ANTHROPOLOGY. 



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Although every portion of the body must yield results of great im- 

 portance, and new structures are brought within the scope of study each 

 year, the skull and brain are still the parts upon which the most labor 

 is bestowed. As an example of the minuteness with which measure- 

 ments are prosecuted, tables are appended exhibiting the last results of 

 Broca's labors before he prematurely laid down the scalpel. The sub- 

 ject has received an elaborate treatment at the hands of his pupil, Dr. 

 L. Manouvrier, in the Bulletin of the Zoological Society of France, for 

 1882 ; as well as among German anthropologists. 



Paul Broca's tables of hrain-iceight, in grams. 



The mean brain- weight of all is about 1,325 grams for the males, and 

 1,142 for the females. The medium height for all is 1™.42 to 1".85. Other 

 tables are given in Broca's pai)er, in which age and sex are the criteria 

 in decades, also height and sex, sex and decades, weight and age, etc. 

 {Rev. d:'4.nllirop., v, pp. 7, 9.) 



The slownesB with which crania well authenticated are coHected makes 

 it vory desirable, if possible, to ol^tain measures upon the living subject 

 which can be reduced to the index of the skeleton. Efforts in this 

 direction have been made by Bic^tre, Stieda, Topinard, Virchow, Mik- 



