STUDY OF BRAINS OF SIX EMINENT SCIENTISTS AND SCHOLARS. 205 



130. WiSTAR, Isaac Jones (1827-1905), soldier, scientist and philanthropist (Wis- 

 tar collection). General Wistar, the founder of the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and 

 Biology at Philadelphia, made the following bequest : " I bequeath to the Wistar In- 

 stitute of Anatomy and Biology my right arm, said to be a desirable specimen of gun- 

 shot anchylosis, and also ni}' brain, to be removed by said institute promptly after my 

 death." General Wistar's brain weighed 49 ounces (avoir.) or 1389 grams. 



131. KoNiNG, Naret, musical composer. A director at tlie opera at Frankfurt 

 a/M. The brain was described by S. Auerbach, who finds in the considerable breadth 

 and configuration of the (supra) marginal gyre, as well as the adjacent portion of the 

 supertemporal, an expression of the greater aptitude for the multitudinous associa- 

 tions in the auditory sphere which distinguished from others less musical. S. Auer- 

 bach : Beitrag zur Lokalisation des musikalischen Talentes im Gehirn und am Schadel, 

 Archiv fur Anatomie und Physiologie, Anatomische Abteilung, 1906, pp. 197-230, 

 Plates XII-XVII. 



132. BuLow, Hans von. Musical composer. This brain is referred to by Auer- 

 bach (cited above) as being in the possession of Prof L. Edinger and his article con- 

 tains drawings of this brain. The morphologic configuration is characterized by a 

 similar redundancy of development in the auditory association area. 



133. Mendeleeff, Dmitri (1834-1907), Russian chemist. Professor Bechterew 

 has examined the brain of the late Professor Mendeleeff. It is said to weigh more 

 than 1200 grams, and to be remarkable for the number of its convolutions. Science, 

 Vol. XXV, No. 638, March 22, 1 907, p. 479. 



134. KovALEVSKY, SoNYA (1850-1891), Russian mathematician (Stockholm col- 

 lection). Mme. Sonya Kovalevsky (nee Sophie Corvin-Kronkovsky) was a pupil of 

 KirchhofF, Konigsberger, Helmholtz and DuBois-Reymond. She wrote theses on 

 mathematical subjects in French and German, spending much of her time in Heidel- 

 berg, Berlin, Paris and Stockholm. She was appointed to a chair in the University 

 of Stockholm and here added the Swedish language to the others which she had 

 already mastered. Her brain is a well developed one of the feminine, eury-gyrencep- 

 halic type ; i. e., it is smaller and less complexly marked than the usual male brain. 

 The marginal gyre, especially upon the right side, is of particular interest, for in its 

 development it resembles the brain of the mathematician Gylden, also studied by 

 Retzius. The brain was not weighed when removed from the skull. After a period 

 of four years in alcohol its weight was 1108 grams. Retzius estimates the original 

 weight to have been about 1385 grams. G.!Retzius : Biol. Untersuch., N. F., IX, 1900. 

 pp. 1-16. 



135. WiNSLOw, Caroline B. (?-1896), American physician (Cornell collection). 



