[161] Should there be a decided notch in the middle, as happens in rare
specimens, it is rational to take the measurement to the side of the
notch.
[162] From my Phys. Anthr. of the Lenape, etc., the Anthropology of
Florida, and the Catalogue of Crania.
[163] Approximately.
[164] Rudolf Virchow, as far back as 1870, in studying some mandibles
of the Greenland Eskimo, found that the height of the body in the
middle (3.5 centimeters) was greater than that of the lower jaws of
any other racial group available to him for comparison. Archiv. für
Anthrop., IV, p. 77, Braunschweig, 1870.