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Ethnological Table, derived from 405 Autopsies of White and .Negro 

 Brains. Made under the direction of Surgeon Ira Russell, llth 

 Massachusetts Volunteers. 1 



Ta&Ze o/ Weights of the EncepJialon, in ounces, av., in Individuals, in 

 some of whom the Degree of Intelligence is more or less accurately 

 known, 



1. Cromwell, 2 aged 59 (not accepted by physiologists) 



2. Byron, 3 aged 36 (not accepted by physiologists) 



3. Cuvier, aged 63 



4. Abercrombie, aged 63 



82-29 oz. 

 79-00 " 

 64-33 " 

 63-00 " 



1 SAXFORD B. HUNT, The Negro as a Soldier. Quarterly Journal of Psycho- 

 logical Medicine, Xew York, 1867, vol. i., p. 182. 



2 Weight taken from WAGNER, Fonctions du cerveau. Journal de la phy- 

 sioloyie, Paris, 1861, tome iv., p. 556. Soemmerring (De Corporis Humani 

 Fali'ica, Trajecti ad Moenum, 1798, tomus iv., p. -38) states that he examined 

 the skull of Cromwell, and thinks, from the size of the cranial cavity, that the 

 weight of the brain ordinarily given must be inaccurate. 



3 Dissection of Lord Byron. Medico- Chirurgical Review, London, 1825, vol. 

 .i. (American Reprint), p. 164. The statement is quoted from the Gazette de 

 sante, 25 August, 1824, that " tiie cerebmm and cerebellum weighed six medi- 

 cinal pounds" This equals 79 oz. av., less 25 grains. This statement is made 

 on the authority of Dr. Bruno, and is certainly inaccurate, especially as many 

 biographers of Byron state that his head was unusually small. 



