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REPORT ON BONES FROM HARLYN BAY. 



Thus the average deficiency was : 



By Manouvrier, with the femtir — 12 millimeters. 



with 4 bones — 6 



By Pearson . . with femtir — 33 



mean of 10 methods — 23 



By EoUet . , with femur — 44 



with 4 bones — 15 



By Beddoe .. with femur — 11 



The number, however, was insufficient to yield a trustworthy 

 average ; and the proportions of some of these wretches were 

 apparently rather abnormal. 



Other criteria, employed by Pearson in default of better 

 ones, seem of little or no value. Such are those afforded by the 

 bones of the Aino, the Bushmen, the Andamanese. Pearson's 

 method comes ou.t extremely well in the Aino, and Manouvrier's 

 and mine fairly ; in the other races just mentioned, Pearson's 

 appears to me to fail, while what he calls Plower's, which is jaretty 

 nearly Topinard' s, answers better. The reason of all this I take 

 to be, that the Aino are a race who would be tall if they could, 

 a race stunted by unfavorable conditions, such as cold and 

 starvation ; whereas the Bushmen are genuine hereditary p^'gmies, 

 and are, quoad bones at least, normally proportioned. 



