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PYGMIES AND FOREST NEGROES 



The following indices have been calculated, and are contrasted with those of 

 other races ; — 



Radio-humeral 



Humero-femoral 



Tibio-femoral 



Inter-membral (hume- 

 rus and radius : 

 femur and tibia) 



The dimensions of the scapulae are :- 



Professor Flower, in the table shown below, draws attention to the remarkable 

 characters of the Akka scapulEe ; those of the Bambute are still more remarkable : — 



200 21 



Europeans. Andamanese 



Negroes. 



1 

 Akka. 



Bambute. 



Scapular index . 65-2 ' 69-8 71^7 80-3 87 



Infraspinous index i 89-4 [ 92-7 100-9 112-2 106 



However, as has been pointed out by Turner in the Challenger reports, this index 

 shows great individual variation, and much stress must not be laid on any save large 

 series of observations. 



Peopoetions Accoeding to Height. (Stature = 100.) 



Humerus 

 -Radius . 

 Femur . 

 Tibia . 



* Humphry, " A Treatise on the Human Skeleton." 



