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Kaffirs measured by G. Fritsch the tibio-femoral index ranged from 80 to 83, the mean 
being 81 '5. In a Hottentot woman he obtained an index of 79, and from Wyman’s 
measurements of a male Hottentot I have calculated an index of 87. 
The mean tibio-femoral index of my three Negros was 85 ’9, and the range of varia- 
tion was from 82 to 8 8 "7 ; the mean of my two Negresses was 81'5. From Professor 
Humphry’s measurements of twenty-five Negros (sex not stated) I have calculated an 
index of 8P7. Two Negros in the Blumenbach collection, measured by Spengel, had the 
indices 8 5 '5 and 82 4 2 respectively, and the Balumba Negro from the Gaboon measured 
by Barnard Davis had an index of 85. In M. Topinard’s table the mean index of thirty- 
two Negros is 82‘9, and of ten Negresses 8P4. 
The mean index of four Andaman Islanders which I have measured 1 was 81 '2, the 
extremes being 79 and 83. In the much more numerous series of skeletons examined 
by Professor Flower an index of 84*4, being exactly the same in both sexes, was 
obtained by his method of measurement. 
In a male Negrito measured by Virchow, 2 the tibio-femoral index was 87, but it 
should be stated that the superior spine was included in the length of the tibia. 
In one of the female Negrito skeletons measured by Meyer and Tungel,the tibio-femoral 
index was 7 4’7, in the other 88 ; in M. Hamy’s specimen it was 86 (the malleolus being 
included). The mean tibio-femoral index of these four Negrito skeletons was 83‘9. 
In my three Hindoos the tibio-femoral index was practically the same in each 
skeleton, 83 ; M. Topinard has given 8 3 '9 as the mean index of three female Hindoos, 
and 82 - 8 as the mean index of four “ Noirs de l’lnde.” The index in my male Sikh was 
78 '8 ; in Barnard Davis’s skeleton it was 77, and in his Bhutea it was 78. 
In my Chinese skeleton this index was 76 - 7 ; in the Chinaman measured by Meyer 
and Tiingel it was 80 ; in five male Chinese recorded by M. Topinard the mean index 
was 80 '2 ; whilst Spengel’s measurement of the male skeleton in the Blumenbach collection 
gave an index of 8 2 ‘3. In six Tartars in M. Topinard’s table the mean tibio-femoral index 
was 79 ‘6. 
The tibio-femoral index of my male Malay was 80’7 ; in two male Javanese measured 
by Barnard Davis this index was 80 and 87 respectively; in a female Javanese in M. 
Topinard’s table it was 8 5 ‘2 ; the index of the Banda Islander’s skeleton, according to 
Keferstein’s method, was 83, and according to Spengel’s, 85 ; the index in Garson’s 
Kubu skeleton -was 80’7. The Aino skeleton measured by Barnard Davis was 76*8. 
In my male Esquimaux the index was 85, and in the female 79 '8 ; but in the male 
measured by M. Topinard it was 78 '7 ; in his male Samoyed this index was 7 9 '8. In 
my male Lapp the tibio-femoral index was only 73 '8, and in the female 78. 
In the aborigines of America, Barnard Davis has obtained a tibio-femoral index of 
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1 These include a specimen not in Table XIII., in which the right femur was perfect, but the left was broken. 
2 Verhandl. der Berlin. Ges. f. Anth. in Zeitsch. f. Ethn., Bd. iv. s. 208, 1872. 
