STUDY OF BRAINS OF SIX EMINENT SCIENTISTS AND SCHOLARS. 197 



93. KoLAR, Josef Georg (1812-1896), Bohemian dramatist and poet. The 

 autopsy was performed l^y Prof. Hlava, of Prague. The brain weighed 1300 grams ; 

 there was marked age-atrophy. The convolutions are quite sinuous. The subfrontal 

 gyre shows six bends on the left and 5 such on the right side. The skull was later 

 exhumed and studied by Matiegka. Matiegka : Ueber das Hirngewicht des Menschen. 

 Sitzber. d. k. hbhm. Ges. d. Wiss., 1902, pp. 38-39. Matiegka : Telesne ostatky Jana 

 Kollara, Vestnik krdl. czes. sj)oI. nduk., 1904. 



94. Cheve, (?-1896) (Paris collection). A member of 

 the "societe mutuelle d'autopsie." The brain- weight, communicated by G. Herve was 

 1365 grams. 



95. GuARDiA, Jose-Maria (1830-1897) (Paris collection). A member of the 

 " sociHe mutuelle d'autopsie." The brain-weight, communicated by G. Herve, was 1272 

 grams. Guardia's age was 67 years. 



96. McKnight, George (1840-1897), American physician (Cornell collection), an 

 eminent physician and writer of sonnets. According to his son some of his sonnets 

 were highly praised by Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Sargent included some of them 

 in the "Cyclopedia of British and American Poetry" (Harper's). The brain is in the 

 Cornell collection (No. 3531). Prof. Wilder states that it weighed 1545 grams. 



97. DE Mortillet, Gabriel (1821-1898), French anthropologist and ethnologist 

 (Paris collection). The brain-weight, communicated by G. Herve, was 1480 grams. 



98. Seguin, Edward ('harles (1843-1898), American physician (neurologist) of 

 French descent (author's collection). Son of Edouard Seguin (No. 51 of this series). 

 The autopsy took place on February 21, 1898, and was made by Dr. J. S. Thacher 

 assisted by Drs. J. Arthur Booth and E. C. Spitzka. Drs. Hallock and Pooley were 

 present. The brain was removed about 30 hours after death, and was found to be 

 normal. It was divided into its principal parts and each weighed separately as folio ws: 



Right hemicerebruni 642 grams. 



Left hemicerebruni 653 " 



Cerebellum 140 " 



Isthmus 67 '' 



Total weight after dissection and drainage 1,502 " 



After nearly three years immersion in a mixture of alcohol and formalin the 

 brain had lost 13 per cent, of its original weight. The brain was studied and a 

 morphological description published by the author. Edw. Anthony Spitzka: "A pre- 

 liminary communication of a study of the brains of two distinguished physicians, 

 father and son." Proc. Assoc. Amer. Anat., 1900 ; Philadelphia Med. Jour., April 

 6, 1901. 



