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The forearm was moderately long in proportion to the upper arm, and the resulting 

 index is mesatikerkic. 



Shaft of the Lower Limb. — The Femur was a well-shaped bone with the muscular 

 processes and ridges moderately developed. The articular surface of the head had the 

 extensor area faintly prolonged for a short distance outwards on the front and upper 

 border of the neck. The anterior intertrochanteric line was thick and roughened and 

 indicated a strong anterior ilio-femoral ligament and power of complete extension of 

 the hip- joint. No flattening of the upper third of the shaft of the femur existed, and 

 there was no external infratrochanteric ridge distinct from the gluteal ridge. The 

 transverse diameter of the shaft a little below the small trochanter was 28 mm., and the 

 antero-posterior diameter in the same plane was 23 mm. ; the platymeric index was 

 82. At the middle of the shaft the transverse diameter was 25 mm. and the antero- 

 posterior was 27 mm., which gave a pilastric index 108. The popliteal surface 

 of the shaft was faintly concave. Each internal condyle had the articular surface 

 behind prolonged a little above the upper border of the intercondylar fossa. 



Tibia.- — The head showed considerable retroversion ; the internal condylar surface 

 was concave and the external was concavo-convex. The vertical axis of the shaft 

 formed with that of the head a distinct angle. The shaft was laterally compressed 

 and with a sharp anterior border. In the right bone the antero-posterior diameter 

 in the plane of the nutrient foramen was 31 mm., and the transverse diameter 

 was 19 mm. ; the shaft therefore was platyknemic, with an index 61 "3. The correspond- 

 ing diameters in the left bone were 32 and 19 mm., and the index of platyknemia 

 was 5 9 '3. The astragalar articular surface was slightly prolonged on the anterior border 

 of the lower end of the bone. The supero-external part of the tibial surface of the 

 astragalus was slightly prolonged on the neck of that bone, but did not nearly reach the 

 scaphoid articular surface. 



Fibula. — This bone was slender and with feeble muscular markings. 





Right. 



Left. 



Femur, maximum length, .... 



435 mm. 



435 mm 



„ oblique length, .... 



• 432 „ 



430 „ 



Tibia from condylar surfaces to tip of malleolus, 



370 „ 



369 „ 



„ ,, ,, astragalar surface. . 



356 „ 



358 „ 



Fibula, maximum length, .... 



361 „ 



362 „ 



The inequalities in the length of the bones in opposite limbs were so slight that it 

 will suffice to state the limb indices on the right side only. The tibio-femoral index 

 was 82*4, so that the leg was relatively long and almost in the dolichoknemic group. 

 The femoro-humeral index was high, 78, and the humerus was therefore relatively long. 

 The intermembral index, 74, was also high in the Veddah skeleton. 



As the descriptions by Busk, Flower, De Quatrefages and Hamy, Barnard Davis, 

 Rolleston, Virchow, Arthur Thomson, and Paul and Fritz Sarasin on the skulls 

 of Veddahs have been considered in Part II. of these memoirs, it is not necessary again 



