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27. Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865), American statesman (U. S. President). The 

 autopsy was performed at noon on April 15, 1865, at the White House. The physi- 

 cians present were the Surgeon-General Joseph K. Barnes, U. S. A., Assistant Surgeon- 

 General Charles H. Crane, U. S. A., Dr. Robert K. Stone, of Washington, Assistant-Sur- 

 geon J. J. Woodward, U. S. A., Assistant-Surgeon W. M. Notson, U. S. A., and Assist- 

 ant-Surgeon Edward Curtis. Drs. Woodward and Curtis opened the head with the 

 view of finding the track taken by the bullet in order to establish officially the facts 

 of death by homicide. Dr. Curtis writes that owing to the absence of suitable scales 

 he could not weigh the entire brain, but did so piecemeal. " The weighing of the 

 brain gave approximate results only since there had been some loss of brain substance 

 in consequence of the wound during life after the shooting." No official record was 

 made of the weight and to a recent inquiry addressed to Dr. Curtis he states that he 

 has utterly forgotten what the figure was. In a letter written a week after the autopsy 

 Dr. Curtis states that "the figures, such as they were, seemed to show that the brain- 

 weight was not above the ordinary for a man of Lincoln's size." 



28. De Morny, Charles Auguste Louis Joseph (1811-18(35), French statesman. 

 The brain-weight is stated as 53.6 ounces by Thurnam as being reported in the news- 

 papers "and confirmed by a distinguished anthropologist of Paris." (Brain-weight, 

 1520 grams.) Thurnam : Jour, of Mental Science, 1866. 



29. Whewell, William (1794-1866), English philosopher. Whewell died as the 

 result of an accident while riding a horse. " The brain weighed 49 ounces. It was 

 shrunken, the convolutions standing apart instead of being close together." (Brain- 

 weight, 1389 grams.) G. M. Humphrey: Lancet (London), March 17, 1866, II, p. 279. 



30. GooDSiR, John (1814-1867). The autopsy was conducted by Drs. Chiene and 

 Stirling. The brain weighed 57 i ounces (1629 grams). Goodsir's Anatomical 

 Memoirs, 1868, Vol. I, p. 195. 



31. Hermann, Friedrich Benedickt Wilhelm von (1795-1868), economist, 

 geometrician, statistician (Munich collection), is said to have been very tall. The 

 brain weighed 1590 grams. The left subfrontal gyre was superiorly developed, accord- 

 ing to Riidinger. BischofF: Das Hirngewicht des Menschen, 1880, p. 136. Riid- 

 inger : Beitrag. z. Anat. des Sprachcentrums, 1882, p. 44. 



32. Pfeufer, Karl von (1806-1869), German physician (Munich collection), 

 died of apoplexy. His stature was 170 ctm. The brain weighed 1488 grams. Riid- 

 inger emphasizes the large development of the left subfrontal gyre as compared with 

 the right. The convolutions in general are rather broad and simple. Bischoff: Das 

 Hirngewicht des Menschen, 1880. Riidinger: Beitrag. z. Anat. des Sprachcentrums, 

 1882, p. 44. 



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