178 STUDY OF BRAINS OF SIX EMINENT SCIENTISTS AND SCHOLARS. 



London Medical Gazette, Sept. 13, 1828, page 478. Topinard, Elements d'Anthropologie 

 generale, 1885, p. 628. 



3. CuviER, George Leopold Chretien Frederic Dagobert (1769-1832), Natural- 

 ist (of German descent), was really a native of Wuerttemberg and his parents belonged to 

 the Germanic, not the Celtic race. The autopsy took place on May 15, 1832, and the 

 following physicians were present : Orfila, Dumesnil, Dupuytren, AUard, Biett, Valen- 

 ciennes, Laurillard, Rousseau, Andralueven and Berard. Two reports were published ; 

 one by Berard and one by Rousseau. Unfortunately there is a discrepancy between 

 these reports relative to the brain-weight, Rousseau's figure being one ounce higher 

 than Berard's, which, in the metric system, is equivalent to 1830 grams. The cere- 

 bellum weighed 191.4 grams. Rousseau gives certain measurements of the head 

 which are worth while recording here. 



Max. circumference of head 60.45 ctm. 



Arc from glabella to inion 39.09 



Arc over vertex from ear to ear (meatus audit.) . . . 40.60 



The post-mortem report makes no mention of the finding of evidences of hydro- 

 cephalus and B6rard says that he never before saw a brain so complexly convolute 

 and with so many deep fissures. Berard : Gazette medicale, May 19, 1832. E. Rous- 

 seau: Lanceffe frangaise, May 26, 1832. Topinard: Memoires de la sociU^ d' anthropologie 

 de Paris, 1883, p. 15. G. Herve : Le cerveau de Cuvier. Bull, de la societe d'anthro- 

 pologie de Paris, 1883, pp. 738-748. Karl E. von Baer: " Lebensgeschichte Cuvier's." 

 Arch. f. Anthrop., XXIV, 1896, pp. 227-275. 



4. Dupuytren (1777-1835), French surgeon and anatomist. The autopsy was 

 performed on February 9, 1835, thirty-two hours after death. The official report is 

 signed by Doctors Broussais, Cruveilhier, Husson and Bouillaud. The brain-weight 

 (French system) was 2 livres, 14 ounces (1,437 grams). The brain was normal. 

 Gazette des Hopitaux, civils et militaires; 1835, IX, No. 20, p. 77. R. Wagner: "Vor- 

 studien, etc.," I, 1860, p. 96. 



5. Dollinger, Ignaz (1770-1841), German anatomist and physiologist (Munich 

 collection). The fresh weight was not recorded, but Bischoff estimates the loss in 

 weight during immersion in alcohol to have been 41 per cent. The subfrontal gyre 

 was well developed and the parieto-occipital region was largely expanded and com- 

 plex. Estimated brain-weight 1,207 grams. Bischott : Das Hirngewicht des Men- 

 schen, p. 137. Riidinger : Bcttr. z. Anatomie des Spraclicentrums (1882). Riidinger : 

 Beitr. z. Anatomie der Affenspalte, 1 882. 



6. Abercrombie, John (1780-1844), Scottish physician. The autopsy was con- 



