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HORX EXPEDITION-ANTHROPOLOGY. 
The body of the last dorsal vertebra was ankylosed to the first lumbar; the 
remaining lumbar vertebral were deformed by craggy outgrowths froiu the margins 
of their bodies, and the first piece of the coccyx was ankylosed to the last sacral 
vertebra. A depressed fracture about one inch from the sternal end of left clavicle 
was probably the cause of an irritative overgrowth of bone from the left side of 
the manubrium sterni. 
A flattening of the left side of the thorax was due to multiple fractures in 
front of the angle in several of the central ribs (4th to 8th). The blades of the 
scapuhe were narrower from side to side than in the European, and the axillary 
border much more concave. The area of origin of the teres major was very 
prominent. The small bones of the distal segments of the limbs do not admit of 
any positive observations. 
Measurements of the Hones of the Skeleton. 
I supplement the craniological and osteological reports of Professors Wilson 
and Watson by tables showing the measurements of the principal remaining bones 
of the skeleton to which the Alice Springs skull No. 1 belongs. In this the 
methods adopted by Sir William Turner have been adopted throughout.* 
The presence of disease in several of the bones renders the skeleton to a 
certain extent abnormal, but not so far as to affect those dimensions which have 
been given. 
The interest in the figures chiefly depends upon the fact that this is, so far as 
I am aware, the only aboriginal skeleton that has been received from Central 
Australia; but as it thus forms an isolated and, to a certain extent, an 
abnormal example, it would be scarcely profitable to discuss their significance 
at any length. 
I will merely observe that, in all important respects, the various indices would 
cause the bones to which they refer to be placed in the same groups as those to 
which the Australians are assigned by Turner. This is so in respect of the great 
length of the leg segment (dolichocnemic), medium length of radius (mesatikerkic), 
high pelvic or brim index (dolichopellic), long narrow sacrum (dolichohieric), and 
the apparently anterior concavity of the lumbar curve (koilorachic). So also the 
intermembral index, expressing the ratio of the length of the humerus f radius 
Report on the scientilic results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger; Bones of the Human Skeleton, Sir 
Wm. Turner, vol. xvi. 
