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1,700 grammes a small percentage of the cases not at 

 all represented in the records for ordinary persons. 

 The whole group of eminent men is therefore moved 

 slightly upward in the scale of weight. 



Before offering any further comment on this table, I 

 shall present another in which the cranial capacities of 

 modern Parisians, murderers, and eminent men are 

 compared. The purpose of this table is similar to that 

 of the foregoing, and it differs from it only in requiring 

 the additional assumption that the brain-weights are 

 related in nearly the same manner as are the cranial 

 capacities. 



TABLE 28. SHOWING THE CRANIAL CAPACITIES OCCURRING 

 AMONG EMINENT MEN AND MURDERERS AS COMPARED 

 WITH THOSE IN T\VO GROUPS OF MODERN PARISIANS, ONE 

 MEASURED BY BROCA, THE OTHER BY MANOUVRIER. THE 

 CONSTRUCTION OF THE TABLE is SIMILAR TO THAT OF 

 TABLE 27. (Manouvrier.} 



CRANIAL CAPACITY. 



MODERN PARISIANS. ; MURDERERS. 



1 EMINENT 



In Cubic Centimeters. 70 (Broca). no(L.M.). 45 (L.M.). 35 (L.M.). 



Total loo'o 



Average capacity 1560 c.c. 



roo'o loo'o loo'o 



1560 c.c. ! 1571 c.c. 1665 c.c. 



From the examination of Table 27 it appears that 

 the greater brain-weights are more frequent among the 

 eminent men, even when these latter are compared 



