260 Berry cmd Biichvcr : 



effect tlif vortical hcifrht mefisuroiiicnts least, inasimich as in this 

 rneasuremeut a fixed point is employed ■which could not under any 

 cicumstances he effected by oedema. Avhilst the other jioint, heinf^ 

 the vertex of the head upon the scalp, would Ije })ut little sAvollen 

 no matter how great the oedema. The l)readth would most clearly 

 reflect the influence of oedema, inasmucli as the callipers toucli 

 upon both sides the temporal regions where the layers of the scalj* 

 arc more numerous, and are in the direct channel of the v. jugu- 

 laris externa. For somewhat similar reasons the length would 

 occupy an intermediate position in any form of oedema, us here 

 the callipejs touch two parts liablt; to lie swollen, but those two 

 parts are not so nearly in the direct path of venous channels as 

 are those for l)readth, and hence we should expect an oedema of 

 the head to affect breadth measurements most^ heig?it measure- 

 ments least, with length measurement in the intei'iiiediate- position. 



For all of these reasons we finally determined to correct the read- 

 ings obtained upon tlie Melbourne casts by the deduction of 7 mm. 

 from the length, 10 mm. from the breadth, and 2 mm. fi'om the 

 height, and we are of opinion that in making such deductions we 

 have been guided by thoroughly i-ational, scientific and medical 

 reasoning. v 



Having thus determined what seemed to us to be an accurate 

 mode of coi-recting our readings npon the casts, we recalculated 

 tlie cubic capacity of the brain of these 3.j criminals, and the 

 results so attained are i?et forth in the extreme right hand column 

 of Table I. alongside those obtained fiom the uncori'ccted read- 

 ings. As it will be remend)ci'ed that in Lee's foninda, Xo. 1-1, 

 eleven millimetres is unifoi-ndy detlucted from length, breadth 

 and height, it follows that in order to obtain the corrected cubic 

 capacity we liave, in addition to this deduction, also had to deduct 

 7 mm. f(jr the length. 10 mm. for bi'eadth, and 2 mm. for height. 

 In other words, Ihe calculations obtained in the "cubic capacity 

 corrected" column ai-e athieved by tlie use of Lee's formula. No. 

 14. with 18 substracted from the lengths, 21 from the l)readths and 

 1.". from the heights. Tn this same Table L, are also shown the 

 names of the mnrderei-s h;ii\ged. ihe dates of their execution, the 

 lengths, breadths and heights as recorded by us upon the casts, 

 the v\\\nv ca]>acity of brain as calculated from the uncorrected 

 figures of the casts, as well as the final an<I more neai-1y correct 

 leadings obtained after the necessary corrections. "We have ar- 

 ranged them, not in chronological order, but in the order of tlieir 

 cid)ic capacity of l)rain from the low(>st to the highest. It will be 

 noted thai the notorious " Deeming " oeeujdcs the second lowest 



