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PROFESSOR KARL PEARSON, MATHEMATICAL 
The second mean estimate for females is determined by neglecting the single tibia 
measurement, and is probably the best obtainable; it agrees closely with [i.) : 
Sexual Ratio (5/$ = 1’082. 
A series of 12 femora dug up in Boulogne Harbour'"' have also been attributed to 
the Romano-Gauls. They give male F = 45’22 centims., or for the stature 166'32. 
]\[y estimate here is about a centimetre larger than Rahon’s. We sensibly agree 
for the males in the larger series above, while for the females I should take the most 
probable stature to be a centimetre less than that (153'5) given by Rahon. 
We cannot compare the Ptomano-British with the Romano-Gauls on the basis of 
all bones, for we have only the results for the femur in the former case. But if we 
compare the femur estimates for the two cases we see that they are sensibly the 
same (male 166’9 against 166‘7, and female 152'3 against 152'2). It is, therefore, 
probable that the estimate of the Romano-British male is sensibly too high, and that 
it would have been nearer 165 centims. had we had other bones than femora to base 
our estimates upon. The sexual ratio is clearly abnormally high. 
(d.) Row-Grave Population of South Germany. 
Dr. R. Lehmann Nitsche has published a most interesting series of measurements 
on the long bones found in the Row=graves of Bavaria.t These interments date from 
the beginning of the 5 th to the end of the 7th century'. He divides his material 
into two groups, “Bajuvars,” from the Row-graves of Allach in Upper Bavaria,^ 
and Suabians and Alemanns from those of Dillingen, Gundelfingen, Schwetzheim, 
Memmingen and Fischen.§ The mean lengths of the long bones for these two groups 
are, however, in such complete accordance, that we are quite justified in following 
Dr. Nitsche and combining the two groups. j| We have then the following results 
after the proper change in the femur :— 
F. 
T. 
H. 
R. 
Male. 
(41) 
46-99 
(25) 
38-05 
(17) 
.33-71 
(11) 
25-41 
Female. 
(16) 
41-07 
(7) 
33-71 
(9) 
30-28 
(4) 
23-10 
The following table gives the reconstructed stature on the basis of the ten 
formulae of Tables XIV. and XV. :— 
* Loc cit., p. 439. 
t “Nene Beitriige zur pliysisclien Antliropologie der Bayera,” vol. 11, pp. 205-296, Miinclien, 1S95. 
+ Ihul, p. 207. 
§ Ihid., p. 239. 
II pp. 260, et seq. 
