REPOET ON THE BONES OF THE HUMAN SKELETON. 
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Cove skeletons ; whilst in the female from West Victoria the maximum length of the 
tibia was only 340 mm. The maximum tibia in the left leg of the Otago New Zealander 
was 401 mm., and in the skeleton from Te Aroha 365 mm. In one female Oahuan the 
tibiae each measured 362 mm., in the other the maximum tibia was 332 mm. The 
maximum tibia in the three Negros was 419 mm., and the minimum 410 mm., and in 
the two Negresses the maximum was 385 and the minimum 348 mm. In the male 
Esquimaux the maximum tibia was 375 mm., in the female 347 mm. In the male Lapp 
the maximum tibia was 307 mm.; in the female each tibia measured 290 mm. In the 
Bushman both tibiae measured 334 mm. In one Andaman Islander the right tibia (an 
odd bone) was 362 mm. long, in another 337 mm., in a third the left tibia was 336 mm., 
in a fourth 296 mm. In seventeen of the fifty-eight tibiae measured the malleolus 
projected 10 mm. beyond the inferior articular surface of the tibia : in twenty-four 
specimens the projection was less than 10 mm. — the shortest malleoli being in the male 
Esquimaux, whete the right was only 6 mm. and the left 5 mm. long ; in seventeen 
specimens the malleolar projection was more than 10 mm., and the skeletons in which 
they reached their maximum were the Sikh, in which both internal malleoli were 13 mm., 
and the right tibia of the Queensland Australian, and the left tibia of the tallest Hindoo, 
in each of which the malleolus was 14 mm. long. In none of the tibiae was the spine 
included in the length of the bone, as Broca's osteometric board provides for the length 
being taken from the condylar articular surfaces. 
In the next place I shall direct attention to the relative length of the corresponding 
bones in opposite limbs of the same skeleton. The right femur was longer than the left 
in the Sikh, a male Hindoo, one male Australian, one female from Oahu, the male Lapp, 
and three Negros. The left femur was longer than the right in a male and female 
Hindoo, in the Chinese, one female and four male Australians, two New Zealanders, three 
Andaman Islanders, one Oahuan, a female Lapp, two Esquimaux, and one Negro. The 
right and left femora were equal in length in a male Australian, a New Zealander, and in 
the Bush skeleton. Frequently the difference in length between opposite femora was 
not more than 1, 2, or 3 mm.; but in the Chinese the left femur was 5 mm. longer than 
the right, in a Negro and male Hindoo the right femur was 5 mm. the longer, in a male 
Australian, a male New Zealander, and a male Hindoo the left femur was 6 mm. 
the longer, in an Andaman Islander the left femur was 7 mm. the longer, and in a female 
Australian it was 12 mm. the longer. 
The right tibia was longer than the left in the Sikh, two male Hindoos, the Malay, 
Chinese, a male Andaman Islander, four male Australians, and two Negros. The left tibia 
was longer than the right in the female and two male Australians, a female Hindoo, one 
Oahuan, a New Zealander, two Andaman Islanders, a Lapp, and both Esquimaux. The 
right and left tibiae were equal in length in an Oahuan, a Bush, a Lapp, and a Negro skeleton. 
Usually the differences in length were only 1 or 2 mm., but in the Riverina Australian 
