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Chudzinski obtained them, and one of the brains, that of “ Paulus 
Abraham,” was in such an advanced state of decomposition that its 
weight could not be ascertained. Chudzinski made plaster-casts of the 
brains, and presented these to the Parisian Anthropological Society on 
May 5, 1881. 
Two of the Eskimos were young men, the other was a girl. They 
were: ; F 
“Tobias Ignatius,” male, age 23, died January 13. Brain-weight, 
1398 grams. 
2. “ Paulus Abraham, 
unknown. 
“Ulrika Henocq,” female, age 24, sister of “ Paulus Abraham,” 
died January 16. Brain-weight, 1256 grams. 
Chudzinski nowhere states whence these Eskimos came. One must 
assume that they were from Greenland, and from an inferior tribe, 
differing in many respects from the inhabitants around Smith’s Sound. 
Chudzinski states emphatically that with the considerable volume of 
the cerebrum of his Eskimos, there is a “notable simplicity in the 
fissural and gyral pattern”; not only are the gyres said to be quite 
broad and little marked by “tertiary fissures and divisions, but they are 
only slightly flexuous.” This simplicity, he maintains, is especially 
marked in the frontal lobes, which are rather “flattened from above 
below.” The general form was, according to Chudzinski, that of a doli- 
chocephalic brain. The frontal lobe he describes as relatively small, 
while the parietal especially was considerably well developed. The 
frontal gyres were of “very simple configuration—especially in ‘ Tobias 
Ignatius, ” 
” male, age 35, died January 14. Brain-weight 
Hrdlicka has commented upon this marked difference between the 
specimens described by Chudzinski and the one by himself, and says 
with good reason that this dissimilarity makes “a future acquisition of 
Eskimo brains very desirable.” 
BrizF History oF THE BRAINS HERE Drscrrpep.—The three indi- 
viduals whose brains are here presented, “ Nooktah,” his wife “ Atana,” 
and “ Avia,” belonged to a party of six Eskimos who were brought to 
New York in 1896 by Lieutenant Peary, from the neighborhood of 
Smith’s Sound. The other three were “ Kishu,”’ chief of the tribe, his 
son ‘‘Menee,” and a young man whose name is unknown. The last 
one was sent back to Smith’s Sound. “ Menee” is now about fourteen 
or fifteen years old, having recovered from an attack of incipient pul- 
monary tuberculosis. “Kishu” died in Bellevue Hospital, New York 
