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The right radius was longer than the left in the Sikh, the Chinese, the Manly Cove, Perth, 
and Swan Hill Australians, both Oahuans, the Bush, two Andaman Islanders, the female 
Lapp, the three Hindoos, the male Esquimaux, two Negros, and one Negress. The left 
radius was longer than the right in the Biverina, Eucla, and West Victoria Australians, 
the Otago skeleton, male Lapp, female Esquimaux, and one Negro. The two radii were of 
equal length in the Queensland and an Andaman skeleton. The difference between the 
two radii was usually 1, 2, or 3 mm., but in one Negro it was 6 mm.'; in another, viz., 
the one with the longest radius, it was 8 mm., and in the Otago skeleton 9 mm. 
The right ulna was longer than the left in the Sikh, Chinese, Manly Cove, Perth, Queens- 
land, and West Victoria Australians, one Oahuan, the Bushman, two Andaman Islanders, 
both Lapps, the male Esquimaux, the three Hindoos, a Negro, and a Negress. The left 
ulna was longer than the right in the Malay, Eucla Australian, Otago skeleton, female 
Esquimaux, a Negro, and a Negress. The bones were equal in length in the Swan Hill 
Australian, an Andaman Islander, and a Negro. The difference between the lengths of 
the two bones was usually not more than 1, 2, or 3 mm., but in the Chinese, Otago 
skeleton, and Bushman it rose to 6 mm. 
That differences existed in the relative lengths of the forearm and the upper arm in 
the races of men was pointed out by Charles White at the end of the last century in a 
comparative study of the Negro and the European, 1 in which he found that the forearm 
in the former was longer in proportion to the upper arm than in the latter. Prof. Humphry 
also recorded, in his treatise on the Human Skeleton, a similar observation. M. Broca 
subsequently made more extended inquiries into this subject, 2 and showed that if the 
humerus were regarded as equal in length to 100, the mean length of the radius in fifteen 
Negros was 79 A, and in nine Europeans 73‘9. I have, in estimating the proportionate 
length of the forearm to the ujrper arm in the same limb, in my series of skeletons, 
selected, when the bones were uninjured, the right limb, and have compared the maxi- 
mum length of the humerus with that of the radius, the styloid process being included. 3 
On the assumption that the length of the humerus was = 100, the proportionate 
length of the radius was obtained by the formula rac ^ a -l l en gfh the product is the 
humeral length 
radio-humeral or antebrachial index. 
To furnish a standard of comparison for these exotic skeletons, I shall in the first 
instance state the indices obtained by the measurements of the bones of the shaft of the 
upper limb in Europeans as recorded by Humphry, Broca, Hamy, Topinard and 
Flower. Prof. Humphry’s measurements of twenty-five skeletons gave a mean radio- 
1 An Account of the regular gradation in Man and in different Animals, &c., London, 1799. 
* Sur les proportions relatives du Bras de l’Avant-bras, &c., in Bull, de la Soc. d’Anthropologie, April 3, 1862, t. iii. 
5 In Table XIV., p. 109, 1 have given the maximum length both of humerus and radius in my series of skeletons, the 
dimensions in most cases having been taken from the right limb. 
