STUDY OF BRAINS OF SIX EMINENT SCIENTISTS AND SCHOLARS. 193 



de la Faculte de Medecine et Chirurgien des Hopitaux de Paris et du Docteur Maguin 

 de Bougival (Septembre, 1883), Paris, pp. 21, 5 figs. Topinard : " Elements d'An- 

 thropologie Generals." 



69. CouDEREAU, AuGUSTE (1832-1882), French physician (Paris collection). The 

 autopsy was conducted by Prof. Laborde, assisted by Drs. Duval, Chudzinski and 

 Herv'e. Just after removal the brain weighed 1390 grams. Half an hour later it 

 weighed 1378 grams. The cerebrum weighed 1183 grams, the cerebellum, 195 (?) 

 grams. The cranium was plagiocephalic. The most notable feature in the cerebrum 

 is the peculiar ramification of the occipital fissure on the meson of the left hemicere- 

 brum. The arrangement is apparently due to the confluence of both the cuneal and 

 adoccipital fissures with the occipital. Duval, Chudzinski and Herve : Bull, de la 

 soc. (Vanthrop. de Paris, 1883, p. 377. 



70. Siemens, Werner von (1816-1884), Gei-man physicist. The brain is said to 

 have been very oedematous and is cited by Hansemann as having weighed 1600 grams. 

 D. Hansemann : Ztschr. f. Psijch. u. Physiol, d. Sinnesorgane, 1899, 1. 



71. Smetana, Friedrich (1824-1884), Bohemian composer, was a man of small, 

 delicate frame. His death occurred in the course of a paralytic dementia which set 

 in late in life. Owing to this disease the brain showed numerous lesions ; atrophy of 

 the convolutions, dilatation of the ventricles, atrophy of the auditory nerves (Smetana 

 became deaf in his latter years), and other pathological signs. The brain weighed 

 only 1250 grams ; but, as Hlava remarks, this figure is comparatively high when the 

 marked degree of atrophy is considered. The skull-length was 17 cm., skull-width, 14 

 cm. ; thickness about 1.5 cm. J. Hlava : "Zprdva o pitve mistra Bedricha Smetany," 

 Czas. lek. czes., XXIII, 1884, p. 323. Matiegka : " Ueber das Hirngewicht des Men- 

 schen," 1902, p. 38. 



72. Lasker, Eduard F. (1829-1884), German jurist and politician, died in New 

 York on January 5, 1884. Drs. A. Jacobi and W. H. Welch conducted the autopsy. 

 The brain was found to show spots of softening and general arterio-sclerosis. A note 

 concerning the weight of the brain was subsequently destroyed by fire, but it is cited 

 by Lombroso as being 1300 grams. Lombroso's authority for this figure is incorrectly 

 quoted and cannot be verified. 



73. Senzel (or Seizel?), French sculptor. The autopsy on Senzel was performed 

 by Chudzinski and Herve. The brain weighed 1312 grams. Senzel was a talented 

 artist but not particularly eminent intellectually. Manouvrier : " La Quantite dans 

 I'Encephale," p. 280. INIanouvrier : In Richet's " Dictionnaire de Physiologic," 1897- 

 1898, p. 688. 



74. LuDwiG II (of Bavaria) (1845-1886), German (Bavarian) Sovereign. Ludwig 



