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In this skeleton the 4th lumbar body showed an equality in the vertical diameters ; 

 in those higher up the posterior diameter exceeded the anterior, whilst in the lowest, 

 the anterior was distinctly greater than the posterior diameter. The mean general 

 index of the series of five vertebras was 100*8, and the lumbar spine was in the 

 orthorachic group. 



Upper Limb. — The bones of the upper limb were slender, and the muscular 

 markings were feeble. The Humerus had neither supra-condyloid process nor inter- 

 condylar foramen ; the musculo-spiral groove was shallow, and the shaft had only a 

 slight twist. The right radio-humeral index was 75"3, mesatikerkic. 





Right. 



Left. 



Humerus, head to trochlea, 



292 mm. 



288 mm 



Radius, head to tip of styloid, 



220 „ 



222 „ 



,, ,, base „ ... 



217 „ 



216 „ 



Ulna, olecranon to tip of styloid, . 



238 



240 „ 



„ „ lower articular surface, . 



234 



-jut ,, 



236 „ 



The Clavicles were : right bone, 129 mm., left, 134 mm. long ; their subclavian 

 grooves were scarcely marked. The right Scapula was 129 mm. long and 91 broad, 

 index 70*5 ; the left was 129 mm. and 94 broad, index 72*9; the supra-scapular notch 

 was shallow and not differentiated from the superior border by a sharp margin. 



Lower Limb. — The bones of the lower limb were also slender. In the Femur the 

 trochanters and gluteal ridges were fairly marked, but there was no platymery. The 

 linea aspera and external condylar ridge were distinct, the popliteal triangle was flattened 

 or faintly concave ; the inner condylar articular surface was prolonged backwards and in 

 the same transverse plane as the place of origin of the inner head of the gastrocnemius. 

 The head of the Tibia was slightly retroverted ; the lower articular end was not prolonged 

 on the front of the bone. The antero-posterior diameter of the shaft in the plane of 

 the nutrient foramen was for the right bone, 28 mm. ; for the left, 27 mm. ; the 

 transverse diameter was in each bone 21 mm. ; the index of platyknemia was 75 in 

 the light tibia. 



In No. 605 the tibio-femoral index 86 '4 was dolichoknemic ; in No. 604 the index 

 was 82*96, practically also dolichoknemic, i.e., with a relatively long tibia. 



No. 604. 



No. 605. 



Femur, maximum length, 



„ oblique length, 

 Tibia, condylar surface to tip of malleolus, 



>j „ „ astragalar surfacp, 



Fibula, maximum length, 



Right. 



Left. 



Right. 



Left. 



410 mm. 



410 mm. 



445 mm. 



445 mm 



405 „ 



408 „ 



441 „ 



441 „ 



343 „ 



336 „ 



395 „ 



393 „ 



336 „ 



332 „ 



381 „ 



381 „ 



341 „ 



339 „ 



377 „ 



378. „ 



