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The following table is also of interest, as exemplifying the same law in certain 
extreme cases, in giants and dwarfs*. 
Stature 
Index 
of size 
Capitulo-statural index 
v/lndex of size 
v'index of size x 100 
Stature 
ft. 
in. cm. 
Irish giant, O'Brian 
7 
7 231-1 
4557 
16-58 
7-17 
American giant, Freeman 
6 
9 20.5-7 
4085 
15-99 
7-77 
363 All claswes, British, ^ 
5 
7 170-0 
4007 
15-88 
9-33 
Dwarf from Kiel, ^ 
4 
0 121 9 
2788 
14-07 
11-55 
Dwarf from Holstein, ... 
3 
2i 97-8 
2699 
13-92 
14-23 
In conchision I must express my thanks to Mr Freke Field, who has worked 
out most of the tables in this section of the paper, and to Mr J. W. Stockwell and 
Mr G. Fairclough, who have taken the majority of the measurements. 
DESCRIPTION OF PLATES. 
Plate 11. Fig. A. Longitiulinal section through sluill of a child between five and six years of age. 
Fig. B. Longitudinal section through a normal adult skull. From the Anatomical Department, 
Middlesex Hospital. 
Fig. C. Interior of the vault of the skull of an adult male. Note the thickness of the sawn edge of the 
bone, and the size of the frontal sinuses. From a specimen 417 a, in the Museum of the Eoyal 
College of Surgeons, London. 
Fig. D. Interior of the vault of the skull of a child, aged about four. Note the thinness of the sawn 
edge of the bone, and the absence of the frontal sinuses. From a specimen in the Museum 
of the Eoyal College of Surgeons, London. 
Plate III. E skull, F skeleton of man of 25 years with hydrocephalus. From specimen 3878 in 
the Hunterian Museum of Eoyal College of Surgeons. 
* For permission to measure the skeletons of the two giants, which are contained in the Hunterian 
Museum of the Eoyal College of Surgeons, England, 1 am indebted to Professor C. Stewart. In 
calculating the ' indices of size ' of the heads, 4-5 mm. were added to the vertical diameter, and 9 mm. to 
the longitudinal and transverse diameters, as taken on the bare skull, thus allowing about 0-5 mm. on 
each diameter for shrinkage of the skull in drying. See table, p. 110, ' Males 20 — 46 years of age.' 
