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Egyptian mummies. 
Now we find, on comparing the principal of these dimen- 
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sions, with those of the Venus de Medicis, as given by Win- 
KELMAN, Camper, and others, that the difference between 
them is so slight, as not to deserve notice. Our mummy is 
that of a person rather taller. The celebrated Medicean sta- 
tue, which stands as the representative of a perfect beauty, 
is five feet in height, like our mummy, and the relative ad- 
measurements of the arm, fore- arm, and hand in each, are 
precisely similar. . 
But in a female skeleton, it is the pelvis that presents tlie 
most striking difference in different races. Nothing, for 
instance, can be farther removed from the symmetrical form, 
and from the dimensions of the pelvis in the Caucasian or 
European race, than the same part in the Negro or Ethi- 
opian race. Of this fact, I shall be able to convince such of 
the Fellows of this Society, as arp not conversant in these 
matters, by exhibiting the most perfect pelvis of a well grown 
Negro girl, which I prepared some years ago, in contrast 
with that of our mummy, which I likewise carefully dissected, 
and caused to be represented by the same accurate artist 
in Plate XX. When subjected to this comparative test, 
the pelvis of our female mummy will be found to come 
nearer to the beau ideal of the Caucasian structure, than. does 
that of women of Europe in general, and to equal in depth, 
amplitude, and rotundity of outlines, the Circassian form. 
In illustration of this remark, I made the following mea- 
surements. 
Greatest distance or width of the pelvis from the 
highest point of the ridge of the ilium on one side, in. 
to that of the other side . - - - - ii./® 
