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diameter is 117 mm., and the conjugate 100 mm., the brim index therefore is 85. 
A, B. Meyer, however doubts if this pelvis is that of a Negrito, and considers it to be a 
Negress.-^ It will be observed that all these pelves are those of women, and so far as I 
know no male Negrito pelvis from the Philippines has yet been described, although 
apparently a number of specimens are in German museums, so that the mean brim index 
of the male pelvis cannot at present be stated. 
The measurements of a single male Nikobar Islander in the Berlin Museum have 
been given by Gustaf Fritsch in his Table II. The transverse diameter of the brim 
was 102 mm., the conjugate 91 mm., and the pelvic index was 89. It was therefore 
in the liigher term of the platypellic division, but in all probability the mean index 
in this race will be found to be higher when a large average has been obtained. 
Dr. Barnard Davis has given the dimensions of the pelvis in three male and one 
female Tasmanian skeleton. The pelvic index in the female was 83, and the mean index 
of the three males was 9 3 '3. M. Verneau has recorded the measurements of a single 
male Tasmanian pelvis; its transverse diameter was 108 mm., its conjugate 95 mm., 
and its brim index 88. The mean of the four male pelves was 92, and not one exceeded 
95, so that in all probability the Tasmanian pelvis is mesatipellic (mesatilekanic). 
In the series of Papuan bones in the Dresden Museum collected by Dr. A. B. Meyer, 
near Rubi, Geelvinks Bay, New Guinea, are several sacra and innominate bones, and 
from these a male and a female pelvis have been artificially articulated. The dimensions 
of the brim of the male pelvis have been given both by Meyer and Tiingel and by Winckel 
as transverse diameter. 111 mm., conjugate, 107 mm., the pelvic index was therefore 96 "4 ; 
those of the female pelvis as given by Winckel are transverse, 114 mm., conjugate, 106 
mm., pelvic index 107 '5. M. Verneau has stated the brim measurements in a female from 
New Guinea (erroneously marked male in his Synoptic Table), to be, transverse diameter, 
136 mm., conjugate, 113 mm., with a brim index therefore of 83. 
Of the smaller islands of the Pacific, M. Verneau has measured a fine series of 
pelves from New Caledonia, three of which were females and twelve males. The 
mean transverse diameter of the brim in three females was 123 mm., the mean 
conjugate 110 mm., and the brim index was 89. The mean transverse diameter in 
twelve males was 114, the mean conjugate 104 mm., and the brim index was 91. 
The same observer has recorded the transverse diameter of the brim in a male Loyalty 
Islander, from Lifu, as 116 mm. and the conjugate diameter as 124 mm., with a 
brim index 107. His two male Sandwich Islanders had a mean transverse diameter of 
the brim of 114 mm. and a mean conjugate of 92 mm. which yielded a brim index 
of 81, and the mean brim index in my three female Sandwich Islanders was 83. M. 
Verneau's male pelvis from Tonga had a transverse diameter of 126 mm. and a con- 
jugate of 121 mm., with a brim index of 96 ; his male pelvis from Mangareva had a 
1 Sitzungsb. der Naturf. Ges. zu Leipzig, November 9, 1880. 
