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high, it averages 80 in the six other skeletons, which is almost the 
same as that given by Broca, Topinard, and Rollet for Europeans. 
Although in persons of tall stature Topinard found that the index is 
somewhat higher than in short persons (averaging 81*1 in males with 
statures between 1 m. 70 and 2 m. 06, and 797 in those with statures 
varying from 1 m. 43 to 1 m. 60) the index is so high in D as to lead 
us to suspect that some error has occurred in recording the length of 
the tibia in that skeleton. 
The index of Platycnemism, or the relation between the 
transverse breadth of the tibia to its antero-posterior diameter 
was ascertained only in the two specimens K and I which were 
measured by me ; in the former it is 64*9, and in the latter 67*6, 
giving an average of 66*3 for the two specimens. The measurements 
for this index were taken by Busk's method about 4 cm. below the 
nutrient foramen of the bone. The average index in English people 
is 73, so that the specimens from Howe Hill Barrow, are markedly 
platycnemic as compared with the existing inhabitants. 
To trace the relations of the people represented by these 
skeletons, it is necessary to study, as far as materials will permit, the 
characters and dimensions of those of the earlier races who have 
successively inhabited various parts of England. For this purpose, I 
have calculated the stature of all the Barrow specimens of adult 
males described in the " Crania Britannica " by Dr. Barnard Davis. 
As, however, he only gives the dimensions of the femur, I have only 
been able to do so from it, and not from the femur and tibia, as I 
would have preferred to do. The results are as follows : — The 
average stature of eight Long Barrow skeletons is 1 m. 698 (66*8 
inches), the average length of the femur being 460 mm., while that of 
twelve Round Barrow skeletons is 1 m. 793 (70"6 inches). 
Between the average stature, estimated from the femur, of the 
Howe Hill series, which I have previously stated, is 1 m. 672, and 
that of the Long Barrow specimens, the difference is only 26 mm. ; 
while between the former and Round Barrow series it is 118 mm. It 
is therefore clear that the skeletons from Howe Hill correspond very 
closely to Dr. Barnard Davis's Long Barrow series, which, I may 
mention, includes specimens from Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Gloucester- 
