions of the pelvis in the Caucasian or European race, 

 than the same part in the Negro or Ethiopian race. Of this 

 fact, I shall be able to convince such of the Fellows of this 

 Society, as are not conversant in these matters, by exhibiting 

 the most perfect pelvis of a well grown Negro girl, which I pre- 

 pared some years ago, in contrast with that of our mummy, 

 which I likewise carefully dissected. When subjected to this 

 comparative test, the pelvis of our female inummy will be found 

 to come nearer to the beau it/ea/ of the Caucasian structure, than 

 does that of women of Europe in general, and to equal in depth, 

 amplitude, and rotundity of outhnes, the Circassian form. 



" In illustration of this remark, 1 made the following mea- 

 surements. 



In. 



Greatest distance or width of the pelvis from the highest 

 point of the ridge of the ihum on one side, to that of 

 the other side 11 



Distance between the two anterio-superior spinous pro- 

 cesses of the ilia 10 



Distance between the tuberosities of the ischium 3*-,^ 



Elevation of the branches of the ischium to join the 

 descending branches of the pubis, and form the sub- 

 pubian arch 3 



Greatest elevation of the os innominatum or haunch bone, 

 from the tubera of the ischium to the highest point of 

 the crest of the ilia 8 



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