124 PROFESSOR SIR W. TURNER ON 



place in the attitude of squatting.* The Fibula was well marked in its surfaces, borders, 

 and muscular impressions. 



The long bones had the following dimensions : — 



Right. 

 Femur, maximum length, ....... 368 mm. 



,, oblique length, 

 Tibia condylar surface to tip of malleolus, . 

 „ „ astragalar surface, 



Fibula, maximum length, 



365 

 299 

 295 

 299 



It will be observed that the tibia and fibula are of the same length. The tibio- 

 femoral index, calculated from the oblique length of the femur and the condylo-astragalar 

 length of the tibia, was 80"9, and the leg, therefore, scarcely reached dolichoknemic pro- 

 portions ; a result similar to that which I obtained from the measurement of four 

 skeletons of Andaman Islanders, in which the mean index was 81*2. An index of the 

 relative length of the upper and lower limbs, called intermembral index, has been 



,, . -, , , , n ,, £ -, humerus + radius x 100 ,. -, ,, 



obtained by the following formula tt-. , m which the maximum 



lemur + tibia 



length of the bones was taken. In the Sakai skeleton this index was 68 '3, which is some- 

 what less than the mean 6 8 '9 obtained some years ago by Flower and myself from the 

 measurement of a number of skeletons of Andaman Islanders. In both these people 

 this index is relatively low, and points to the bones of the shaft of the upper limb, being 

 short in comparison with those of the lower limb. The relative lengths of the humerus 



and femur have been calculated by the formula -. , and the index is 687, a 



lemur 



number which is less than the mean 70 obtained by Flower and myself in the Andaman 



Islanders. 



With the view of obtaining an estimate of the stature of the person whose skeleton 



I had examined, I compared the length of the femur and tibia with that of the 



corresponding bones of a male Andaman islander in the University Museum,! whose 



articulated skeleton was 4 feet 6-^ inches (1385 mm.) in height. The oblique length of 



the femur in this skeleton was 385 mm. (15^ ins.), and the condylo-astragalar length 



of the tibia was 322 mm. (12^ ins.) — together, 707 mm. (27^ ins.) : whilst in the 



Sakai skeleton the corresponding diameters in the two bones were together only 660 



mm. (26 ins.), which points to a stature about two inches less than that of the 



Andaman islander. 



A short time after the receipt of the skeleton of the Sakai, Dr Duncan Scott 



presented me with a skull found in the jungle in Ulu Pahang, on the eastern sea-board 



of the Malay peninsula, immediately to the north of Johore. The collector from 



whom Dr Scott received it could not say whether it was a Sakai or a Malay, but 



* Journal of Anat. and Phys., 1889-1894. 



t I am indebted to Colonel Cadell, V.C, for the gift of this skeleton, which I have had articulated. 



