STUDY OF BRAINS OF SIX EMINENT SCIENTISTS AND SCHOLARS. _ 203 



occipital regions, and the notable projection of the cerebrum over the cerebellum (the 

 " al'toverhang," SO to speak). The postorbital limbus is well marked on both sides. 

 Edw. Antliony Spitzka : " Postmortem examination of the late George Francis Train," 

 The Dailij Medical (New York), Feb. 15, 1904. 



122. WiNCHELL, Alexander, American geologist and educator. The brain was 

 weighed by Dr. W. J. Herdman, Ann Arbor, who states that very accurate scales were 

 not at hand at the time the autopsy was made. The weight was recorded as 58i 

 ounces (1666 grams). Dr. Mills publishes some photographs and comments on the 

 morphology of the cerebrum. The subparietal regions are especially complex, partic- 

 ularly on the right side. C. K. Mills: "The Concrete Concept Area," Medical News, 

 November 5, 1904, pp. 868-869. 



123. (Swedish statesman; not named) (Stockholm collection). The identity of 

 the statesman whose brain is described by Retzius is not revealed in the published 

 account, owing to the refusal of the sons of the deceased to accord permission to 

 divulge the name. Retzius had, however, known him well since his youth and he 

 presents a few general remarks concerning the subject's intellectual capacity. The 

 man showed great aptitude for learning early in life, was very successful in his studies 

 at school and under the faculty of law. He rapidly advanced to the position of min- 

 ister of finance (age 37), and three years after to that of prime minister. He was a 

 provincial governor up to the time of his death at the age of 53. He is described as a 

 highly gifted jurist, statesman, thinker, orator and philanthropist. Of large stature, 

 dolichocephalic and of blond complexion, he belonged to the genuine Swedish type. 

 His brain, removed on the second day after death by Dr. Curt Wallis, weighed 1489 

 grams. It was preserved in a mixture of 3 per cent, potassium bichromate and 2 per 

 cent, formal, suspended in the fluid by a string tied to the basilar artery. The form 

 of the brain was thus well preserved. The cerebrum is well formed and richly con- 

 voluted. The association areas exhibit a richness and complexity of fissuration, but 

 there is hardly any noteworthy characteristic or redundancy of development in any 

 particular territory. Nor were such findings to be expected. In life the man showed 

 a well-balanced intellect ; his aptitudes were good in all directions, not in any special 

 direction alone. Endowed with an excellent memory and good reasoning powers, he 

 showed great skill and clearness of thought in parliamentary debate, without neces- 

 sarily availing himself of purely rhetorical art. While not naturally devoted to any 

 particular branch of the sciences, creative arts or human action, he could familiarize 

 himself with all of these in the way of facile general understanding. This harmonious 

 construction of the mental abilities is in no small measure correlative with that 

 species of symmetry which this brain exhibited, and which is certainly exceptional in 



