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PROFESSOR KARL PEARSON, MATHExMATICAL 
(11.) Before we proceed to apply the formulae in Tables XIV. and XV. to the 
general reconstruction of stature, it is desirable to obtain some measure of confidence 
in the application of the formulae. We require to test them by finding what sort of 
results they give for a second race.^'" That race ought to be as widely divergent from 
the French as possible, but one in which the stature as weil as the measurement of 
the long bones is known. There are, I believe, no other measurements than those of 
Rollet, in which both the stature and long bones have been measured on the same 
individuals. A fairly complete series of measurements of the long bones of the Aino 
have, however, been made by Koganei, and he has also determined the mean living 
* There is very little detail for verification of our results even in the same race. M. Manocvriee 
gives the dimensions of seven men, six of whom were assassins (see p. 387 of loc. cit. in footnote, p. 171 
above). I have reconstructed the statures of these seven individuals from our ten formnlse with the 
following results :— 
Assassins. 
A.B. 
Name 
unknown. 
Math EL IN. 
Sellier. 
Kaps. 
Riviere, 
Gamahut. 
Alorto. 
Ijong hones:— 
F. 
50T2 
45-22 
44-52 
44-72 
42-72 
44*82 
39-52 
H. 
.35-4 
32-6 
31-9 
32-8 
30-5 
33-3 
29-8 
T. 
43-3 
36-4 
37-7 
35-3 
37-6 
36-3 
33-4 
R. 
27-6 
24-1 
24-4 
23-8 
24-7 
24-5 
22-1 
Stature:— 
(a) 
175-5 
166-3 
165-0 
165-4 
161-6 
165-6 
155-6 
(h) 
1731 
165-0 
163-6 
165-6 
158-9 
167-0 
156-9 
(<^) 
181-6 
165-2 
168-2 
162-5 
168-0 
164-9 
158-0 
(d) 
176-2 
164-8 
165-7 
163-8 
166-7 
166-1 
158-2 
(e) 
179-6 
165-9 
166-6 
164-0 
164-4 
165-3 
155-8 
if) 
179-3 
165-9 
166-5 
164-1 
164-2 
165-3 
155-7 
(9) 
175-9 
165-0 
164-3 
164-8 
162-4 
166-8 
156-6 
(h) 
17.3-2 
164-8 
162-9 
165-3 
159-1 
166-8 
156-6 1 
(0 
175-1 
165-7 
163-9 
165-5 
1.59-9 
166-4 
154-9 I 
(A) 
177-0 
165-6 
164-8 
164-8 
161-4 
166-2 
155-5 
Mean 
176-7 
165-4 
165-2 
164-6 
162-7 
166-0 
156-4 
Actual . 
180-0 
173-4 
171-7 
168-3 
165-2 
160-9 
156-6 
Difference . 
-3-3 
-8-0 
—6-5 
-3-7 
-2-5 
+ 5-1 
-0-2 
While the means of the whole series of forniulce agree very closely with the results of (k), they differ 
very markedly from the actual statures. I do not know under what conditions the long bones or the 
statui’es were measured. A suggestive hut somewhat hasty conclusion (failing more data) would he 
that the average assassin is tall (170 centims. against the general French population of 165 centims.), 
hut his limbs are relatively short, i.e., he is long of trunk. Anyhow, the divergence is noteworthy. 
