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the proportion of the radius to the humerus is higher than in Europeans. Data are 
wanting for giving the relative length of the tibia and femur. It is possible, however, 
that the Malays, like the Chinese, may have the humerus shorter in relation to the 
femur, and the shaft of the upper limb shorter in relation to that of the lower limb than 
in Europeans. The skull of the Malay belonging to the skeleton described in this Report 
was characterised by great parieto- occipital flattening, so that the cephalic index was 
abnormally high, 91, and also the vertical index, 87. It was orthognathous, G.I. 93*9 ; 
leptorhine, N.I. 41 ; megaseme, O.I. 95 ; brachyuranic, P.M.L 127. 
In the American Indians the transverse diameter of the pelvic brim decidedly exceeds 
the conjugate ; the brim index is platypellic. The Yahgan Fuegians have a similar 
relation. The sacrum is broader than long both in the Indians of the American continent 
and in the Fuegians. The scapular index approximates to that of Europeans. In the 
continental Indians the radius is apparently a little longer in proportion to the humerus, 
and the index is mesatikerkic ; but in the Fuegians its proportional length is still greater, 
and the index is dolichokerkic. The tibia is long in relation to the femur, dolicho- 
knemic, both in the continental Indians and the Fuegians, and in the Fuegians the upper 
limb is relatively longer than the lower. The continental American Indians are, with 
the exception of some tribes, brachycephalic, and perhaps mesognathous ; the Fuegians 
again are mesaticephalic and mesognathous, though individual crania have dolicho- 
cephalic proportions. 
In both the Lapps and Esquimaux the index of the pelvic brim is probably platypellic, 
and the sacral index platyhieric. The collective vertical diameters of the bodies of the 
lumbar vertebrae is probably greater in front than behind. The scapular index is 
apparently distinctly below that of Europeans. The radius is short in relation to the 
humerus, brachykerkic. The tibia is short in relation to the femur, brachyknemic. The 
humerus is long in relation to the femur, and the upper limb is relatively long in pro- 
portion to the lower. Although in their general characters the skeletons of my Lapps 
and Esquimaux present many points of similarity, yet they diSer materially in certain 
of their craniological aspects. Both the Lapp skulls are markedly brachycephalic (C.I. 
86*5 male, 86'7 female), and the Esquimaux dolichocephalic (C.I. 74 male, 70'8 female). 
They all agree, however, in having the vertical index below the cephalic; in the two 
Lapps this index is 76*5 and 69*7, and in the two Esquimaux 70*8 and 68. In the male 
Lapp the gnathic index is orthognathous, in the female mesognathous, and the same 
applies to the male and female Esquimaux. In both Lapps and Esquimaux the nasal 
index is leptorhine. In both the Lapps, the orbital index is megaseme ; in both the 
Esquimaux, mesoseme. In the male Lapp the palato-maxillary index is brachyuranic, in 
the female mesuranic ; in the male Esquimaux this index is mesuranic and in the female 
dolichuranic. 
I have not sufficient material to enable me to make a satisfactory general statement of 
