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shire and Wiltshire, from which counties also the Round Barrow 
specimens were likewise obtained. The tallest Long Barrow skeleton 
in the " Crania Britannica" series has an estimated stature of lm. 
874, his femur being 508 mm. long, which is exactly the same length 
as the longest femur from Howe Hill ; the shortest man has an 
estimated stature of 1 m. 546, which is also exactly the same as that 
of the shortest skeleton from Howe Hill. The range of variation in 
stature of both series is practically the same ; in both there is a 
disturbing element owing to the presence of an usually tall individual, 
which raises the average stature of each group to a figure higher 
than it should be. To get at the true mean stature of the groups, 
I have again employed Mr. Galton's graphic method, which shows 
that the stature at the 25th and 75th centesimal grades is respectively 
1 m. 585, and 1 m 715 in the Howe Hill specimens, and 1 m 652, 
and 1 m. 730 in the Long Barrow series, the respective values of Q, 
(i.e., half the difference between the statures at each of these two 
grades), are 65 and 39 mm., giving to the former series a corrected 
mean stature at the 50th grade of 1 m. 650, and the latter of 1 m. 
691, the observed mean of the former being 1 m. 653, and of the 
latter 1 m. 702. 
On the other hand, the tallest Round Barrow skeleton in the 
"Crania Britannica" has an estimated stature of 1 m. 920, (75*6 
inches), and the shortest of 1 m. 686 (66*3 inches) while the rest of 
the series range themselves regularly between these extremes. 
In the Memoirs of the Anthropological Society of London, Vol. 
Ill, p. 41, Dr. Thurnam gives the length of the femur of twenty-five 
males from Long Barrows as 457 mm. which gives an estimated 
stature of 1 m. 686, while the femur in twenty- seven males from 
Round Barrows averaged 477*5 which gives an average stature in them 
of 1 m. 761. 
The Howe Hill specimens may also be compared with skeletons 
obtained by General Pitt Rivers, from Rotherley, Woodcuts, and 
Winklebury. The medium stature of eleven skeletons found at 
Rotherley was 1 m. 562 (61.5 inches), and of seven from Woodcuts 
which were rather more mixed in type, 1 m. 644 (64*7 inches). 
The general conformation of the skulls obtained from these two 
