194 STUDY OF BRAms OF SIX EMINENT SCIENTISTS AND SCHOLARS. 



II, the "mad king," committed suicide on June 13, 1886. The autopsy was per- 

 formed in Munich on June 15 by Rildinger, in the presence of Prof Grashey and Drs. 

 Kerschensteiner, Halm, Hubrich and Riickert. His stature was 191 cm. The brain 

 weighed 1349 grams. W. W. Ireland: Jour, of Mental Science, October, 1886, p. 345. 



75. Olney, Edward (1827-1887), American mathematician. Professor of math- 

 ematics at the University of Michigan, 1863-1887. His stature was about 5 feet, 8 

 inches ; his body-weight about 180 pounds. His brain was removed by Prof W. J. 

 Herdman, of the same university, and weighed 1,701 grams. Cf PUla. Med. Register, 

 April 27, 1887, p. 337. 



76. RiEBECK. In Amnion's hst is merely given the name "Riebeck" described 

 as " Industr." Possibly Job. Karl. Otto Ribbeck, a German philologist and critic 

 (1827-1888) is meant. The brain-weight is given as 1,580 grams. Ammon : "Die 

 natiirliche Auslese bei den Menschen," 1893. 



77. ViiRON Eugene (182-5-1889), French philosophical writer, critic and Jour- 

 nalist (Paris collection). Veron's brain belongs to the class of superiorly developed 

 ones. The weight of the brain was unfortunately not ascertained ; nor is the cranial 

 capacity known, since the skull was not preserved. By means of a stiff hat worn by 

 Veron, Manouvrier found the antero-posterior diameter to be 194 mm., the transverse 

 diameter, 162 mm. (cephalic index, 83). These figures are well above the average as 

 comparisons with 71 physicians and with 280 soldiers of about the same age show. 

 Manouvrier gives exhaustive measurements of the preserved brain. The right super- 

 frontal gyre is doubled for a large part of its extent. The left subfrontal gyre is 

 well developed. Some of the peculiarities in the fissural pattern which Manouvrier 

 emphasizes are: The left postcentral communicates with the sylvian cleft deeply; also 

 with the parietal and by means of this with the occipital. Finally the calcarine 

 fissure is prolonged to the "fente de Bichat" (hippocampal fissure). On the right 

 side the postcentral also communicates with the sylvian cleft, but the parietal does not 

 run into the occipital. On both sides the paroccipital gyres are deeply situated. There 

 is an odd " fronto-limbic " formation. Manouvrier: Etude sur le cerveau d'Eugene 

 V6ron. Ball, de la soc. d'anthrop. de Paris, 1892, pp. 238-279. Manouvrier: ibid., 

 pp. 505-529. 



78. Rice, A. Thorndyk (1853-1889), American diplomat and journalist. Editor 

 of the North American Revieiv and Minister Plenipotentiary to Russia. The autopsy 

 was performed on May 17, 1889, by Drs. E. L. Keyes, E. G. Janeway, E. E. Dunham, 

 H. Goldthwaite, E. Fuller and C. H. Chetwood. Mr. Rice died at the age of 35. 

 The brain weighed fifty ounces (1418 grams). N. Y. World, May 18, 1889, p. 4. 



79. NussBAUM (1829-1890), German surgeon. Brain-weight, 1410 grams. 

 Daff'ner : "Das Wachsthum des Menschen," 1902, p. 275. 



