STUDY OF BRAINS OF SIX EMINENT SCIENTISTS AND SCHOLARS. 195 



80. Ferris, B. G. (1802-1891), American jurist (Cornell collection). A promi- 

 nent lawyer, district attorney, president of the public library and Secretary for the 

 Territory of Utah. Author of "Utah and the Mormons" (1854), and "A New 

 Theory of the Origin of Species." The brain is in the collection of Cornell University 

 (No. 2870) and weighed 1225 grams. 



81. BucHNER, Hans (1850-1892). "Das stark oedematose Gehirn des Hygien- 

 ikers Hans Biichner" weighed 1560 grams. DafFner : " Das Wachsthum des Men- 

 schen," 1902, p. 275. 



82. Grant, R. E., English mathematician. Brain-weight, 45i ounces (1290 

 grams). Marshall : Jour, of AnaL and Physiol, XXVIII, 1892, p. 30. 



83. Brown, George, Canadian editor. Editor of the Toronto Globe. He was 

 over six feet tall. His brain is said to have weighed 56.3 ounces (1596 grams). "The 

 Lost Atlantis and other Ethnographic Studies" (Edinburgh), 1892, p. 376. 



84. Harrison, R. A., Canadian jurist. Chief Justice of Canada. His brain 

 weighed 56 ounces (1590 grams). "The Lost Atlantis and other ethnographic 

 Studies" (Edinburgh), 1892, p. 376. 



85. Butler, Ben,iamin F. (1818-1892), American soldier, lawyer and statesman. 

 "The brain is said to have weighed sixty-two ounces" (1758 grams). Medical Record, 

 Feb. 11, 1893, p. 186. 



86. Curtice, Hosea (1825-1893), American mathematician and educator (Cornell 

 collection). Professor Wilder reports its weight to have been 1612 grams. The cere- 

 brum is large and richly fissured. 



87. Whitman, Walt, American poet. The weight of Walt Whitman's brain is 

 variously given as 45.2 ounces (1282 grams) and 43.3 ounces (1228 grams). His 

 stature was 6 feet and in health he weighed about 200 pounds. The brain had been 

 preserved but some careless attendant in the laboratory let the jar fall to the ground ; 

 it is not stated whether the brain was totally destroyed by the fall, but it is a great 

 pity that not even the fragments of the brain were rescued. " In re Walt Whitman " 

 (Philadelphia), 1893. C. K. Mills : Textbook of Nervous and Mental Diseases." 



88. Mallery, Garrick (1831-1894), American ethnologist and soldier. Gradu- 

 ate of Yale University, served in the Civil War with distinction, was admitted to the 

 Bar and later became celebrated for his studies in ethnology. His brain was removed 

 and weighed by Dr. D. S. Lamb. Brain weight, 53 ounces (1503 grams). 



89. Oliver, James Edward (J 830-1895), American mathematician (Cornell col- 

 lection), professor of mathematics at Cornell University. He was a philosophic 

 thinker, in not only the higher mathematics, but other sciences and ethics. He was 

 left-handed and absent-minded, but rapid in thought and action. For an account of 



