270 KELIQUL& AQUITANICLE. 



a very correct idea of the antero-posterior curvature of its shaft ; though not so 

 marked as in the Cro-Magnon series, this curvature is greater than in most of the 

 femurs of the present day. 



The lower extremity measures 82 millims. (3'23 inches) in maximum breadth ; 

 this is about the transverse dimension of one of the isolated lower extremities 

 found at Cro-Magnon; the other was narrower, reaching only 75 millims. 

 (2-95 inches). 



We have only to notice towards the upper extremity the existence of a slight 

 external antero-lateral flatness corresponding to the upper third of the shaft, and 

 coexisting with an outward and backward deflection of the outer border of the 

 bone. This anatomical feature (which appears to correspond with a special mode 

 of insertion of the glutei and vastus externus muscles) is one of the most pronounced 

 in the Old Man of Cro-Magnon ; and M. Pruner-Bey has not failed to mention it. 

 It is probable, however, that, if we had not from the beginning possessed osseous 

 remains so exceptionally characteristic as those of that Shelter, this peculiar 

 and constant conformation, which we indicate by the way, being only moderately 

 apparent in the La-Madelaine subject, would, for some time at least, have escaped 

 observation. 



The tibia corresponding to the femur just described has a length of 38 centims. 

 (15 inches) from one articular surface to the other. The femur measuring 46, the 

 ratio of the shin to the thigh equals 82'6 per cent. ; the same ratio in the Man of 

 Mentone is 80'42. These two numbers are much higher than the mean in our 

 existing populations, which is below 77. Moreover this tibia is platycnemic, after 

 the fashion of those from Cro-Magnon, Mentone, &c. The full description given 

 in this work, by Dr. Broca, relieves me from the necessity of further detail on this 

 conformation. It will be sufficient for me to remind the reader that the transverse 

 flattening known in England under the name of " platycnemism " since the publica- 

 tion of Mr. Busk's remarkable memoir*, is exemplified at Cro-Magnon by breadths 

 of 26 and 28 millims. (1 and 1*1 inch) corresponding to thicknesses of 42 and 

 46 millims. (1'65 and 1'81 inch) at the level of the foramen nutritium. The 

 tibia from La Madelaine has a thickness of 37 '5 millims. (1-46 inch) and a breadth 

 of 24 millims. (0'94 inch). An upper portion of the left tibia gives 25'5 for the 

 breadth, and 39 for the thickness. 



We have but a few words to say on the other bones of the lower limb, nearly all 



* 'Transactions of the International Congress of Prehistoric Archaeology, Third Session (Norwich and 

 London), 1868 ' (8vo. London, 1869), pp. 160 &c. See also the < Journal of the Ethnological Society of 

 London,' January 1871, vol. ii. pp. 457 &c. 



