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found will ever be forthcoming, for, as we have already observed, we 

 know from Miss Fawcett's wide series of skull correlations that we have 

 practically chosen the organs of the highest correlation. Better data 

 for determining the equations will undoubtedly be available as further 

 craniological measurements are made, or as the great mass already 

 made are quantitatively reduced. 



In the last place we turn to the third problem : the reconstruction 

 of the capacity of the living head. The memoir contains tables of the 

 skull capacity of some sixty men, and also of some thirty women, 

 whose relative intellectual ability can be more or less roughly ap- 

 preciated. It would be impossible to assert any marked degree of 

 correlation between the skull capacities of these individuals and the 

 current appreciation of their intellectual capacities. One of the most 

 distinguished of Continental anthropologists has less skull capacity than 

 50 per cent, of the women students of Bedford College ; one of our 

 leading English anatomists than 25 per cent, of the same students. 

 There will, of course, be errors in our probable determinations, but 

 different methods of appreciation lead to sensibly like results, and 

 although we are dealing with skull capacity, and not brain weight, 

 there is, we hold, in our data material enough to cause those to pause 

 who associate relative brain weight either in the individual or the sex 

 with relative intellectual power. The correlation, if it exists, can 

 hardly be large, and the true source of intellectual ability will, we 

 are convinced, have to be sought elsewhere, in the complexity of the 

 convolutions, in the variety and efficiency of the commissures, rather 

 than in mere size or weight. 



"Total Eclipse of the Sun, May 28, 1900. Preliminary Account 

 of the Observations made by the Solar Physics Observatory 

 Eclipse Expedition and the Officers and Men of H.M.S. 

 1 Theseus,' at Santa Pola." By Sir NORMAN LOCKYER, K.C.B., 

 F.E.S. Eeceived June 22, 1900. Eead at Joint Meeting of 

 the Eoyal and Eoyal Astronomical Societies, June 28, 1900. 



The observing station selected for my party was determined upon 

 from information supplied by the Hydrographer, Eear-Admiral Sir W. 

 J. L. Wharton, E.N., K.C.B., F.E.S. Santa Pola appeared likely to 

 meet the requirements of a man-of-war, and without such assistance as 

 a man-of-war can render, the manipulation of long focus prismatic 

 cameras in eclipse observations in a strange country is impracticable. 



Santa Pola lies very near the central line of the eclipse, and good 

 anchorage was available, protected from some winds. 



