Robert Bennett Bean. 409 
grams; the largest, 1275 grams; the smallest, 915 grams. The lot of 
brains includes a larger number from high-class Negroes than from high- 
class Caucasians, and a larger number from low-class Caucasians than 
from low-class Negroes, this being especially true in regard to the Negro 
males and the Caucasian females. This statement is based on the follow- 
ing facts: 
1. There is a larger number of deaths resulting from acute illnesses 
and from accidents among the Negroes, giving a larger number of brains 
from normal individuals.” “ 
2. That a larger number of Negro bodies are regularly disposed of to 
anatomists indicates less respect for the dead among Negroes, and it fol- 
lows that more of the better class of Negroes would be received, since 
the whites greatly outnumber the blacks in Baltimore. 
3. It is weil known that only the lowest classes of whites are un- 
claimed, especially among the women, who are apt to be prostitutes, or 
depraved, or the like, while among Negroes it is known that even the 
better class neglect their dead unless provision has been made for their 
care after death. 
4. It is a well attested fact that the Negroes are at present roaming 
over the country without fixed abode in greater numbers than the whites 
and this might result in many stray unclaimed bodies of the better class 
of Negroes being turned over to the anatomists, and finally, 
5. Many Mulattoes and mixed bloods are included among the Negroes. 
So then the brain weights do not really represent the exact racial dif- 
ference between the Negro and the Caucasian, but do perhaps show that 
the low class Caucasian has a larger brain than a better class Negro. Many 
of the brains are from the senile, the demented, or those dying of wasting 
diseases, which would tend to make the average weight lower than among 
normal individuals. The total stature of the Caucasian ex- 
ceeds that of the Negro, and the total body weight is slightly greater in 
the Caucasian, the stature and body weight being greater in the males 
than in the females. The majority of the Caucasian males and Negro 
females were between the ages of 30 and 50, the majority of the others 
under 35 or over 45. The percentage curve of brain weight for the two 
races shows the greater number of Negro brains to be about 1100 to 1200 
grams, the greater number of the Caucasian brains being 1300 grams and 
over, with a drop in the number of Negro brains at 1300 grams and an 
increase at 1400 grams, indicating a mixture of Caucasian and Negro 
in the largest brains. There are on record the weights of less than 100 
Negro brains,” perhaps, with the exception of 380 weighed by Hunt and 
Russell,” who include Mulattoes and mixed bloods, as I have done. The 
