182 STUDY OF BRAINS OF SIX EMINENT SCIENTISTS AND SCHOLARS. 



21. Fallmerayer, Jakob Philip (1790-1861), German historian (Munich collec- 

 tion), died of an aneurism of the aorta. His stature was 165 ctm. The brain weighed 

 1,349 grams. The left subfrontal gyre was well developed, but on the whole is 

 smaller than the corresponding region in the brains of Melchior Meyr and Lichten- 

 stein with which Riidinger compared it. Bischoff: "Das Hirngewicht des Men- 

 schen," 1880, p. 136. Riidinger: Beitr. z. Anatornie des S2)rachcentrums, 1882. 



22. TiEDEMANN, Friedrich (1781-1861), German anatomist (Munich collection), 

 died of pneumonia and cerebral oedema. The autopsy was performed b}' Buhl and 

 Riidinger. His stature was 172 ctm. The brain weighed 1,254 grams. It was quite 

 cedematous and the atrophy of the convolutions was marked. The circumference of 

 the head was 54.5 ctm.; of the cranium, 53.1 ctm.; the scalp was very thin. Bischoff 

 estimates that age-atrophy reduced the brain-weight from about 1,422 grams at 

 maturity. Riidinger states that the subfrontal gyre is particularly well developed on 

 the right side, though large on the left as well. Bischoff: Sitzungsber. d. k. bayer. 

 Akad. d. Wissensch., 1864, I, p. 39, 51-53. Bischoff: "Das Hirngewicht des Menschen," 

 1880, pp. 136 and 139. Riidinger: Beitrag. z. Anatomic des Sprachcentmms, 1882, 

 p. 44. 



23. VON SiEBOLD, Eduard Kaspar .Jakob (1801-1861), German gynecologist. 

 Wagner examined the brain at the autopsy and states that it was richly fissured and 

 convoluted. A fissure divided the subfrontal gyre into two tiers ; it is not stated 

 whether the right or the left side is meant, or both. The preservation of the brain 

 was not permitted. R. Wagner: " Vorstudien, etc.," II, 1862, pp. 14 and 16. 



24. LoEDEL. Wagner also had the opportunity of examining the brain of the 

 talented etcher, whose fine engravings illustrate Wagner's first memoir of 1860. The 

 post-parietal region is described as particularly extensive, complex and prominent. 

 R. Wagner: "Vorstudien, etc.," II, 1862 (footnote, p. 32). 



25. Harless, Emil (1820-1862), physiologist (Munich icollection). The fresh 

 weight of this brain was not recorded. Bischoff, by adding 41 per cent, to the weight 

 of the specimen after preservation in alcohol for a number of years, estimates the 

 original weight at 1238 grams. According to Riidinger the subfrontal gyre is best 

 developed on the left side. Bischoff: " Das Hirngewicht des Menschen," 1880, p. 137. 

 Riidinger: Beitr. z. Anat. d. Sprachen, 1882, p. 44. 



26. Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863), English humorist. The 

 autopsy was probably performed by Dr. Elliotson. A contemporary newspaper report 

 states that the brain weighed 58^ ounces. " His medical attendants . . . add that he 

 had a very large brain, weighing no less than 58* ounces." London Times, December 

 25, 1863. Marshall: Journ. of Anat. and Physiol., 1892, Vol. XXVI, p. 445. 



