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then they would correspond in the form and proportions of the pelvic brim with the 
Negros rather than with the Australians, Bush race, Hottentots, Kaffirs, and Andaman 
Islanders, all of whom are distinctly dolichopellic. We may, however, look for much 
additional light on this matter when the observations which I understand Dr. Proch- 
ownick of Hamburg is making on the large series of pelves from the Pacific Islands 
in the Godeffroy Museum have been published. 
In addition to the specimens of the pelves of the Guanche people recorded in my 
Table VI., M. Verneau has described the characters of a male and a female pelvis. Of the 
female he says that the inlet was very sensibly elongated antero-posteriorly, but on the 
contrary its transverse diameter was slightly diminished. With the exception of the 
inlet it differed very little from a European woman. The transverse diameter of the brim 
was 132 mm., the conjugate 120 mm., and the brim index was 91. In his male as in the 
female the transverse diameter of the brim only exceeded the antero-posterior by a few 
millimetres, and the brim index was also 91. In my perfect male pelvis the transverse 
diameter considerably exceeded the antero-posterior, the brim index was 85 and the form of 
the inlet approximated to the oval. The mean of the two males was 88, but the specimens 
are too few to enable one to state definitely to which of my three divisions of the pelvis 
this race should be referred, but in all probability it is either platypellic or mesatipellic. 
The dimensions of the brim in an Esquimaux pelvis have been recorded by Dr. 
Struthers in a female specimen. He gives the conjugate diameter as (4f inches) 117 mm. 
and the transverse as (6 inches) 153 mm., which furnish a brim index of 76, and show 
a pelvis which must have had a markedly transversely oval inlet. M. Verneau records 
the transverse diameter of the brim in his male pelvis as 124 mm., but it was too much 
damaged to enable him to obtain the conjugate dimension. In my two sj>ecimens 
(Table VII.) the brim index, 88 in the male and 84 in the female, closely corresponded 
to the mean index in Europeans of both sexes. It is probable that the Esquimaux 
therefore belong to the platypellic (platylekanic) group. 
The two male Laplanders whose pelvic measurements are recorded by M. Verneau 
had a mean transverse diameter, 122 mm. and a mean conjugate diameter, 101, so that 
the brim index was 83. In my male specimen the transverse diameter was much smaller, 
both absolutely and relatively to the conjugate, and the brim index was 93. In my 
female, again, the transverse diameter of the brim was considerably in excess of the con- 
jugate, and the pelvic index was only 7 2 '5. The mean brim index of the three males w T as 
88, and it is not unlikely that the male Lapp pelvis may, when additional observations 
are recorded, be found to be in the higher term of the platypellic group. 
The Hindoo pelves recorded in Table V. had a brim index of 89 in the male and 93 
in the female. A third Hindoo skeleton, that of a male, 1 which has been presented to 
1 This man was a Hindoo by religion, and believed to he a native ol Bengal. In stature, as will be seen on p. 104, 
he was above the average height. See also remarks on p. 118. 
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