370 THE SIZE AND WEIGHT 



Name. Age. Ounces. Grammes. 



3. Schiller, Poet , 46 63 1785 



4. Goodsir, Anatomist ... 53 57'5 1630 



5. Spurzheim, Physician . . 56 55'06 1559 



6. James Simpson, Physician . 59 54 1533 



7. Dirichlet, Mathematician . . 54 53'6 1520 



8. De Moray, Statesman . . 50 53'6 1520 



9. Daniel Webster, Statesman . 70 53'5 1516 



10. Campbell, Lord Chancellor . 80 53'5 1516 



11. Chauncey Wright, Physicist . 45 53'5 1516 



12. Agassiz, Naturalist . . .66 53'3 1512 



13. Chalmers, Celebrated Preacher . 67 53 1502 



14. Fuchs, Pathologist ... 52 52'9 1499 



15. De Morgan, Mathematician . 73 5275 1496 



16. Gauss, Mathematician . . 78 52 '6 1492 



17. Dupuytren, Surgeon ... 58 507 1436 



18. Grote, Historian ... 76 4975 1410 



19. Whewell, Philosopher. . .71 49 1390 



20. Hermann, Philologist . . 51 47'9 1358 



21. Hughes Bennett, Physician . 63 47 1332 



22. Tiedemann, Anatomist . . 80 44'2 1254 



23. Hausmann, Mineralogist . . 77 43'2 1226 



It is worthy of note that in this list, in addition to 

 the great proportion of high Brain-weights, there are also 

 four of distinguished men, which, even after allowance has 

 been made for some amount of atrophy consequent upon 

 age in two of them, would more or less distinctly fall 

 beneath the mere average weight of 49 oz. 



The facts set forth in the above table as well as those 

 detailed in the last section, are principally of interest 

 from their bearing upon the much and long- debated 

 question as to the existence of any necessary or invariable 

 connection between mere size or weight of Brain and 

 Intelligence. Upon this subject a few brief remarks may 

 now be made. 



In the first place then, it seems perfectly plain from the 

 facts recorded that there is no necessary or invariable 



