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that the upper part of the bone looks more or less compressée!. To détermine the curvature 

 of the radius, FISCHER [1903, 169, fig. 2] drew a straight line from the latéral border of the 

 styloid process to the same side of the head, and indicated the greatest déviation of 

 the diaphyse from that line in percentages of the length, in thèse radii only 0.5°/ . According 

 to the expérience that maie long bones hâve larger epiphyses than female, thèse radii, having 

 a circumference of head of 47 m. m., might be maie. Ail three hâve well developed ridges 

 and a nutrient foramen near the muscular roughness for the attachment of the pronator teres 

 muscle. The sulcus for the tendon of the musc, extens. poil, longus is well-marked. 



Fémur. Six spécimens, forming three pairs. Their length (médian 426 m. m.), large in 

 comparison to the circumference in the middle of the bone (81 m. m.), causes the index to be 

 only 19.1; according to SOULARUE [1899, 338] it is 20.4 in Europeans. The tendency 

 towards great length with small thickness is also shownin the rather large collo-diaphysal 

 angle (in the right spécimens some degrees larger than in the left), on an average 132°, 

 which raises the collum upwards, and in the slenderness of the collum and smallness of the 

 head. That the total length of the upper epiphyse (93 m. m.) is less than in an average 

 European fémur, is the resuit of the trochanter major being much thinner, that is to say 

 less developed in a latéral direction. As a resuit of the large collo-diaphysal angle the upper 

 border of the great trochanter, when in a natural position of the fémur, scarcely reaches to 

 the horizontal line of the articulai - head. The crista intertrochanteria is feebly developed, so 

 that the lesser trochanter stands more apart, and whilst being placed more towards the 

 médian line than in the European fémur its axis has a more dorsal direction. A trochanter 

 tertius is not to be found, but the tuberositas glutealis is strongly developed in two 

 spécimens and both labia of the linea aspera merge into a plain pilaster, both latéral surfaces 

 of which are slightly concave. A clear platymery, though with a high range of individual 

 variation, is borne out by an average index pilastricus of 123.4, which surpasses even those 

 of Negroes (119.8), Veddahs (122. 1) and Australians (122.2) (see MARTIN [1905, 610]). Distally, 

 both labia of the linea aspera, where they include the planum popliteum, are well deve- 

 loped, specially the medial labium, which forms hère a sharp ridge. The breadth of the 

 condyles is 73 m. m.. Their articular surface extends high upwards at the back and terminâtes on 

 the medial condyle nearly horizontally, a resuit of the custom of squatting. The curvature 

 of the diaphyse is rather strong; placed on a fiât surface, the highest élévation is found at 

 '/ 4 of the length from the distal end. The angle of torsion, averaging 24 , is (Martin [1. c, 

 625]) only surpassed by the Senoi, Ona, Negroes and Maori. For Europeans the average 

 amounts to 8°. 



Tibia. Five right spécimens, showing a degree of platycnemy which in the neighbour- 

 hood of the nutrient foramen is quite as large as in the middle of the bone and must be con- 

 sidered as one of the highest known. A comparison with European tibiae shows that 

 the margo medialis has been removed more towards the back, that the strongly convex 

 faciès posterior is directed more medially and in the crista interossea joins the faciès lateralis 

 at a very obtuse angle. One can almost speak of a linea interossea. It runs in an almost 

 straight line towards the frontal part of the latéral edge of the lower epiphyse, thus differing 

 from European tibiae, where this line runs in a curve. The crista anterior runs as usual with 

 a faint curve (above medially, below laterally convex) to the front side of the maleolus. 



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