THE PIGMIKS. 



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However, one sees that the mean height of these Philippine Aetas — 

 men and women — is about 1^413. 



Let us now pass to the other extremity of the maritime habitat 

 of Negritos . 



When I published the first results of my study of the Mincopies, 

 the number of measurements taken of these islanders, amounted to 

 five only C 1 ) ; they gave l m 480 for the maximum height, lm370 

 for the minimum, and lm436 for the mean. Since then, Mr. Flo- 

 wee, adopting the method of Owen, has attempted, in an excellent 

 anatomical work, to determine the height of Mincopies from the ins- 

 pection of 19 skeletons of men and women. ( 2 ) His results have 

 been confirmed, in a most striking manner, by actual measure- 

 ments taken by Mr. Brander of 15 men and as many women. ( 3 ) 



The following is a table of the figures obtained by these two 

 distinct methods : — 



Mr. Flowe 

 Mr. Brander 



r, | 





Maximum. 



Minimum. 



Average, 



men (*) 



l m 600 



l m 385 



l m 448 



women 



1^481 



l m 302 



l m 375 



15 men 



l m 562 



l m 408 



l m 476 



15 women 



i m Mi 



l m 308 



l m 366 



The difference is very small, and, for the average figures, 

 amounts to m 028 for men, and m 009 only for women. Moreover, 

 for the maxima and minima, the highest numbers balance each 

 other ; these variations must consequently be owing to real differ- 

 ences of height and not to the inductive method followed by one 



( i ) One of these measurements was not actually taken from the native's body 

 but rested on calculations made by Mr. E. Owen and was based on the relative 

 proportion of the length of the femur to the total height of the individual. 

 (Transact ions of the Ethnological Society, vol II, p 40.) 



( 2 ) On the Osteology and Affinities of the Natives of the Andaman Islands 

 by W. H. Flower (Journal of the Anthropological Institute, vol. IX, p. 108.^) 



(3) Stature of the Andamanese, in which Mr. Flower gives the results 

 obtained by Mr. C. E. Brander. (Journal of the Anthropological Insti- 

 tute, vol. X, p. 124^). Mr. Brander's paper came out in the Proceedings 

 of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1878-1879, p. 416. 



(•*) The English anatomist does not indicate the number of skeletons of 

 both sexes he had examined. 



