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L. Manouvrier — Pithecanthropus erectus. 



special appointment within a space of a few meters to leave 

 there, one its skull, another two teeth, and a third its femur, 

 the whole without want of correlation. 



As regards the femur, I have studied particularly the char- 

 acter upon which Mr. Dubois insists, viz : the almost cylindri- 

 cal form of this bone in the poplitic region, 4 centimeters 

 above the upper margin of the condyles. At this level, the 

 transverse diameter is ordinarily much greater than the antero- 

 posterior diameter. On the femur of Trinil these two diame- 

 ters are almost equal. At the same time, if we measure, 

 beginning at a point anterior m, two antero-posterior diameters, 

 the one ending at the median point p, the other at the point n 

 situated on the external branch of the bifurcation of the linea 

 aspera, we find mn < mp. I have been able to find this 

 double character on only six human femurs out of more than 

 a thousand belonging to races very diverse. Again it is less 

 accentuated than on the femur from Java, so that this femur 

 presents also in this respect a new "caractere limite" for the 

 human species. One human femur alone presented this char- 

 acter to the same degree as the femur of Trinil ; it is a Parisian 

 femur of the Middle Ages, and this bone is pathologic ; it 

 presents grave coxalgic lesions and divers characters attesting 

 a consecutive functional impotence. A detailed interpretation 

 of the character in question is found in the Bulletin de la 

 Societe oV Anthropologic (t. vi, 4 me ser.). It can be summed 

 up as follows : 



Fjg. 3 (fig. 55) — Transverse section of the femur 4 centimeters from the 

 upper margin of the condyles. — Scheme representing the passage from the com- 

 mon type 1 to the form of the femur of Trinil 6. — EI, Transverse axis. — Ap r 

 Antero-posterior axis. 



