342 VARIETIES IN FIGURE, 



feet 9 inches, were respectively two feet 11 inches and lOj 

 inches. 



In a Negro skeleton of 5 feet 7^ inches, the measurement 

 between the anterior superior spines was 8| inches. 



SoEMMERRiNG givcs the following statement of compa- 

 rative measures : — 



In. Lines. 



" In my skeleton of a Negro, about 20 years old, 



the great diameter of the pelvis is 3 11| 



the small 3 71 



In another of 14 years, the great diameter is 3 2 



the small 2 9 



In an European of 16 years, the great diameter is . 4 3 



the small 3 9 



In an old well-made European, inferior in stature 



to the Negro of 20 years, the great 4 6 



the small 3 11" 



Camper * states that the great diameter of the pelvis, 

 from one os innominatum to the other, was to the small 

 diameter, from the sacrum to the symphysis pubis, in the 



Negro as, 39 to 271 



European 41 ..27 



Yet the Negro was much taller than the European. 

 The proportion in another European was as 44 to 28 



In Albinus's male skeleton 66 . . 43 



In a female European skeleton 49 . . 28 



In two others 44 . . 28 



— the Farnese Hercules 48 . . 34 



Antinous ^0 . . 34 



Apollo 36 . . 28 



according to Albert Durer 35 . . 20 



Venus de Medici 46 . . 34t. 



The same slenderness of the trunk may be observed in 

 some of the Indians : it is at least apparent in the Lascars, 

 who come to this country in the East-India ships. Their 



* Transactions of the Dutch Society of Rotterdam, in Dutch; v. i. 

 t Vonder korp. Vcrschicd. p. S4-5. 



