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minimum circumference is found either near the upper end or near the maleolus. 

 HANS VlRCHOW [1903, 794] rightly advises that the study of the skeleton should not 

 be limited to the individual bones, but that the manner in which they are joined should also 

 be investigated. Joining together tibia N°. III and the fibula that belongs to it, it strikes one 

 that the interosseal space is much broader than with the European, affording much more room 

 for the attachment of muscles, amongst which the musc, tibialis anticus was found to be 

 very strongly developed (FORSTER [1904, 115]). Besides the axes of fibula and tibia lie almost 

 in a frontal plane. For comparison I give fig. 215, a reproduction of a drawing of SPALTEHOLZ 



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Fig. 215. Section through European crus, at the middle. 



Fig. 216. Section through Papuan crus, at the middle. 



1. Faciès posterior tibiae. 



2. Margo medialis „ 



3. Faciès „ „ 



4. Crista anterior v 



5. Faciès lateralis tibiae. 



6. Cristae interosseae. 



7. Crista anterior fibulae. 

 S. Faciès lateralis „ 



9. Crista lateralis fibulae. 



10. Faciès posterior „ 



11. Crista medialis „ 



12. Faciès „ „ 



[1899, I, 135, fig. i8o a ], representing a transverse section of the bones of an European crus, 

 at the middle of the length, placed alongside such a section (fig. 216) of the above-named 

 Papuan bones, in natural position. 



