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PROFESSOR SIR W. TURNER ON 



dolicho-pellic. The highest indices which I had previously recorded # were in a male 

 Australian 1 16, a male Bushman 109, and a male Malay 105. The highest brim index in 

 the male Andaman pelves which I have measured was 102. The want of expansion in 

 the iliac fossae was shown by the small breadth between the crests of these bones. The 

 width of the pubic arch, with its angle 80°, gave a feminine aspect to the pelvis which 

 led me at first to doubt, notwithstanding the cranial characters, if the skeleton were 

 that of a male. Of the numerous pelves which I have measured in the female sex, no 

 specimen up to this time has shown the conjugate diameter to exceed the transverse, 

 whilst in the males of savage races this is not unfrequent. In the Sakai pelvis the 

 conjugate was so much in excess that I regard it as confirmatory evidence of the 

 skeleton being of the male sex. I may also state that in a male pelvis in each of the 

 following races I have measured the subpubic angle as follows : — Andaman, 78° ; 

 Chinese, 76° ; Malay, 76° ; Bush, 72°. 



Measurements of Pelvis. 





mm. 



1. Breadth of pelvis, 



2. Height of pelvis, 













211 

 164 



3. Breadth-Height Index, 



4. Between ant. sup. iliac spines, 



5. Between post. sup. iliac spines, 



6. Between ischial tubera, 













77-7 

 193 



80 

 126 



7. Vertical diameter of obturator foramen, 









38 



8. Transverse diameter of obturator foramen, 









31 



9. Obturator Index, ..... 









81-6 



10. Subpubic angle, 



1 1 . Transverse diameter of brim, 













80° 

 106 



12. Conjugate diameter of brim, 



13. Pelvic or Brim Index, 













115 

 108-5 



14. Intertuberal diameter, 













107 



15. Depth of pelvic cavity, 



16. Length of sacrum, 













72 

 94 



17. Breadth of sacrum, . 













96 



18. Sacral Index, 













102 



Upper Limb. — The Clavicles were slender bones, feebly curved, and with faintly- 

 marked grooves for the subclavius muscles. The right bone was 120 mm., the left 123 

 mm. long. The Scapulae were small in their dimensions, with well-marked muscular 

 impressions indicative of strong muscles ; the axillary border was concave in its 

 long diameter, the supra-scapular notch was shallow. The right bone was 122 mm. 

 long and 83 broad, its scapular index was 68 ; the left bone was 123 mm. long and 

 80 broad, its index was 65. The mean index of the two scapulae was 66'5, which is less 

 than the mean of 69*8 obtained by Flower and Gaeson from twenty-one scapulae of 

 Andaman Islanders, and of 70'6 by myself from six scapulae of that race. The Humeri 

 had strong muscular impressions and distinct musculo-spiral grooves ; no intercondylar 



* Challenger lleport on Human Skeletons, part xlvii., 1886. 



