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child of his age should be 1,350. c¢. ¢.; that is, the real capacity is to what it 
should be as 8 to 27. Thirteen anthropoid apes measured by various ob- 
servers had an average capacity of 450 ¢. ¢. The capacity of Basse’s skull, 
then, is distinctly less than that of many anthropoid apes. 
The second anatomical peculiarity to which attention is called is that 
his head is not in equipoise. The distance from his chin to his throat is as 
great as my own, namely, 55 mm. The line from his occipital protuber- 
ance to his inter-scapular vertebre is almost a straight line; that is, there is 
almost no backward projection of his head from his neck. From his 
meatus auditorius externus to his eyebrows is 80 mm., to the back of his 
head from same place is but 54 mm.; while in a normal boy measured, the 
first distance was 88 mm., and the last 94 mm.; that is, in Basse the 
meatus is 26 mm. nearer the back than the front of his head, when in a 
normal boy it is 6 mm. nearer the front than the back. The weight of his 
large face in front is unbalanced by any backward extension of the head. 
The command which he hears oftenest is “stand up straight, Eddie; but 
his anatomy will forever forbid his obeying for long at a time. His fore- 
head recedes in the center 19.7 mm. for a height of 42 mm.; while just 
over the outer portions it recedes more rapidly still. The greatest trans- 
verse diameter of the skull is just over the ear in the postero-frontal and 
antera-parietal region; forward of this manifest ridge which reaches from 
ear to ear, the frontal portion of the cranium lessens rapidly. Back of this 
ridge there is a depression more marked on the right side than the left, 
Which has a depth of about 6 mm., while back of the ridge which forms 
the posterior border of this depression the skull again narrows very rap- 
idly. The application for his admission to the institution has the clause, 
“Face of good size, forehead recedes and back of head very smail.”’ 
His features, including the form of his head, are so monkey-like that it 
astonishes, if it does not shock, everyone who sees him for the first time. 
The boys call him ‘the little monkey face,” and when I asked him, at the 
suggestion of his attendant, ‘“‘Where is the little monkey face?” he at once 
pointed to his own face. Once when Santa Claus was distributing pres- 
ents, a toy monkey was among them; some one asked a little boy who ar- 
ticulates poorly, what it was, and he, after vainly trying to say monkey, 
pointed to Basse. 
There is not in his face a trace of the meaningless vacuity or idiocy 
which one always notes in the features of the feeble-minded. He has the 
satisfied, the benevolent. the sleepy, the lazy or sometimes the animated 
