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of two months, and was constantly occupied about 

 her, without observiug anything in her nature 

 which reminded him even remotely of the psycho- 

 logical conditions of apes. She was a degraded 

 specimen of humanity, differing in no respect from 

 the human type,* 



I also examined Margaret Becker, as well 

 as another microcephalic girl, who was in the 

 Berlin Asylum in the years 1868 and 1869. With 

 respect to the former and more animated being, I 

 have nothing essential to add to the information 



published by Virchow. Ida X , the other 



individual whom I examined at Berlin, was at the 

 time of my researches aged thirteen years and five 

 months. Her figure was slightly made and well 

 proportioned, while her profile reminded me to a 

 modified extent of that of the microcephalic Aztec, 

 and also of the heads represented in ancient sculpture 

 of Mayapan, Palenque, and Copan. I must not omit 

 to say that Ida had light blue eyes and fair, glossy 

 hair. She was altogether impassive ; could only 

 utter the syllables da-da ; and once betrayed a slight 

 sign of displeasure when the cold metal of the 

 measuring-rod was placed against the inner side 

 of her thigh, for the sake of obtaining the dimensions 

 of the different parts of her body. 



Virchow's information respecting Esther Jacob- 

 witz, of VVaschahel, is also extremely interesting. 

 She was a microcephalic girl of the age of fourteen, 

 and a Hungarian Jew by race.f Virchow remarks 



* Verhandlungen der herlinei-AnthropologischenGesellschaft, 1877. 

 t Ibid., p. 25 : 1878. 



