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weight of brain would fall distinctly below that of the 



Negro. 



The brain of a Bushwoman examined by Professor Marshall was 

 computed to be 31'5oz., while he has calculated that the brain of 

 an average Englishwoman of about the same age and stature 

 would have weighed not less than 40 oz. The brain of another 

 Bush woman, commonly known as the " Hottentot Venus," who was 

 examined by Gratiolet, is said to have been a trifle larger, though 

 the exact weight was not ascertained. Lastly though first 

 in order of time Dr. Qua.in recorded the weight of a Bosjes girl, 

 fourteen years of age, and forty inches in height, as 34 oz., or 963 

 grammes. This, as Dr. Thurnam points out, " falls short even of 

 the average weight of the brain of the female English child between 

 two and four years of age, in whom, according to the tables of Dr. 

 Boy d, the brain- weight is 34'97 oz. (991 grammes), and the average 

 stature 31*6 inches." Seeing, moreover, as Dr. Boyd's tables also 

 show, that by the end of the seventh year the brain of the female 

 has attained to at least ten-elevenths of its full weight, the brain of 

 this Bosjes girl is not likely to have been much behind the weight 

 to which it might have attained in the adult condition. 



The Chinese are representatives of the most ancient 

 and persistent, if not the most advanced civilization of the 

 world, and quite recently the brain-weights of eleven adult 

 males and of five adult females have been recorded by 

 Dr. C. Clapham.* " With the exception of one indi- 

 vidual they all belonged," he says, " to the ' Coolie,' or 

 lowest grade of Chinese society," yet their brain-weights 

 were remarkably high, when it is considered that they 

 w r ere in no way picked individuals, but mere chance vic- 

 tims of the great typhoon which raged at Hong Kong in 

 September, 1874. The possible influence of Congestion, 

 owing to the mode of death, in slightly raising these 

 brain -weights must, however, not be forgotten. 



* "Journ. of the Anthropolog. Inst.,"vol. vii. p. 90. 



