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THE EXTERNAL CONFIGURATION 



evolved forms of the same organ, such as are common 

 among representatives of the higher civilized races. 



The brain of the so-called ' Hottentot Venus ' was care- 

 fully examined 

 and figured 

 by Gratiolet. 

 Though her in- 

 telligence was 

 not notably 

 defective, the 

 convolutions of 

 her brain were 

 relatively very 

 little compli- 

 cated. After 

 commenting 

 upon this fact, 

 Gratiolet adds : 

 " But what 

 strikes one, at 

 once, is the sim- 

 plicity, the re- 

 gular arrange- 



FIG. 134. -Brain of the Hottentot Venus, upper aspect. Hient of the 



(Vogt, after Gratiolet.) two C0 nvolu- 



L, Longitudinal fissure ; R, fissure of Rolando ; V, vertical . i i 



or perpendicular fissure; 0, occipital lobe, a 1 , a 2 , a3, Upper, tionS which 



middle and lower folds of frontal convolutions ; A, ascending \ 

 frontal, and , ascending parietal convolutions; 61, 6 2 , 63, C( 

 tipper, middle and lower folds of parietal convolutions ; d 3 , superior anff 

 lower fold of occipital convolutions. 



of the front 



lobe. These folds, if those of the two hemispheres 

 compared, present, as we have already pointed out, 

 almost perfect symmetry, such as is never exhibit 



by normal brains of the Caucasian race Tl 



regularity this symmetry, involuntarily recalls the regu- 



