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Donitz, 1 from the study of seven female Japanese pelves, came to the conclusion that 
two different types were to be found in them, the one with a round or heart-shaped inlet, 
the other with a transversely oval or wide brim. Those with a round or heart-shaped 
inlet Wernich regarded as belonging to the Malayan race, whilst those with a wide brim, 
approximating to the Europeans, he held to be a product of a cross between the Ainos, 
the original inhabitants, and the Malays. If the conjugate diameter be regarded as 
equal to 100, the wide-brimmed pelves have a transverse diameter equal to 125, whilst 
in Europeans the corresponding diameter is equal to 127, but the pelves with a round or 
heart-shaped brim have a transverse diameter equal only to 107. Scheube 2 has measured 
a male Aino pelvis and has given the transverse diameter of the brim as 113 mm. and 
the conjugate as 115 mm., wdiich give a brim index 102. Barnard Davis’s measurements 
of the pelvis of an Ai'no woman w T ere, transverse diameter 102 mm., conjugate diameter 
117 mm., pelvic index 97. In the single specimen of each sex the brim index was 
above 95, so that it is possible that the Amos are dolichopellic. If these measurements 
of the Aino pelvis are to be regarded as expressing the character of the race, it is 
difficult to see how a people with apparently dolichopellic proportions, by crossing with 
a race in which the conjugate diameter is also proportionately great, could produce a 
pelvis with a wide inlet. 
The male Malayan pelvis recorded in my Table V. had an inlet which was ovoid in 
the antero-posterior diameter, and the brim index, 105, showed it to be highly dolicho- 
pellic. In von Franque’s female Malay the transverse diameter was 126 mm., the 
conjugate 116 mm., and the brim index 92 ; the form of the inlet as in my specimen was 
antero-posteriorly oval. A female Kubu from Sumatra, probably of the Malay race, 
measured by J. G. Garson, had the brim 117 mm. in transverse diameter, and 122 mm. 
in the conjugate, with a brim index therefore 104 ’3, so that it was greatly elongated 
antero-posteriorly. The two male Javan pelves measured by Barnard Davis are, however, 
stated to have had a pelvic index of 83 and 81 respectively, i.e., they were platypellic. 
In a female Javan pelvis measured by Yerneau this index was 90. Zaaijer, from his 
analysis of the pelvic measurements of twenty-six Java women, stated that the form of 
the inlet was not uniform, in sixteen it was round, the transverse diameter being to the 
conjugate as 100 to 90 or under; in ten it was longish-oval, the transverse diameter 
being as 100 to more than 90. H. Fritsch has measured five female Malay pelves, and 
has described the pelvic inlet as round, with a relative predominance of the conjugate 
diameter. C. Martin has described the conjugate diameter as very long, the inlet round, 
in many examples oval. From the series of female Malay pelves described by Zaaijer, 
H. Fritsch, and himself, C. Martin has obtained a mean transverse diameter of 119 mm. 
1 Quoted by Ploss in Archiv f. Anthropologie, Bd. xv. p. 266, 1884, and by Wernicb in Archiv f. Gynakologie, 
Bd. xii. p. 293, 1877. 
2 Also quoted by Ploss. 
