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 The Lunibar Vertebrcs. — continued. 



Srd. Lumbar Vertebra — mm. 



Anterior height, . . 27 



Posterior ,, . .30 



Vertebral Index, . . 111-1 



4th. Liimbar Vertebra — 



Anterior height, . . 27 



Posterior ,, . .27 



Vertebral Index, . . 100-0 



5th. Lumbar Vertebra — 



Anterior height, . . 27 



Posterior ,, . .26 



Vertebral Index, . . 96-3 



Lumbo-vertebral Index, . 105-3 



The lumbo-vertebral index is extremely high. The average indices 

 for various races are^ — 



76 Europeans, . . . 95-8 



17 Australians, . . . 107*8 



23 Andamans, . . .104*8 



10 Negroes, . . .105-4 



In only one European spine yet recorded is the index so high 

 as in the present instance, viz. in an Irish male subject in whom it 

 reached 107-7. It is much to be regretted that no other lumbar 

 vertebrae were recovered, as it would be a matter of much interest to 

 ascertain, whether this is merely an isolated case, or whether the great 

 flexibility of spine which it indicates is to be regarded as a character- 

 istic of the people to whom these bones belonged. 



Group III. Contains only a pair of innominate bones and a right 

 femur, all evidently belonging to the same individual, a male. The 

 femur when received had been recently fractured across the middle, it 

 was easily repaired however, and measured 448 mm. in length, it 

 evidently belonged to a young adult of low stature, 1632 mm., or 

 5 ft. 4|- in. in height. 



- Vide "The Lumbar Curve in Man and the Apes," Cunningham Memoirs, 

 R. I. Acad., No. 2, p. 5. 



