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If we include the non 
-adult and suppose 
the whole series 
female, we have : 
P:. 
Pii. 
M. 
El. 
142‘9 centims. 
136'7 centims. 
138'7 centims. 
134'8 centims. 
Without the non-adult. 
we have : 
Pi. 
Pii. 
M. 
El. 
145'9 centims. 
144'3 centims. 
145'3 centims. 
140‘9 centims. 
The two possible males give : 
Pi. 
Pii. 
M. 
El. 
144’2 centims. 
134"2 centims. 
136’5 centims. 
132’3 centims. 
The adult male gives : 
Pi. 
Pii. 
M. 
El. 
154"6 centims. 
154'5 centims. 
153‘9 centims. 
147'9 centims. 
The single male here is about identical with the means obtained by the different 
methods on p. 236 for the male Andamanese, and the adult females give a result 
somewhat less than that of the female Andamanese as reconstructed from their long 
bones, but in close accordance with Man’s measurements of living Andamanese 
stature. The dimensions are somewhat larger than those of Bushmen, or Akkas, or 
Negritos. We seem, therefore, justified in assuming a neolithic pygmy race in 
Europe having a stature about the same as that of the Andamanese. Whether the 
actual stature of this race was for the female nearer to 144 centims. (Pn) or 
141 centims. (FI) it seems to me impossible to ascertain definitely until we have 
more trustworthy and extensive measurements than yet exist of the living stature 
of extant pygmy races. 
(28.) Conclusion. 
The formulee and curves for the reconstruction of stature which are given in this 
memoir, must by no means be taken as final. No scientific investigation can be 
final; it merely represents the most probable conclusions which can be drawn from 
the data at the disposal of the writer. A wider range of facts, or aiore refined 
analysis, experiment, and observation wfill always lead to new formulm and ne^v 
theories. This is the essence of scientific progress. All, therefore, which is claimed 
for this paper is (i.) that it exhibits a better theory of the reconstruction of stature 
than any which has so far existed—it might not be too much to say that nothing 
which can be called a theory has hitherto existed; (ii.) that it determines the 
constants of the formulse given by that theory as well as the existing data allow of; 
(iii.) that it gives values for the probable statures of prehistoric races, which have 
far less divergence among themselves, whatever be the bone or combination of bones 
