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5570. The skeleton of an Englishman, with twenty-five true vertebrae. 



The supplemental vertebra has the characters of a thirteenth dorsal on the right side and 

 of a first lumbar on the left side. This arises from the distinct ossification of the fibrous basis 

 of the pleurapophysis, on the right side, producing a false rib of nearly two inches in length, 

 which articulates by a head and a tubercle with that side of the vertebra. Upon the opposite 

 side the diapophvsis is simply elongated by exogenous ossification extending from it into the 

 same fibrous basis of the rib-element. The metapophysial and anapophysial tubercles mani- 

 fest themselves above the diapophyses of the eleven dorsal ^ertebree, become longer, and 

 separate from each other on the twelfth, and become of equal distinctness on the supplemental 

 vertebra last described. The anapophysis is likewise well developed on the right side of the 

 succeeding vertebrae : it subsides to a ridge on the next lumbar and is most developed on the 

 penultimate one. The neural arches of the first three sacrals are complete : a spine is deve- 

 loped from the first and second arches. The bifurcate spine of the fifth cervical is of unusual 

 length. The body of the fourth cervical has been affected with ulceration. The forehead is 

 narrow, low and sloping in this skeleton, which, as in the case of the male Frenchman, 

 No. 5571, was of a convict. 



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5571. The skeleton of a Frenchman. 



The European characteristics are well marked in the facial bones, but the forehead is 

 unusually low and retreating. The metapophyses become distinct on the last dorsal and are 

 much developed on the first lumbar, where also the anapophyses are present : the right di- 

 apophysis of this vertebra is thick and short; on the left side it is lengthened by the addition 

 of a connate pleurapophysis. 



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5572. The skeleton of a French woman. 



The sexual characters are well displayed in the more delicate forms and proportions of the 

 bones, the narrower thorax, the more expanded pelvis, and more widely separated hip joints : 

 the femur has a proportionally longer neck, set on at a less open angle with the shaft, than 

 in the male. The metapophyses of the first lumbar are relatively less developed than in the 

 male : the last ribs are relatively short. 



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The following, to No. 5707 inclusive, are parts of the same skeleton of a Frenchman : 



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5573. The atlas. 



It is larger, particularly in the transverse diameter, than that of the Esquimaux or the 

 Australian. As compared with the latter, the zygapophyses and arterial foramina are pro- 

 portionally larger. The diapophyses are broader and less obliquely twisted. 



