Following in the footsteps of the identified osteological collections at Schoten and Châtelet (Belgium's Royal Institute of
Natural Sciences), we have - albeit in a much more modest fashion - created a collection within our Forensic Medicine and Forensic
Anthropology Unit, bringing together over a hundred femurs and tibias (as well as a few fibulas) from the body bequest service. These
pieces have been carefully processed by this service and then labelled and catalogued in our department. 
This collection is particularly useful for studying and comparing new osteological and anthropological parameters in a recent
twentieth-century population. Pathology can also be observed, and in particular certain very advanced aspects of gonarthrosis in
people of advanced age, as well as osteosynthesis material (total hip and knee prostheses, fracture treatments, etc.). 
The collection can also be used by students of both medicine and physical anthropology, enabling them to carry out some
extremely interesting work, given that such osteological series of known age and sex (as well as certain biometric variables such as
height and weight for certain individuals) are relatively rare. A number of master's theses and scientific studies have been carried
out on this recent collection, notably by students from the universities of Amsterdam and Marseille.