Size of the Brain in various Races of Man. 265 
Large as this collection already is, a glance at the table 
will shew that it is very deficient in some divisions of the 
human family. For example, it contains no crania of the Es- 
quimaux, Fuegians, Californians, or Brazilians. The skulls 
of the great divisions of the Caucasian and Mongolian races 
are also too few for satisfactory comparison, and the Sclavo- 
nic and Tchudic (Finnish) nations, together with the Mongol 
tribes of Northern Asia and China, are among the especial 
desiderata of this collection. 
Among the facts elicited by this investigation are the fol- 
lowing :— 
1. The Teutonic or German race, embracing, as it does, 
the Anglo-Saxons, Anglo-Americans, Anglo-Irish, &e., pos- 
sess the largest brain of any other people. 
2. The nations having the smallest heads, are the ancient 
Peruvians and Australians. 
3. The barbarous tribes of America possess a much larger 
brain than the demi-civilized Peruvians or Mexicans. 
4. The ancient Egyptians, whose civilization antedates 
that of all other people, and whose country has been justly 
called “ the cradle of the arts and sciences,’ have the least- 
sized brain of any Caucasian nation, excepting the Hindoos ; 
for the small number of Semitic heads will hardly permit 
them to be admitted into the comparison. 
5. The Negro brain is nine cubic inches less than the Teu- 
tonic, and three cubic inches larger than the ancient Egyp- 
tian. 
6. The largest brain in the series is that of a Dutch gentle- 
man, and gives 114 cubic inches; the smallest head is an old 
Peruvian, of 58 cubic inches; and the difference between 
these two extremes is no less than 56 cubic inches. 
7. The brain of the Australian and Hottentot fall far be- 
low the Negro, and measures precisely the same as the an- 
cient Peruvian. 
_ 8. This extended series of measurements fully confirms 
the fact stated by me in the Crania Americana, that the vari- 
ous artificial modes of distorting the cranium, occasion no 
diminution of its internal capacity, and consequently do not 
affect the size of the brain. 
