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PEOFESSOR KARL PEARSOE, ]\IATHEMATICAL 
(26.) Andamanese Stature. 
The stature of the Andamanese is a peculiarly difficult one to estimate. They are 
taller than Bushmen and Akkas, and fall more markedl}^ into the unstable range of 
our chart curves. The measurements of a very considerable number of long bones 
have been given by Sir W. H. Flowek, in two papers in the ‘ Journal of the 
Anthropological Institute,’ vol. 9, 1879, and vol. 14, 1885. I take the following 
mean values from the latter paper (p. 116) :— 
Ro. 
F. 
H. 
T. 
R. 
Male . . . 
2.5 
39-34 
27-65 
33-21 
22 52 
Female 
26 
38-04 
26-35 
32-10 
21-01 
Constructing as in the previous cases a table of stature as estimated by all four 
methods we find :— 
Bone. 
Male. 
Female. 
Letter. 
P.- 
P... 1 
M. FI. 
Pi- 
Pn. 
M. 
FI. 
(«) 
155-3 
154 
152-2 145-8 
146-8 
148-8 
145-2 
141-8 
(C 
150-7 
144 
144-2 139-9 
144-0 
1.38-1 
141-6 
136-7 
(c) 
157-6 
157 
1.58-4 , 150-8 
150-3 
151-7 
153-7 
148-3 
{d) 
1.59-6 
160 
1.59-5 1.53-7 
151-5 
154-3 
155-8 
150-4 
(e) 
155-4 
■ • • • 
148-1 
, , 
, , 
(/) 
1.55-3 
* . « • 
148-2 
i % 
ig) 
153-6 
• . • • 
147-0 
, , 
(70 
150-7 
• • • • 
144-5 
(t) 
152-0 
• • • • 
145-4 
(C 
152-6 
, 
146-1 
Mean 
154-3 
153-7 
1.53 6 147-6 
1 
147-2 
148-2 
1 
149-1 
144-3 
Now it will be observed that Pi, Pn, and M give sensibly the same result : 154 
centims. for the male ; that for the female, Pn, owing to our having first to increase 
the female bones to reduce them to male lengths, gives a higher result than P^ for 
we have got into the unstable range of the curves, and the stature-reducing factor 
afterwards applied does not undo the excess. Thei’e is not much, therefore, to choose 
between Pi, Pn, and M for the Andamanese. They give results 4 centims. greater 
