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to 85 per cent, of the femoral length. In the two negroid 
Grimaldi skeletons the tibial proportions are Sy'8 per cent, 
for the woman, 83-7 per cent, for the lad. They agree 
with the Cromagnon race. The same result is obtained 
when we inquire into the proportion which the forearm 
bears to the upper arm. In modern Europeans, the 
radius of the forearm is about 74 per cent, of the 
humeral or upper arm length ; in modern negroes, 
the proportion of the radius is 79 per cent. The 
same proportion holds true of the Cromagnon race and 
6i the so-called Grimaldi negroids ; the radius of the lad 
is 79 per cent., that of the woman 85 per cent, of the 
length of the humerus. The stature of the negroid 
woman is not low — i'S9S ^- (S ^^^^ ^f inches) ; the lad 
of sixteen measures 1-560 m. (5 feet i^ inches). If he 
had lived, he might have added 6 or 8 inches to his 
stature. On the palate of the Cromagnon people there 
is usually a bony elevation — the lorus palatinus — often 
seen on the palate of primitive negroid races. The torus 
is present in the Grimaldi negroids. The woman and 
the lad share the ample brain capacity of the Cromagnon 
race. The capacity of the woman is estimated by Dr 
Verneau to have been 1375 c.c, that of the boy 1580 c.c. 
— both above the modern average. Those Aurignacians 
had large brains. 1 am of the opinion that it is a 
mistake to separate those two Grimaldi individuals, the 
mother and son, as types of a new race — a negroid race 
indigenous to Europe. To me these characters suggest 
that they are only an aberrant Cromagnon form, perhaps 
primitive, but nevertheless true members of the Cro- 
magnon race. That race, in the proportion of its limbs 
and in certain features of the face, does show negroid 
traits. If I had to seek for the people which most nearly 
represent the Cromagnon blood in the modern world, I 
would seek them amongst the tall races of the Punjaub 
of India. 
When one of the skulls of the Grimaldi negroids is 
fitted within the standard frame, which we have applied 
to Neolithic skulls, the fit is seen to be a good one (see 
