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PROFESSOR KARL PEARSOK, MATHEMATICAL 
The following table, here given in centimetres, is taken from Humphry’s work.* 
Table XVIII.—Stature and Long Bones of Anthropomorphous Apes. 
No. 
Stature. 
Femur. 
' Humerus. 
Tibia. 
Radius. 
Chimpanze 
4 
127 
31-52 
31-01 
25-40 
27-90 
Orang . 
2 
112 
26-92 
35-60 
23-41 
35-60 
Gorilla . 
i 
147 
35-33 
42-12 
28-70 
32-79 
The sexes are not stated, and the results are all mean results for the numbers 
given. The stature is probably exaggerated rather than understated, and must 
have been difficult to estimate. It might seem at first sight idle to apply the 
stature reconstruction formulm for man, to such data, but as we shall soon see it is a 
question of coming within 10 or 20 centims. of the true values in all but a few cases. 
I have calculated the following table from the reconstruction formulae for both sexes 
in man :— 
Table XIX.—Reconstructed Stature of Anthropomorphous Apes. 
Formula. 
Chimpanze. 
Orang. 
Gorilla. 
(a) Male . 
141 
+ 14 
132 
+ 20 
148 
+ 1 
(b) „ . 
160 
+ 33 
174 
+ 62 
193 
+ 46 
(c) 
139 
+ 1-2 
134 
+ 22 
147 
0 
( d ) „ . 
177 
+ 50 
203 
+ 91 
193 
+ 46 
te) » 
137 
+ 10 
130 
+ 18 
145 
— 2 
if ) „ • 
137 
+ 10 
130 
+ 18 
146 
- 1 
( 9 ) 
169 
+ 42 
190 
+ 78 
196 
+ 49 
(/O • 
161 
+ 34 
175 
+ 63 
193 
+ 46 
(i) 
149 
+ 22 
152 
+ 40 
170 
+ 23 
(A-) „ . 
144 . 
+ 17 
143 
+ 31 
162 
+ 15 
Observed . 
127 
0 
112 
0 
147 
0 
( a ) Female 
134 
+ 7 
125 
+ 13 
142 
- 5 
w „ 
157 
+ 30 
169 
+ 57 
188 
+ 41 
(c) „ 
135 
+ 8 
130 
+ 18 
142 
— 5 
( d ) „ 
174 
+ 47 
200 
+ 88 
191 
+ 44 
(e) 
133 
+ 6 
126 
+ 14 
141 
- 6 
(/) „ 
133 
+ 6 
126 
+ 14 
141 
- 6 
(S') 
166 
+ 39 
186 
+ 74 
192 
“}■ 45 
W „ 
158 
+ 31 
172 
+ 60 
189 
+ 42 
(i) „ 
141 
+ 14 
140 
+ 28 
158 
+ 11 
(^■) „ 
134 
+ 7 
127 
+ 15 
148 
+ 1 
* ‘A Treatise on the Human Skeleton,’ Cambridge, 1851, p. 106. It is, perhaps, needless to remai’k 
that the gibbon gives stature results quite incomparable vith those for man. 
