STUDY OF BRAINS OF SIX EMINENT SCIENTISTS AND SCHOLARS. 



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Name. 



Cope 



Webster . . . . 

 Bertillon .. . 

 (Schumann 



Liebig 



Gall 



(Gambetta. 



Age. 



57 

 70 

 62 

 46 

 70 

 70 

 44 



Cranial Capacity. 



Actual Brain- 

 weight. 



1645 



1999.! 



1553 



1510 



1.5.50 



1692 



1.382 



1545 

 1518 

 1398 

 1352 

 1352 

 1198 

 1160? 



Coefficient. 



.94 



.76 

 .89 

 .89 ) 



.875 

 .71 



.84?) 



Rather in the nature of an experiment than as a final tabulation of estimated 

 brain-weights of eminent men I here employ both Welcker's and Manouvrier's co- 

 efficients, the resulting figures being tabulated in parallel : 



Bolk's figures are based upon examinations of 90 male and 50 female brains and 

 skulls. Prior to the 50th year the cranio-encephalic coefficient is .93. This becomes 



