THE ST. JOHN'S RIVER, FLORIDA. 



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For the purpose of comparison we give a table of indices of the femur given 

 by Dr. Topinard in his " Elements a" Anthropologic Generate" page 1019, where, in 

 addition, can be found full details as to the pilastered femur. 



1 Anonymous femur 



1 Cro-Magnon ... 



5 Great Canaries, No. 5 . 



5 " " No. 1 . . 



1 Minimum of the latter 



9 Cavern de I'Homme Mort (polished stone) 



1 Minimum of same . . . 



15 Grotto of Bray (polished stone) . 

 15 Grotto of Orrouy (polished stone) 

 15 Parisians ..... 



20 African negroes 



158-0 

 128-0 

 117-5 



97-5 



90-9 

 109-6 



95-6 

 106-7 

 109-3 

 109.2 

 105-8 



71 -S 

 127-6 

 111-1 



79-7 



1 Minimum of same 

 13 New Caledonians .... 



2 Rachitic femurs . 

 8 Anthropoids . . . . 



Attention is called to the maximum index of one femur found at Tick Island ; 

 namely, 153. Its mate has been submitted to Dr. Topinard who has kindly fur- 

 nished the following note : (translation). 



" Description of a diaphysis of a femur, submitted to me by Mr. Clarence B. 

 Moore, from a mound at Tick Island, Florida. 



" Femur from the right side, originally about 15. centimeters in length, belong- 

 ing to a subject, male in all probability, about F67 meters in height. 



" It has a slight inward curve or bend, the center of incurvation corresponding 

 to the junction of the upper and the middle thirds where the two lips of the linea 

 aspera begin to separate. 



" The lower end of the specimen is circular, or rather oval, with maximum 

 diameter antero-posterior, showing that a good extent of the bone is lacking at this 

 extremity. 



" The upper end terminates below the trochanters, and shows the usual flatten- 

 ing from before backward. 



" The middle two-thirds of the diaphysis are compressed laterally, thus losing 

 the prismatic, triangular form ordinarily found at this level. Nevertheless three 

 faces and three borders present themselves : an anterior face, narrow, rounded and 

 limited by the two anterior borders also rounded ; an external face plane or slightly 

 convex ; an internal face concave longitudinally ; and a thick posterior border drawn 

 out into a pilaster. 



" The breadth of the linea aspera is notable, measuring 8 millimeters. Below, 

 the margins separate for their course to the condyles ; above, the separation is still 

 greater, the internal margin passing toward the lesser trochanter, the external 

 toward the greater. 



